Was wondering how it looks to have a good internship on my resume, but C+s in the two finance courses I have listed as "Relevant coursework." Should I just drop the relevant coursework section from my resume? I feel like if I don't have it, interviewers will then ask if I have any academic finance background (I'm a math major) and will then inevitably ask what I got in those courses, whereas it might go ignored if it's already on my resume.
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What is the internship if you dont mind me asking?
Maybe you shouldn't be in finance?
Maybe it was just his school/teachers that were bad? Difficult course load during that semester? Had other things going on in life? I guess I always look at the glass half-full :P
If it were me, I would leave that OFF. I'm assuming you have a good overall GPA.
a math major with c's in finance...that's something i'm not used to hearing.
I know this sounds retarded, but I have very good finance intuition and just suck at carrying out the equations (these were derivatives and fixed-income classes, not corp. fin). And while I had extremely difficult course loads those two semesters, it's not really an excuse.
The internship was in Debt Capital Markets, and my bosses did say they were impressed by my understanding of how the markets work and what affects them. I just can't create a synthetic collared forward for shit.
If you are planning to come back up north, I would leave it off your resume for now, but make sure to do well in any future classes. In Toronto most of people you will compete for banking/trading come from top undergrad b-schools and usually all have straight A's in finance courses. Also didn't you say you want to get into trading, and yet you did bad in your fixed income classes?
All of the big5 trading programs in Canada, take marks very seriously especially in this environment.
The number of people who do well in finance classes vastly outstrips the number of people who do well in finance. If you have the confidence that you are better than the people who have both the intuition and the "equation" stuff, best of luck.
There's a way to spin everything. Do interviewers really ask you what specific grad you got in a course?
If someone asked me for my GPA, at this point in my career, I'd immediately think the interviewer is a retard. I'd never directly answer. In fact, I'd probably pose a question back "I graduated X number of years ago and a proven track record. Does that matter?"
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