Error on Cv and now have an interview, do I come clean before?

Some OTT advice from people on this 🙄 What qualifications did the JD specify you need for the job? If it SPECIFIED Maths GCSE grade C, then yes, you may have to come clean. Likewise if it is a financial/accounting type role, where Maths skills might be essential. If not, just keep quiet.

I have worked in the public and private sectors for over 30 years and have only ever been asked to produce certificates for O Levels (ie GCSE) once for teacher training. I have also worked in HR and as a manager interviewing and appointing people and have never asked for sight of GCSE certs if someone has a degree.

Unless you are a very recent graduate with no work experience behind you, and it is an entry level job, it is very unlikely they will want to see school certificates.

Go to the interview and see what happens. You’ll either not be offered the job, in which case it didn’t matter. Or they’ll love you, offer you the job and most likely only ask for your degree certificate. No one cares about bloody GCSEs once you’ve been working for a few years!

Its an automated system.

Good luck @Confusgurl ! 💐

Quite common these days for employees to work in an evening off their phone 🤷‍♀️

At 19.40 you send the email
by 19.50 you’re reporting back that you’ve had a response and all great

HR was just standing by at 19.40 ready to ping back emails within seconds?

I honestly think you don't need to address anything unless they ask you. Its not a huge deal and the qualifications you have attained afterwards probably actually exceed the gcse level you previously attained. For eg when I did gcse maths I got a d. Then I did an access course and gained a level 3 maths module which was equivalent to a level grade a to c. So that then meant i had updated my qualification which I'm sure you will have. So I it does come up at all then you can simply explain that you attained a d at gcse , but later you got a higher grade in maths so we're not sure that putting a d would ne right as you had attained a higher level which was more current than the gcse grade d xxx

I have been in NHS 25 years (3 jobs) and never shown exam certificates, all band 4 jobs so unless it's different for higher grades.

That's not how it works. It is not a contraction, that's for they've for example.
Typo is an acceptable word in its own right, so the plural is typos.
Typo's is the possessive form, e.g. the typo's function is to shorten a longer phrase.

Another example:

CD is compact disc, so plural is CDs and CD's is the possessive form,

I work in public sector and have recruited a lot of roles and honestly, bar grads maybe, I have not been fussed or had to score on GCSEs and definitely didn't ask for proof. A level and degree yes.
I would send an Email before but I suspect they will not mind at all!

I'm so pleased that they didn't let your mistakes disqualify you from the interview stage OP. The letters 'D', 'C' and 'B' are all very close on the keyboard, so an easy mistake to make. Perhaps take a little more care next time you fill out an application though. 😉 Do come back and let us know if you get the job.

I'm unconvinced of the value of GCSE Maths anyway, unless specifically required for a profession. Arithmetic, yes, working with figures, but would question the need for Geometry or Algebra other than a couple of years at senior school. An old colleague of mine was Head of a very highly regarded Public School for years, despite having failed Maths.His area of expertise was English Literature, in particular Shakespeare and Restoration Drama.

Recruiters tell me GCSEs don't need to be on a CV. But guess all jobs are different

I've never had a job where they check my gcse grades. In fact I couldn't even tell you where my certificates are. Either in my loft or one of my parents

@DreamW3aver and other involved in recruitment who are telling the opposite are, what, lying, bad at their jobs?

Lucyccfc68: "If the role asks for a degree or that type of level of qualification, then they won’t take any notice of your GCSE’s. If you have a degree, you are at an age, where you don’t even need to have your GCSE grades on your CV."

So literally what I just said then?

The degree should trump a GCSE which would have been many years earlier.

I personally wouldn't mentioned it to the hiring manager, maybe a conversation with HR or the recruiter. Actually I probably wouldn't bother at all.

If they ask form certificates.then realise your mistake. If it's not a requirement of the role it's irrelevant.

*Justgorgeous *

How can it be sour grapes when she left and I am now in her job? 😁

My issue was that when we were recruiting we had to make sure that new recruits had all the necessary qualifications, even if that meant them having to apply for a new certificate that they gained 30 odd years ago. If they couldn't find/prove certificate, we wouldn't recruit, regardless of how wonderful we thought they be.

You call it sour grapes, I called it nepotism.. you plum!

Wahay - and good luck!

Lucky you're not the interviewer then!

I made a minor error on the expiry date of a qualification, which meant I shouldn't strictly speaking have listed it. I realised it at some point while I was going through interviews and emailed the recruiter. Easily fixed and no big deal.

It's easy enough to do with those pesky detailed online forms

Yes think I was last year too, we applied for unis through Ucca and polys through pcas then the following year when by brother applied it was just one organisation called ucas. I did a levels summer of 92

Maybe she was good at her job and it didn’t matter. Sour grapes.

Yes I was last year to apply dual system I held 4 offers 2 for uni and 2 for polys. My friend couldn’t get a uni place for law without maths went to Manchester poly, really bright girl.