How bad is my CV?

Hey,

I recently opened a thread about my cover letter and have got some good advice on it. I am now concerned about my CV and want a well trained eye in the field to have a look at it :)

I made a two page CV long back following my university CV guide and got it checked by the career services who said it was great. I don't believe them.

After reading a lot of forum posts saying one page is the way to go, I have now made a one page one using Tuck CV template.

Can someone have a look and tell me if it goes okay for the sort of competencies looked for in the IB world?

Thank you very much!

CV link: http://www.razume.com/documents/29210

 

Well you did a fine job making it look nice and clean, 1 page is the only way to go, and I am a fan of the style (I love me some small caps) ... but the content is going to be a challenge. You have pretty much zero finance related experience and the experience you do have is not "bank-ified"

You should do everything you can to get an internship, join your Uni's student managed investment fund, do self-study financial modeling courses, etc before you graduate in '13 so you can throw all of those on your resume

 

It is a nice looking resume. I want to do things to it....

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I am applying for my first internship so unfortunately I have no finance background. I am doing everything I can now to get the internship but it's quite late to apply and I am having serious issues with cover letter, so I am really worried what might happen. I got rejected at the final interview stage at Lazard, and I was hoping a lot to get that one.

Any grammar, spelling or poor content?

Thank you once again!

Being a prospective monkey I am bound to post stupid comments due to my lack of expert knowledge. I implore you to correct me harshly or constructively, and I will appreciate any learning opportunity.
 
zeroblued:
quite late? are you applying in London?
Yes, I am. I got caught up in one application (the whole recruitment process) and I couldn't focus on other ones. Now I am struggling with cover letters.

@Oreos: Thank you for your input! I can't use bullets as it makes the text overflow to second page, semi colons didn't look any better. So I am considering using " - " as bullets for this but it looks very odd.

I am quite concerned about the content, so would highly appreciate if someone has a quick look.

Being a prospective monkey I am bound to post stupid comments due to my lack of expert knowledge. I implore you to correct me harshly or constructively, and I will appreciate any learning opportunity.
 

sort out the hyphens, some are "--" and others are "-"

"Others" sections need delineation by way of bullet points or semi colons or just something as it currently looks like a para but doesn't read as one.

can't comment on content as i'm bit too lazy to read it....

"After you work on Wall Street it’s a choice, would you rather work at McDonalds or on the sell-side? I would choose McDonalds over the sell-side.” - David Tepper
 

I am doing this online coursera course from Georgia Tech - Computational Investing. Is it worth mentioning this in my CV under interest or is it silly? (I am in the UK)

Being a prospective monkey I am bound to post stupid comments due to my lack of expert knowledge. I implore you to correct me harshly or constructively, and I will appreciate any learning opportunity.
 

Actually I've been thinking about the same thing, as I intend to attend a couple of finance related courses on coursera as well. So if somebody could enlighten me, that would be most welcome.

 

There are a lot of templates and organizational methods you can find online. But one thing to look out for are the hyphens "--" vs "-". Make sure to look for small details.

 
Shade:
There are a lot of templates and organizational methods you can find online. But one thing to look out for are the hyphens "--" vs "-". Make sure to look for small details.

Hey, I've already fixed them - haven't updated the new one here. Could you see anything else with this? Any comment on the content would be very highly appreciated.

alexisk:
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Check out the computational investing I, it's quite good! learned a lot about portfolio optimisation and python coding! I am not sure if the QSTK thing is industry standard, but it seems quite robust.
Being a prospective monkey I am bound to post stupid comments due to my lack of expert knowledge. I implore you to correct me harshly or constructively, and I will appreciate any learning opportunity.
 

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