🇸🇬 Singapore 20h ago · Annabelle Chang

Fresh Grads Have It Hard Enough. Leave Their GPAs Out of Hiring.

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Fresh Grads Have It Hard Enough. Leave Their GPAs Out of Hiring.
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Annabelle Chang is an undergraduate at Singapore Management University. In this op-ed, she argues that employers should be barred from asking for grades during hiring—a push Singapore might need to ease its obsession with academic results.







Top image: Albert Vincent Wu via Unsplash



Grades are supposedly not everything, until one applies for a job. Telling students—especially the ones about to enter the workforce—that grades don’t define their future is hard to reconcile with reali

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