Include these resume items?
I decided on finance recently so I missed the big company interviews. I'm now looking for a last minute internship in IB (unlikely at this point) or some other finance (maybe wealth management).
So far my only work experience is science/engineering research and a computer helping job. My only finance experiences are a school club and poker.
Should I include a poker entry under Activities like "Multi-table 12 $X buy-in cash games simultaneously. Use earnings to finance college."? Can this be worded better -- should I include average weekly hours or hourly rate? Can this help whatsoever or is it basically only going to work against me?
How about entries on 1) engineering projects -- part of engineering design class where we worked in groups to design things to solve problems given to us by companies/hospitals/people 2) ebay -- imported a couple hundred watches, wallets, poker chips to sell; did this mostly in high school (only the poker chips were in college and lost money :[ ) 3) google answers -- was selected as an official researcher for this service, but participated mostly in high school as well
If anyone is interested in reviewing my resume, that'd be cool.
no to writing about poker, ebay, and google answers.
hehe, what's wrong with a bit of entrepreneurship?
first it was in high school and second, who cares?
also, did the OP do anything in college worthwhile mentioning?
chimp,
as far as extracurricular stuff, not much except finance club and fraternity. i've regrettably been too focused on poker instead of a real career. so now i'm trying to do something "worthwhile" -- an internship.
id say no for just about all except maybe the engineering stuff. A few kids put poker down as a past-time, but claiming it as a full time job i think would just look as if you have a gambling problem.
Or maybe.... open a casino in an apartment somewhere and wait for J.T. Marlin to pick you up.
If you really do want to get into financials you might have an easier job marketing yourself as a financial engineer (because of the math/science background).... if you really want to do investment banking I would spend a lot of time researching the industry, researching the jobs/companies, trying to find alumni or friends as contacts, and make sure that if going into interviews you can answer the usual questions.... along with the question about why investment banking after doing a math/science major....
you could go the technology route into financials. 2-3 years experience at a firm then get mba then quit tech altogether.
"Should I include a poker entry under Activities like "Multi-table 12 $X buy-in cash games simultaneously. Use earnings to finance college."? Can this be worded better "
yes, 'i'm a degenerate gambler....'
2) ebay -- imported a couple hundred watches, wallets, poker chips to sell;
yes, 'i hustle on ebay"
It's fine if you include poker as one of your hobbies in the personal/additional section of your resume, but don't try to cite it as work experience. Definitely leave the ebay and google things out.
The engineering stuff is fine, just make sure a finance guy reading your resume can understand what exactly you did.
Did you really finance college through poker? It's strange - every person I know that regularly goes to casino poker rooms wins a lot of money and could make over 100K if they did it as a job...
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