Job Prospects if taking a class in summer after graduation?

chrisw
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:32:53 +0000

I can’t speak to accounting, but I know that the nationally recognized consultancies and banks are already done recruiting for the class of 2013. Right now, you are left with smaller and niche firms that are doing late fall recruiting (I didn’t interview for my job until November, but that was extremely late in the game for fall recruiting). What this means is that if you are to land a job at a smaller or niche firm, it is likely that you will not start as part of a recruiting class, and that means that they are going to want to get you going as soon as possible. While I wish I could say that taking a summer class wouldn’t hurt you, that is simply not the case.

Keep this in mind… even if you do badly in a course this fall, if you are putting in your resumes now, you aren’t including the fall’s grades, so it will have no impact on your job prospects. However, as soon as your grades appear on your transcript at the end of the semester, you must update your GPA. Get to applying now, and as long as you pass your difficult class, it may have no impact on your job prospects.