Official college transcript submission required for marketing communications specialist role at a community college?

15 Comments

1. Maureen WhitehurstOctober 16,2024 at 6:12PM UTC

   Yes. The college will audit certain needed courses. They need to make sure your college courses and degree(s) prove you are qualified for the role. College accrediting bodies demand specific education/work experience/expertise etc. for many college jobs. The College must have proof readily available that employees meet official accreditation criteria, etc. This proof is actually examined when the accrediting team arrives on campus. The visiting accreditor team's protocol may be randomly pulling a sampling of employees' credentials and actually checking for each needed course/diploma/experience met etc.

2. AnonymousOctober 16,2024 at 6:39PM UTC

   Always a good idea to keep your college transcripts. Once you have them, get them scanned, keep in a folder and you can attach them in applications. It's your academic credentials which if required for a job, you may have to provide them. I think background checks can include them but it may depend on the level of background check the employer pays for. There are different levels. Once you have them though, they are yours so you shouldn't have to pay for them every time. I was in recruiting for a very long time and remember providing them for one of the companies I worked. But other companies I worked didn't ask me as they may have verified it in the background check. Always a crap shoot.

3. AnonymousOctober 17,2024 at 2:17AM UTC

   This is good advice thank you for the detailed response!

4. RosemaryOctober 16,2024 at 9:59PM UTC

   That sounds ridiculous with an *application.* Especially since 99/100 you’ll never hear anything at all.

   On the other hand, most people won’t bother to do it so I suppose you might have a better chance that way.

5. AnonymousOctober 17,2024 at 2:16AM UTC

   My thoughts exactly! I went ahead and sent them but maybe only a few others did and I have less competition lol

6. AnonymousOctober 18,2024 at 8:48AM UTC

   I work at an academic institution. Not sending required transcripts is the fast route to the rejection pile; a candidate who doesn't follow this direction won't make it past the screeners.

7. AnonymousOctober 17,2024 at 1:11PM UTC

   I think it's very reasonable. It's education, and it's cheaper than adding this to their background check costs. If it's too much for you then pass, they will hire someone else. You're already condeming the 'employer' without giving them a chance. This must be frustrating, yes it happens not getting a response after your efforts, but hang in there.

8. AnonymousOctober 17,2024 at 2:53PM UTC

   OP here. What’s with the snarky reply? No one is condemning them and it’s not “too much” for me, I just asked if this was typical of college staff applications. I do think it’s a bit much to send official transcripts without the guarantee of anyone even looking at my application.

9. AnonymousOctober 17,2024 at 3:14PM UTC

   Too many applicants who aren't able to show they're qualified to back up with education. College/Universities cost enough, background check costs would be passed onto the students in the big picture. Our costs for background checks range from $30-110 each applicant. Adding the education part actually creates more delays than you'd think. It involves another human not a database. If you've never been in the academia prior, this is something that is the norm. It's wasn't snarky but you read it that way, I get it.

10. AnonymousOctober 17,2024 at 3:37PM UTC

    My goodness this response is condescending.

11. AnonymousOctober 17,2024 at 1:38PM UTC

    I worked for a college temporarily this year and the transcripts for my BA and MS were required. Most of the time, they'll allow a copy until a job offer is extended. Upon receiving a letter, they'll request formal ones from the institution as a contingency to your employment. That way, you don't have to pay the money until you know you have the role.

12. OLIVIA JOHNSONOctober 17,2024 at 7:04PM UTC

    Hi there!

    Yes. This is pretty standard for most roles in Academia/Education.

    The good news is that once you have obtained this from your prior schools, you can now keep it on file and utilize it for any submissions where it is requested.

    So it may be tedious for the first go round but once you have this, it will be pretty standard for the others.

    Best wishes!

    Coach Olivia

13. AnonymousOctober 18,2024 at 1:10PM UTC

    I've worked at 3 higher ed institutions, 2 in a hiring role and never was asked for transcripts, so I find it odd but it seems it isn't uncommon. Even for an adjunct professor role I didn't have to do this. I also never asked for transcripts when hiring. HR verified the education once we were at the offer state. (And once I had to turn a candidate away as the stated degree hadn't been completed).

    I can see two reasons for asking:

    1) as someone else commented- to save money on the background check? But they still need to do that for criminal records. Plus PDFs can be edited so I'd want to check on the education anyway.

    2) You'd have to be serious about the application to bother with this, so maybe to cull out the people who are just applying randomly to everything (this DOES happen and bogs down the hiring process).

14. AnonymousOctober 18,2024 at 1:41PM UTC

    I've been in higher ed for 23 years. All 4 colleges that I worked for have required copies of transcripts. This was even required when I was applying for a position at the university where I graduated.

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