Resume Review Please - Regional bank

Haha.

I expected as much, care to expound up on your prolific statement?

Mother Merrill Lynch?

good luck...maybe this will get you into a regional bank in miami...idk.

general advice: try to relate the bullet points to IB and why they matter. like saying you increased AUM by 13% is not the best way to put your work experience...bankers, such as myself, would either not buy it or assume you started off with a very small aum.

just some thoughts.

This would be a perfect resume if you were applying to become a cop.

In general your resume should be geared to that specific field within IB. However, some bullet points are generic in what you would expect someone to say when applying for any FS job. In the future when given highlights/bullets of what an IB division is looking for revamp your resume so your bullet points encompass those needs and more of what they are asking for in an canidiate. It is not the recruiters job to link your past skills in way that can help today.

List your undergraduate and your MBA. If you had a concentration in your MBA list it, "MBA, Finance"

Do not let the school you went to influence your career goals and asperations. IB are always looking for individuals that come from different backgrounds to enhance the thinking of their particular division. Keep hustling.

Thanks NotYou, spot on advice and will set it up as suggested. I have an international business concentration which I'll add.

You should have come here and asked these questions before going to get your MBA. You are fighting a tough uphill battle after getting your MBA at UNF. This doesn't mean you don't have a chance, it just means you have to be realistic. Start networking with anyone and everyone you know in finance. Cold email people, your goal should be to send out at least 100 emails every month to people you don't know between now and January next year.

You say you want to start at an international IB in Jan 2012 but you say your graduation is spring of 2012. You either mean you want to start working in May of 2012 or you mean you graduate in winter of 2011.

If you have the ability to transfer, do it. Sorry, but breaking into banking from a super non-target like UNF is going to be very hard, especially at the post-MBA level.

Good luck.

I will be graduating fall of 2011. the res was drafted before I scheduled this. Networking is my strong suit and with Rotary, Freemasons, and a few political campaigns it shouldn't be completely impossible. We have a strong Merrill and Deutsche presence here that I am tapping currently, but believe me, I have no pie in the sky dreams...hence I'm not shooting for BB etc...besides, there's always consulting right?

Yes, but you said Intl IB is your goal. Don't give up on it just because you're at a non-target. Int'l IB will probably be very difficult to break into, but getting in with a smaller firm might not be terribly difficult. You won't be making as much as the BBs, but you'll have to start somewhere.

As for consulting, if you mean just general consulting for Deloitte or something, that's possible. Bain/McK/BCG aren't really an option, though.

There are plenty of jobs that parallel IB, maybe not pay as much, but get the same kind of experience. You could always try getting into Corporate finance somewhere and treating it like IB. If you go to a company and spend 70-80 hours a week in the office when everyone else is spending 40-50, you will find yourself learning a shitload and probably moving up the chain very quickly.

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I'd probably take off the "rifle/pistol marksmanship" as no bank needs a rogue analyst