demolish my cv pls.
Apply for SA London 2024 soon. Need some advice. Also feel like i dont have enough experience on my CV. What do you suggest to gain some and fill it up? (Want to land job in trading/quant or mbb consulting)
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Lol it’s not that deep
He goes to University of Lincoln. Same post on Reddit lol
Says semi-target so probably Notts/Bristol - only semi-targets to my knowledge offering that course
some blokes here dont understand the simplest banter. I dont go lincoln. Its acc my dream school
Get rid of that ‘KPMG virtual experience’. Not CV worthy and is most likely misleading.
Have you never had an actual job that you can put on your cv?
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Yes just some retails jobs
Make sure the dashes (between dates on right hand side) are consistent in length, some are dashes while others are hyphens.
Would add lines under each section, whether all the way across or just under education/experience etc
Add dividers between sections, otherwise ok
Your finance society and trading competition should not be under your experiences section. Seems like you don't have any actual work experience or spring weeks so I'd recommend putting any part-time jobs you've done to fluff up the space. Could use some rewording on some bullet points, they come across weird sounding or at the very best could be worded better.
Overall: you have a fairly weak CV for BB/EB IB SAs (no offence) but that shouldn't stop you from polishing every other aspect of the application process and with some luck you should be fine.
What would you say makes or particularly weak? Is it the lack of relevant internship / job experience, or something else? (I’m recruiting next year and I want to know if I might be making the same mistake)
It's not weak. You don't need spring weeks to get an SA. I didn't.
Keep up extracurriculars, show a genuine interest in IB, and you'll get interviews.
A summer job would be nice to put on there, but certainly not necessary. I had removed mine by the time I applied (and was successful for) my SA role.
But the poster is right, put your eztracurriclars into an eztracuccllalrs and leadership section, it shouldn't be in "relevant experience". And for now, change that to "Work Experience" and fill with whatever you have or can get atm ok
Its not weak per se but relative to your competition who are also applying for IBD at BB/EB they will have more relevant work experience (usually multiple springs), better uni, better hs grades, more tailored extracurriculars and overall a more polished CV. These are your real competition aka the ones that will be filling the seats you want.
My genuine opinion is yes your work experience section is not the best and it doesn't have to be, but the other parts of your CV don't outshine to make up for that deficit. You are recruiting into a particularly difficult year but you are definitely more "on it" than I was at your age so I think you will be fine.
Have screened Resumes and I would not interview you for the reasons below.
1. Lack of Attention to detail
- Multiple formatting mistakes and you certainly lack attention to detail. Why are dashes different lengths? Why is there no space before "|" in your first experience? Why are all months abbreviated except March, June and July? Why is there no space after "-" in the Basketball experience? Why is there an inconsistent gap in your CV, i.e. why is the space between education and experience double than the other part? Why have one line and one word as a bullet point so it creates a big white gap in your CV? Why is there no dot in your first bullet point? Why do you not split the section in your CV so it's more pleasant to read it? Why are the bullet points on Optiver not on the same vertical line as the rest? Why do you have a comma in "4,500" but not in "1360"? Why is the KPMG experience not upper case like the others?
2. Non-rational thinking behind listed experience
- Probably the biggest problem with most university students, there is no rationale thinking about the experience that you have listed. Why is there both PwC and KPMG? The marginal benefit of having two similar experiences is minimal, the KPMG one has 0 value added in my opinion. Same thing with societies. The marginal benefit of having 3 societies is little to none. I would personally scrap Russian society. Why not have something maybe more unique that isn't related to your academics / professional profession? I would rather have a discussion of someone who was for instance a Co-founder of the society's Horror Movie Society than someone who is an Executive at X Finance society.
3. Weak bullet points
- Extremely weak bullet points, especially the first ones. "Served as a VP in..", I can see that on your title, no need to repeat it again.
- Very little focus on things you actually achieved and unnecessary details on stuff like giving 2 decimal figures of the amount raised.
4. Very few achievements
- Academics is below average, experience is below average where you simply haven't been active enough. None of your experience is actually a differentiator, especially in today's world where every single candidate that gets an interview has a minimum of what you have.
This is just a few points on top of my head, happy to get back to you later with some more points. Try and use this summer wisely
Not abbreviating march, June, or July is common practice as they have no reason to be shortened. For a resume though, just write out the whole month!
It's not, I rather have consistency throughout the Resume
What do you mean by use this summer wisely?
Also thanks for those points, really appreciated. Could I PM you my CV to take a quick look at?
Of course.
To compensate for having below-average experience, you must have rock-solid experience. So going overall all the technicals for IBD interviews and knowing them perfectly
Bro you don’t have any real work experience. Having “stocked shelves at Aldi” would be better than two bullshit diversity conferences that weren’t even at ibanks. Good luck though seriously, put one of your minimum wage jobs on there!
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