Lehman Bros. Summer position.... Interview. Help!

Hey everyone,

I have an interview with Lehman Brothers coming up this Thursday for some sort of summer analyst position, and I have some questions. I have what I feel is a decently polished resume but I wanted to polish it up some more before I go to interview.

Should I be including things like coursework or should I be focusing more on my skills and job experience. I have a 3.78 major GPA (Double major in Corporate Finance and Financial Services) and I am currently in the top of all of my current finance courses. I am from a non-target school but I have had internships at UFCW-Employer Benefit Plans (Pension), and a consulting internship. Also I have a job offer from UFCW for when I graduate so is there anyway I can use that as leverage in my interview, or is that pushing it,?

I was also a grocery bagger for six months, in which I was promoted on my second day at work and was going to be offered another promotion but they liked me too much where I was at then..should I be including this grocery bagging experience if it forces me to use 2 pages? I feel that I can relate it to my drive, passion, to succeed etc., etc.

Lastly, I was and now am again my fraternity's co-pledge finance VP. Yes I pledged twice, I dropped out the first time to save my falling grades (which I was able to pull off). Should I indicate that I tried two times? Or should I leave it up to them to ask and if they do then I can elaborate?

Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated!

 
Best Response

Yeah it's for the IB apparently. (Summer 08' Internship it says) Here is a quote from the document "gain exposure to capital markets, investment banking, private investment managaement, asset management, asset management and private equity" I guess I could be wrong about IB but it seemed like it was most likely for their summer analyst program.

I got it through an alumni network. It's either for NYC or SF. I was kind of thinking the same thing when I saw the application. Had to write a about how my personality matched to a required set of personality traits, and how I was doing in school. They have not even seen my resume yet...

 

how are you getting an interview already for SA positions, UBS barely put up the online application for SA positions a week ago. you're definitely lying, esp. if they haven't seen your resume yet.

 

yea that is a bit different from the formal program, but it should be good exposure for you.

I think it may be more of a shadowing program, that lets you see the different Lehman businesses, and I'm guessing one of your alums is more or less hosting it.

 

It's not a summer analyst position. It's a 'summer internship' which sounds like a generous sfsu alumni has offered to let someone shadow him.

Sounds like great opportunity though imo. I find it strange though that he/she will "gain exposure" to that many different things- maybe they just write that for show?

Good luck, tell us how it turns out for you.

 

on your question- I haven't seen your resume but I wouldn't go over a page just to include grocery baggin!

If you have something truly great to say about the experience you should delete something else. Ive seen incredible people shorten their accomplishments to one page, there is always space.

If you want you can pm me, I like to help with formatting resumes

 

Wow thanks for the offer for formatting help. I have a fraternity event ALL day today so I will PM you the document later on tonight (7PST ish). I made the resume last semester and spent countless hours on it. Thanks!

 

i stand corrected man, my apologies. good luck with that, read the vault guide if you can and also try and convey your hardworking nature and passion for finance. good luck man!!!

 

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