A resume for sales&trading / investment consulting. Please have feedback as much as possible.
I am currently in the penultimate year and looking for a summer internship in sales&trading in BB, located in Singapore. Did get some interviews from BarCap, UBS, and Nomura. Yet, for the rest of the banks, didn't get any feedback and I would assume that the CV is not qualified for their tastes...I was thinking what kind of improvement I could have. For example, would the content be too much? The reason is I was asked to fill in as much keywords as possible, result of the work as well. I sent this to my Asian professional network and they said ok while when I showed it to my network in London he said I don't have to put in so much details otherwise I have nothing to say during the interview. Also HR would get tired to read the small and tiny details.
This is my first time to use WSO. Thanks a lot for your help, monkeys!
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looks a bit cluttered when your using small font, narrow margins and you've stacked alot of info in there. perhaps remove some of the leadership activities and focus on the best 2 of them to make some space on the page (you didn't win the UBS essay competition at the top but down below you say you did)
the issue i notice is that you've made some of your dot points 3 sentences long just to get info in there,
maybe pull apart each point, i.e. 'daimler' - 'business development' into individual sentences and you'll notice some of it is less important and isn't written as well as it could be
Business Development: - Researched the Ping An Insurance company structure in collaboration with McKinsey & Company to assist in establishing the XX million dollar joint-venture in China
For S&T just highlight what's relevant. Be careful when you claim you know "quantitative modelling" because I don't see anything like C++, R, Matlab, SQL on your CV. Crunching financial data and calculating cash flows do NOT count as quantitative modelling.
They won't be interested in portfolio constructions and shit. Can you show me the curves of CNY and CNH? Who is trading at premium in the front-end? Who has a bigger flow now? By how much? What's the day trading volume? How do you think these two curves should move against each other in both theory and reality? Can you write a plain vanilla Black-Scholes pricer in Excel VBA within 30 minutes? QUANT is a very dangerous word to use if you don't have a degree in a hard science field. Most people on the trading floor these days do.
If you have no answers for any of these questions when reading this reply, then you have no shot in trading. Now for the S, you need to highlight the qualities that you think might be important for a salesperson.
You're welcome if you like the blunt truth given to your face. My apologies if you don't.
So if I can't answer any of these questions as a Senior in College who recently gained interest in S&T, you're advice would be don't even bother?
Glad to see people from SMU on WSO
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