resume(no direct finance experience)

Why haven't you interned before? The majority of people you'll be competing with will have 2-3 internships by the time they enter for FT positions.

Skip the CC stuff, nobody cares, hurts your case IMO. I guess you are smart with the no highschool thing but it makes me feel I'm taking a risk in considering you.

Work on your formatting, just seems off and not consistent. What I mean is your bullet points end a awkward areas, with some short bullets and others long. doesn't matter to untrained eyes but a banker formatting documents all the time will notice.

Space things out a bit more. Take irrelevant weak points out to accomplish that. Really know what you want to get across to the reader and mold your resume to draw as much attention to it. All the shit on the bottom is not very bankerish although I'd admire the fact you worked a lot of jobs - so just write you did it with no explanation. A banker really wouldn't care what you did at a drugstore - lol

Looking again, that work experience wasn't even during college. That just tells me you're depserate to put stuff on your resume. Or you're really eager to prove something to me. Best tip ever - people feel more comfortable and impressed when you look like you do things effortlessly. If I sense you're trying, you're trying to hard. The hard sell of "I want this" might work too but the soft sell of "i'm a perfect fit for this job" is even stronger IMO.

the number of bullets go on forever. Most people won't read all of them so again, cut stuff out and get the best points there across. So no more vague descriptions. no more than 4 bullets i'd say, with best stuff on top.

You have typos. Award vs. Awarded. Maybe you did it on purpose, I dunno but it doesn't seem consistent so take one out.

Did you ever do any econ project or soemthing? You should write about that if you can because all you have is leadership stuff. which is kinda lame because I'd have no idea if you can really work.

Wow, move the economic association thing up. I actually skipped it my first read. See - you need to think about what you want to get across and position it so I'd actually read it. Position important thing higher with more bullets than other sections (like 4 instead of 2)

Your Business association thing. I would've skipped the trading competition if I didn't pay attention. Again, format it this so you can get your point across. Maybe just skip the studied blalbalblbla and just write Trading compeition as 1 entre section.

.. Overall impression. Great you know some stuff - but most of it is vague or doesn't apply to a banking job. It's a bit concerning you don't have a finance internship but at least you worked maybe because you' have yo support yourself or your family. but I'm not gonna like some sob-story like that prevent me from taking a kid who actually had practical experiences.

Your strongest point - TARGET. Network within your alumni base and use your degrees as common grounds.

peace.

Take modeling courses, build your finance knowledge, work unpaid.

And wait, you didn't go to high school?

I agree with couchy that you need to work on the formatting. It seems like you crammed to much irrelevant shit in there for the sake of filling up space.

You desperately need some real finance experience so Network and get yourself an unpaid internship, then go from there.

First: Thank you to everyone for the feedback, it means a lot.

Why haven't you interned before? I went to school fulltime, even in the summer. I also worked at that cop job all year round. I had to pay a lot of my own bills.

You did not go to highschool? No I did not. Right after 8th grade I went to community college to get an associate degree in business administration.

I will fix the formatting errors and move the relevant information up.

How should I go about reaching out to alumni? Cold calling or emails?

It seems I need to focus on internships so I will do so in addition to applying for jobs.

TO:Anacott_CEO Assuming I take modeling courses, is it acceptable to put courses you took on your resume? I was told unless it resulted in some sort of certification then it's not. Also should I attend a class or are online courses acceptable?

Lastly, I know some people at JP Morgan that may very likely be able to get me an interview for an entry position in wealth management. It is performance based. Does anyone have any opinions on this job?

Thanks and please keep the responses coming, you guys are great.

Isn't your degree in Econ a B.A.?

Took a full credit load? Isn't that 12 hours? Either say you overloaded on hours or don't say anything about you being a full/part/halftime student. People work internships during the semester all the time.