How do employers feel about failed subjects ?

usurptheczar

Okay, so I'm pretty much guaranteed to fail Maths miserably. I dropped out of school, couldn't get a job and back in January I spontaneously decided to do my Leaving Cert. I'm doing 6 subjects, I feel pretty good about the others, but with Maths going through the old exams is like looking at gibberish. I can't do it, at all. I bit off more than I can chew. I'm only doing my Leaving so I can improve my chances of getting a job but now that I'm going to fail Maths I think I've f*cked it up. How do employers feel about failed subjects, Maths specifically. I'm not actually bad at 'everyday' Maths, but when it gets into the 'real' Maths bull****, I don't know anything.

bucketybuck

When reading CV's I barely glance at the leaving cert results, you sorta assume that everybody has them and the final results aren't too important, and rarely relevant to the job at hand.

In saying that however, if I noticed that the candidate could not pass leaving cert maths that would be a massive red flag to me. No point making the distinction between "everyday" and "real" maths, its just the leaving cert so its all simple mathematics. If the candidate can't pass that then can I really trust them with any complicated aspects of the work we do?

Maybe they could be trusted but its the CV stage and there are dozens of applicants, so why even take the chance?

Failed maths is a problem, and I strongly advise working your bollix off to get it rather than glibly accepting that you are just going to fail.

Peregrine

Moved to Work & Jobs as I don't think you'll get responses from the perspective you need in the Leaving Cert forum. The Work & Jobs forum charter now applies.