Poor A level grades but good RG unconditional offer

[Peverellshire]

If very poor grades but previously stellar academic profile & by a some miracle an RG accepts a DC, is there a downside to very poor A level grades on CV re: future employment?

The poor A level grades, unfortunately a good reason, which RG are aware of & have been kept it loop. Probably reason for generous offer.

IF a DC goes on to get a 2:1 or higher in degree, will it matter? They don’t want to retake as they’ve had enough but could it harm career prospects? Had Oxbridge offer & school scholar for context. Thank you.

Imagine they’ll want to progress to Masters.

Thanks, @poetryandwine. To clarify, when I said that A Levels might be looked at for Computer Science, I was only repeating what I had heard on another thread somewhere. The majority of people contributing here who have more recent experience disagree with that, and so I'm fairly convinced that I was misinformed. It seems to be Law and Finance that care most, and even then, not all firms.

It might depend on competition for the grad scheme. A levels can be part of the overall picture. Obviously not universal.,

In many years of graduate recruitment, we mainly looked at degree class and postgrads to whittle down the CVs for interview. Once shortlisted for interview, it was mainly about whether they could do the technical questions. I'd have expected to see A level grades on the CV and assumed they were hiding something if they weren't stated, but in general wouldn't have excluded them from the shortlist for poor A level grades as it is too long ago. Degree + postgrad is more current/relevant.
I did know of one company who more or less insisted on an A at A level maths for recruitment into their more technical roles because they'd found through long experience that this was a better predictor of being able to handle the abstraction of their technical/niche roles than, say, degree class.
I was never that impressed by CVs with multiple internships. Overall, number of internships seemed to have a negative correlation with intellectual curiosity / depth of understanding. Those who'd done internships every summer from age of 19 seemed to be maniacally focused on money/career to the extent that they hadn't acquired a deep enough knowledge of their degree (or any other) subject - they were corporate robots, not original thinkers.

Depends on field of work. DD did MFL degree. Converted to law. She did mini pupillages, worked and volunteered to build a cv. She didn’t need knowledge of MFL for her career. As indeed lots of humanity grads don’t for careers. Technical or knowledge based careers directly linked to degree are different. Also a trajectory of A levels, degree and working to gain employability are important to some employers if they find a correlation between exam performance and better employees.

I'd echo that the value of internships varies by field, @EctopicSpleen. In areas where they're rare, they show some initiative and work ethic, or so I've been told. DD managed to get a rare-as-hen's-teeth paid internship this summer actually doing a lot of illustration for a client to incredibly tight deadlines, which has got to be a good thing and will land her excellent references if she aims for a salaried position (most illustrators are freelance). Certainly not because of the money! It was also an immense boost to her self-confidence.

Internships can be a filter for employers. DD became a pupil where she did a mini pupillage. On another thread a DS was offered a place on a grad scheme following internship. The students get to know the company a bit snd they can have a look at the student. DD also did a 2 week internship with solicitors and decided she didn’t want to be a solicitor. So knowing what you don’t want can also be useful!

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