Do you still put your leaving cert results on your CV?

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 12-10-2017 12:32PM #1

I was just looking over a CV for a friend who wants some advice. She's in her forties, with lots of experience relevant to the job she's going for, plus has gone on loads of training courses also related to her area of work. She still had her leaving cert results listed and I suggested that they're no longer really relevant.

But it just made me wonder at what point people tend to stop putting them on CVs and job applications?
I think I only bothered for the first few years after leaving school when I still didn't have much in the way of experience or qualifications.

Pelvis · 12-10-2017 12:36PM

I've never put leaving results on a CV.

boardsuser1 · 12-10-2017 12:37PM

Not the results themselves, just that i sat the exams and the year.

Bitches Be Trypsin · 12-10-2017 12:37PM

I do, but I'm considering removing them

valoren · 12-10-2017 12:38PM

I got a bronze medal in the egg and spoon race during the sports day in June 1986. Definitely CV worthy.

12-10-2017 12:39PM

Yes, although with less emphasis than I did when I started out as a graduate (I'm 30).

As a general rule of thumb, if you did well in the Leaving Cert, keep a brief summary of your results on there until you've clocked up 2 pages of more relevant achievements.

As an extension of that, if you're still talking about your Leaving Cert results by the time you're 40, you probably don't have many work-performance achievements behind you, and may want to look into that.

If you did badly in the Leaving Cert, just drop it altogether and focus on other achievements. Nobody will be too concerned, unless you're still in college or are very young.

OldMrBrennan83 · 12-10-2017 12:41PM

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Mint Sauce · 12-10-2017 12:41PM

Tegan Hot Leper wrote: »

I was just looking over a CV for a friend who wants some advice. She's in her forties, with lots of experience relevant to the job she's going for, plus has gone on loads of training courses also related to her area of work. She still had her leaving cert results listed and I suggested that they're no longer really relevant.

But it just made me wonder at what point people tend to stop putting them on CVs and job applications?
I think I only bothered for the first few years after leaving school when I still didn't have much in the way of experience or qualifications.

I did GCSEs and ALevels. First few years after I finished, I listed all the pass marks, then just mentioned the A-C GCSE grades and all the Alevels. Now its just the mentioned that I did them and when/where.

The fact that I finished my Alevels 20 years ago, and I have done further/third level since, means that they really mean nothing now. My Employment, and my work skills are are the emphasis now, along with the further/third level qualifications.

whoopsadoodles · 12-10-2017 12:42PM

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Not the results themselves, just that i sat the exams and the year.

Have never even put the year. Just the school and results available on request.

12-10-2017 12:43PM

Dropped it in my early twenties. It's not relevant at all.

Harika · 12-10-2017 12:45PM

I am old enough to have more work experience on it, than anything else. I only list that I finished college in 2006. That should make it clear that I did the leaving cert. And by adding all the activities before college, the CV would get far too long.

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 12-10-2017 12:46PM

I have friends who work in the Civil Service and everytime they go for a promotion they have to list their leaving cert results on the standard application form. It drives them mad. Most of them have degrees and professional qualifications at this stage, and their LC results are just not relevant.

Harika · 12-10-2017 12:48PM

Tegan Hot Leper wrote: »

I have friends who work in the Civil Service and everytime they go for a promotion they have to list their leaving cert results on the standard application form. It drives them mad. Most of them have degrees and professional qualifications at this stage, and their LC results are just not relevant.

That's a problem that occurs very often, the application forms are one size fits all, no matter if you are fresh from school or close to retirement, and you have to enter everything, even if it makes no sense anymore.

theteal · 12-10-2017 12:49PM

34 years old. Living in the UK since 2011. BSc. Multiple industry certifications.

No. Need the space for actual useful/relevant info.

12-10-2017 12:51PM

If you're under 21 and going for your first "serious" job or a third level/training course then yes. But after that it's not necessary, just say where you were educated, when, "up to leaving cert level", and can provide results on request. Once you have a few years experience or higher qualifications under your belt no one is interested in your leaving cert, it's only to get you started in life.

The only time any employer would actually question anything is if you were to let's say claim you got an A+ in honours English, be hired in a role that requires strong written communication skills, and then have them discover you have absolutely no command of grammar and spelling. Or claim a high grade in French but draw a complete blank the moment a French customer walks in the door. That sort of thing. Other than that no one is interested in digging back that far for a candidate past their early 20's.

Mint Sauce · 12-10-2017 12:51PM

Harika wrote: »

That's a problem that occurs very often, the application forms are one size fits all, no matter if you are fresh from school or close to retirement, and you have to enter everything, even if it makes no sense anymore.

It is pretty daft, when you have reached a certain stage of life. I would have to sit down and think, and try and remember all my secondary school and 6th form qualifications.

H3llR4iser · 12-10-2017 12:52PM

After 17 years of work, I usually don't put any education on the CV anymore - I'm at the point where I'm starting to drop the first couple of jobs I had as well, as they're hardly relevant to the market of today.

Have to say that working in software engineering, things become outdated way quicker than in some other professional lines.

Pawwed Rig · 12-10-2017 12:55PM

No. It would seem daft listing my C in ordinary level biology from 1995 when going for a finance job in 2017. I keep my CV to 2 pages so space is a premium.

OfTheMarsWongs · 12-10-2017 12:55PM

Loveinapril wrote: »

I don't remember my Leaving Cert results. I don't think I even have a copy of them anymore.

I did my LC 20 years ago. Got a job in the civil service a couple of years ago and after the interview etc, they requested a copy of my LC results. Lucky I had them in a box. They only gave 5 working days to return the proof of LC results and degree.

valoren · 12-10-2017 01:03PM

OfTheMarsWongs wrote: »

I did my LC 20 years ago. Got a job in the civil service a couple of years ago and after the interview etc, they requested a copy of my LC results. Lucky I had them in a box. They only gave 5 working days to return the proof of LC results and degree.

A nice little earner for the 'service'. Think it's €14.50 to request a copy.

somesoldiers · 12-10-2017 01:35PM

no way at 40+

Hector Bellend · 12-10-2017 02:32PM

No I'm 40 and have three degrees.

LC results no longer relevant

The_Kew_Tour · 12-10-2017 02:35PM

Have not done that since I was 22.

I have 2 degrees now, so thankfully that's all I need, plus my 2 Previous Jobs.

LordSutch · 12-10-2017 03:05PM

Haven't mentioned my leaving cert on my CV since I was about thirty. Job/work experience courses & Uni yes, all mentioned in detail, but my leaving cert - No.

The LC becomes less & less relevant the older you get.

_Kaiser_ · 12-10-2017 03:09PM

Have just "Leaving Certificate" and the year and school. Nothing more than that.

dudara · 12-10-2017 03:11PM

They were probably on the very first versions of my CV many years ago. But now, my education section lists my B.Sc. Ph.D. and other professional quals that I've acquired since. I think you can infer I sat some form of the Leaving from the fact that I went to university

lawred2 · 12-10-2017 03:13PM

Tegan Hot Leper wrote: »

I was just looking over a CV for a friend who wants some advice. She's in her forties, with lots of experience relevant to the job she's going for, plus has gone on loads of training courses also related to her area of work. She still had her leaving cert results listed and I suggested that they're no longer really relevant.

But it just made me wonder at what point people tend to stop putting them on CVs and job applications?
I think I only bothered for the first few years after leaving school when I still didn't have much in the way of experience or qualifications.

nah

just LC, year and school

keith_sixteen · 12-10-2017 03:15PM

I'm 35 and living in central Europe. No reference to the LC whatsoever. Degree gets one line near the bottom. Tend not to list hobbies / interests either.

In one role I had, I did have access to a lot of CVs. I was astounded to see people putting things like "playstation" under hobbies.

B.A._Baracus · 12-10-2017 03:15PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Dropped it in my early twenties. It's not relevant at all.

Exactly!
It can be used up to then to pad/blow your cv out.

brevity · 12-10-2017 03:20PM

I did ****ing awful in the Leaving Cert so there was no way I was ever putting down my results.

Never understood the need once you have proper qualifications/experience.

Pawwed Rig · 12-10-2017 03:28PM

brevity wrote: »

Never understood the need once you have proper qualifications/experience.

I was rejected from a job once based on my leaving cert results despite having a directly relevant first class honours degree.

Do you still put your leaving cert results on your CV?

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