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I've only ever looked at transcripts for co-op positions, because our student salary grid takes into account how many semesters the student has completed. I've never worked at a place that specifically hired the students with the highest grades. In fact, most of us prefered to see that someone worked while they were in school, was socially active, hopefully played some team sports - even if all that led to lower (still passing though...) grades, it also led to a more well-rounded person = a plus. So in the end, the transcript didn't add much other than a way to calculate the student pay.
We do check degrees through our background check vendor, it's part of the regular employment/education verifications. The vendors go directly to the uni's to get that verification, so even if you've lost the actual piece of paper you'll be fine. If you didn't graduate though, you'll have to pull a Mike Ross and somehow get your name into that uni's system 🙃
Chief
Lol, it's from the show Suits - Mike Ross is supersmart and has passed the lsats a bunch of times under other people's name, but never went to law school himself. Somehow he gets hired at a major law firm that only hires from Harvard, and that's just the first episode. Highly recommend it! 😊
Chief
Weird, I have had education verification at every company I have worked at (4), even though a degree is not "required."
My current organization includes education verification as part of the background check process.
We check that someone has graduated with the degree that they stated they do. We're not looking at the grades though. As a non-profit that works with children, our state contracts mandate that we hire a certain percentage of people with the appropriate degree.