6 Free Financial Modeling Lessons...and More.

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on 6/12/12 at 6:29pm

Ok that's good to hear! I don't doubt my ability to nail those interviews, though my previous finance-related ones often centered around my lack of finance experience (I still got them or got far but they were non-traditional roles, like FOHFs, econ or other boutique consulting)

Question: I may get a

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on 6/12/12 at 6:37pm

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I may get a publication on oil reserve strategy this summer if I focus on my internship, and also need to study for my GRE over the next couple months.

Is the marginal benefit of the CFA 1 in december great enough to possibly justify a hit on the quality of my internship/publication/GRE score, if I study for that starting now too? Should I maybe just do the self-taught modeling course advertised here instead? Is that even worth it?

I expected every other word

BTbanker

(Senior Neanderthal, 5,336

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on 6/12/12 at 7:23pm

I expected every other word to be a number for a math major. Quantify that shit.

Nice GPA for uChi.

"A man generally has two reasons for doing anything. One that sounds good, and the real one." - J.P. Morgan

He doesn't seem to be from

unnamed

(Senior Chimp, 19

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on 6/12/12 at 8:05pm

He doesn't seem to be from UChicago since he said he goes to a non-target.

Connor:

I expected every other word to be a number for a math major. Quantify that shit.

Nice GPA for uChi.

I think you can make the

Going Concern

(King Kong, 1,706

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on 6/12/12 at 8:15pm

I think you can make the formatting better - your use of bullets seems a bit odd. Also anywhere you can further emphasize analysis or incorporate more finance language into the description might be good.

Interesting resume, not what you usually see on here.

And I think it's gonna be a long, long, time

The National Lab internship

(Gorilla, 687

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on 6/12/12 at 8:34pm

The National Lab internship sounds very impressive but the first line is somewhat generic. Are you just adding impressive sounding phrases such as game theory without understanding the concept in depth? Perhaps be more specific... entire resume seems full of keywords (strategically placed ones for scanners and may not appear genuine).

Can you improve your technical skills section considering your quantitative background.... VBA, C++, Matlab, R?

Agree with the above comment about the bullet points. Not sure the second line is necessary

Remove interests section

Also consider making two versions, one for PE and one for HFs. PE would obviously more finance/IB related whereas HF for trading would be more comp/math orientated. Go to a job site and see the skills necessary for analyst, junior trader, assistant trader, etc. and then customize your resume. I can say right away that for a quant HF you're going to need VBA, advanced stats, R and possibly C++ if you're doing support. If you're going to model then Matlab is going to be important as well. For a more qualitative fundamental driven HF a research background more related to PE would be sufficient without all of the software knowledge.

Lastly, does your school have a Bloomberg Terminal or at least a Reuters computer that you can get comfortable with and add it to your skills section?

Going Concern: I think you

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on 6/12/12 at 8:41pm

Going Concern:

Interesting resume, not what you usually see on here.

My attempt to incorporate the M&I project-focused resume advice. It does look odd, I agree.

I hope you're just hiding

(Baboon, 133

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on 6/12/12 at 8:44pm

I hope you're just hiding most of the interesting stuff (possibly for lack of relevancy), that looks pretty sad for a chicago pure math dude.

mb666: The National Lab

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on 6/12/12 at 8:51pm

mb666:

Can you improve your technical skills section considering your quantitative background.... VBA, C++, Matlab, R?

Agree with the above comment about the bullet points. Not sure the second line is necessary

Remove interests section

Lastly, does your school have a Bloomberg Terminal or at least a Reuters computer that you can get comfortable with and add it to your skills section?

The description of the National Labs stuff is taken directly from the job description itself; I'm not far along enough to have meaningful information about my research yet, but it does draw substantially from those areas. As for other keywords, I think I can make some improvements but at least my econ RA stuff is too varied and complex, I feel, to be anything but generic.

Removed.

I don't know if I want to or should try and compete for heavy quant positions, esp coming from a non-target. I will have a full year of probability and stats, C++ and other application focused courses after next year, but for now I'm heavy on the abstract.

Matlab and C++ are definitely doable, that's good advice. But better than studying for CFA? And the finance dept has a ton of Bloomberg Terminals, I'll definitely try. It's too bad I'm out of town this summer.

canas15: I hope you're just

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on 6/12/12 at 8:58pm

canas15:

I hope you're just hiding most of the interesting stuff (possibly for lack of relevancy), that looks pretty sad for a chicago pure math dude.

Lol I'm a non-target, not at UChicago. But yeah I feel that differential equations or my econ courses are more relevant. I literally had a portfolio manager at a FOF spend five minutes telling me that my courses were 'insane' and that I'd be too bored in the job, back when I only listed math.

Khansian: canas15: I hope

(Baboon, 133

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on 6/12/12 at 8:59pm

Khansian:

canas15:

I hope you're just hiding most of the interesting stuff (possibly for lack of relevancy), that looks pretty sad for a chicago pure math dude.

Same thing happened to me when I interviewed at S&T for a BB. Someone was like "what is pure math anyways?", and proceeded to never ask me about my major again after hearing the explanation.

canas15: Khansian: canas1

(Baboon, 133

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on 6/12/12 at 9:00pm

canas15:

Khansian:

canas15:

I hope you're just hiding most of the interesting stuff (possibly for lack of relevancy), that looks pretty sad for a chicago pure math dude.

Same thing happened to me when I interviewed at S&T for a BB. Someone was like "what is pure math anyways?", and proceeded to never ask me about my major again after hearing the explanation.

Khansian: Matlab and C++ are

(Gorilla, 687

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on 6/12/12 at 9:01pm

mb666: Khansian: Matlab and

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on 6/12/12 at 9:18pm

canas15: canas15: Khansia

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on 6/12/12 at 9:20pm

Khansian: canas15: canas1

(Baboon, 133

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on 6/12/12 at 9:23pm

First things first, that is a

seedy underbelly

(King Kong, 1,090

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on 6/12/12 at 9:27pm

canas15: Khansian: canas1

nontarget kid

(Senior Baboon, 245

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on 6/12/12 at 9:50pm

canas15: Khansian: canas1

(Gorilla, 687

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on 6/12/12 at 10:20pm

mb666: canas15: Khansian:

(Baboon, 133

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on 6/12/12 at 10:22pm

^ So following that logic if

(Gorilla, 687

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on 6/12/12 at 10:36pm

mb666: ^ So following that

(Baboon, 133

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on 6/12/12 at 10:40pm

canas15: mb666: ^ So

(Gorilla, 687

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on 6/12/12 at 11:10pm

mb666: canas15: mb666: ^

(Baboon, 133

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on 6/12/12 at 11:28pm

^I did Political Science and

(Gorilla, 687

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on 6/13/12 at 12:11am

Grades do generally get

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on 6/13/12 at 1:10am

That said, my GPA was brought