Resume Review - Rising Senior at Non-Target
Hoping you guys could take a look at my resume. I'm a rising senior at a non target, liberal arts looking to get in investment banking or asset management FT (going to aim towards MM/boutiques in the midwest). I don't have any internship experience in those industries though but have plenty in PWM (so feel free to make the usual jokes, but hoping for some constructive criticism as well). Thanks.
Looks solid, at first glance I see you are a hard worker. I would look into the formatting a bit more if I were you.
Formatting: Looks pretty decent, although I like line breaks between sections, your name should be bigger, and your email/phone # can be on the same line. Level your major GPA and below with your degree and below, in other words your major GPA should not be on your school line, but on bachelors degree line - parallel.
Context: last bullet under Country is useless (GPA bullet), punch up the bullet points a bit if you have any sort of results from your experiences. If you are going to open each bullet with a verb, then open each with a very ("successfully," for example, is not necessary). Scheduling events are not impressive, and watch your action verbs (communicated doesn't say much about your experience). No need to mention your associate - own what you've done - Worked on the implementation, for example, instead of worked with my associate.
Unless you can punch up your leadership section with results and selectivity, vs processes and blanket descriptions, I would recommend significantly cutting that section down (for example, eliminating the fraternity point and cutting the bullets down to 1 or so quality points for each), because it looks like you are just trying to fill your resume.
Under interests, I would either omit volunteering entirely, or mention specific groups, and I would remove self studied and such - it will not benefit your candidacy, and you could be grilled on that point pretty hard.
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Thanks for the feedback- I'm going to incorporate as much of what you said as possible. Also, is there a better way to say/better place to put "self-studied in IB/Investing"? I want to get accross the point that I took initiative to educate myself, but is it even worth trying to tie this into the resume?
Your resume is at its core: solid, especially for what you want to do. I agree with Bankon Banking, your activities needs to be all present tense, active language. Which comes off as bland and passive. Also in interests, drop the self studied thing for finance. If you want to say something like that say "avid reader: favorite content Bloomberg, WSJ, etc..." if you want to go that rout. Its obvious your a hard worker just show them you've got some edge too. How much "edge" you can show off in a resume is debatable but I think you catch my drift.
westfald
Didn't catch your post until after I posted mine- thanks for the input. I like the idea about WJS, Bloomberg
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