> Learning just in case, the opposite of JIT makes sense too, but is "unpredictably effective" - the stuff you learned may be needed and put you ahead, but may not.
This is also a place to tailor things. If you are particularly good at learning ahead of time, then you can learn a lot of things "just in case" at a low cost, increasing the chances that something you learned is useful.
If you aren't especially good at it, then you're going to have much lower chances and JIT learning makes sense for all the reasons in TFA
> Dont put effort just for the sake of grades, they are worthless.
I'd like everyone who makes this claim to try submitting resumes of a fresh college graduate with a low C average to a dozen companies and see if even a single one of them calls back.
Grades are a means to an end, which is different than being worthless.
I actually had a low C average, and I only got my first job because I didn't put my GPA on my resume and one company forgot to ask me my GPA; the interviewer later confirmed that they would not have moved on to a second round (much less hired me) had they known my GPA.
At e.g. a college job fair, not having the GPA on the resume jumps out immediately and the recruiter would ask me for my GPA and write it on the resume if it wasn't there. With the GPA on my resume, I had several recruiters say "You might want to save this for another company because we aren't calling you back with that GPA" and hand me my resume back. This included, with zero exceptions, every SV company at the CS job fair at my college.
After the first job, you are much less likely to be asked for GPA, but it does still occasionally happen.
Weirdest (right out of college) interview was where I had gone through all the stages, including a multi-hour on-site, they were talking salary range, specific roles, and when I could start, but then they had to fill out a form for HR. The dialogue was roughly:
Interviewer: You're coming right out of school, right?
Me: Yes
I: Okay, I need your GPA
M: 2.2
I: Oh. (long pause, looked very uncomfortable) alright then.
They suddenly switched from being obviously ready to hire me to perfunctorily filling out the form.
I throw my university GOA on my CV because it looks good without taking up much space, but is ultimately meaningless at this point. No one asked for it, no one probably cared about it, but it is still something I’m proud of given the struggle in earning it.
This is also a place to tailor things. If you are particularly good at learning ahead of time, then you can learn a lot of things "just in case" at a low cost, increasing the chances that something you learned is useful.
If you aren't especially good at it, then you're going to have much lower chances and JIT learning makes sense for all the reasons in TFA
> Dont put effort just for the sake of grades, they are worthless.
I'd like everyone who makes this claim to try submitting resumes of a fresh college graduate with a low C average to a dozen companies and see if even a single one of them calls back.
Grades are a means to an end, which is different than being worthless.