Rip my resume to shred-Science guy
Hi folks! I'm a physics sophomore student trying to get an internship this summer . I do have some connections at some BB, but I want to make sure my resume is at least okay before I ask them. Is my resume competitive for a sophomore student ,even though I don't really have any real finance experience? Also, I have a hard time formulating my bullet points, so if you can help with that it would be nice!
Be as harsh as you want! thank you very much!
ps: My summer camp experience feels like a joke, but I don't know what I can put there
Get rid of highschool info and expand on what you did a research assistant. Your GPA might help you since getting a 3.5 in physics is harder than getting a 3.5 in finance imo.
A few things:
Get rid of lifeguarding as a certification and remove Java. Instead of completing, put completed and name what modelling/valuation techniques you have learnt i.e. completed self study course on valuation, DCF and LBO modelling.
Definitely some bullets you can flesh out more. Under research assistant you can definitely add more colour. Also use better words to begin your points. Instead of working 'learned to work independently' just start off with Independently completed etc..
Get rid of HS stuff.
Cool you manage a fund. How big is it, what kind of returns have you seen etc. Try and back things up with figures.
For the camp stuff don't say 'in charge' change it to led. Invented? Developed would be a better word. Could say something along the lines of encouraged participation of campers by developing stimulating games or something like that. What's participated in marketing, and why is that an extension of one bullet?
-Change skills to languages.
-Tenses seem all messed up, recruiting? Why not say recruited...
@CREboyzz" thank you very much!
Agree with all previous points, apart from I wouldn't get rid of HS stuff necessarily and I think the word recruiting works fine with what you are trying to say. Also:
Flesh out your Education. Under your degree (which you could rewrite as B.Sc. Physics) you can add after the GPA 1 or 2 key modules you did and your grades eg Astrophysics (A), just to add some more colour. Also feel like you could move the Wall Street Prep certification into "Additional Information"
Add more colour to your high school eg grades, any societies/extra-curriculars there, maybe any classes you were top of
Add more colour to Research Assistant section i.e. what was your project? How well did it do? Did you get any funding? Adding more info gives a better chance that someone will see something that they are interested in
For the Management Consulting part, it sounds really cool. If you add some numbers in to the bullets to flesh it out, and even add in what your conclusions were from the research, it may sound more complete and real
The summer camp part sounds fine, just watch at the end of your first sentence, looks like you have a half cut off sentence starting with Participated in... and don't say "stimulating games" haha just write down if you saw an increase in membership, any quantitative improvements. Sounds better
Again, wouldn't get rid of lifeguarding and Java points unless you think you can put something more valuable there
Good luck!
@Jutch93" Thanks a lot for all these useful insights! For the tenses, it's because the fund was recently approved by my uni, so I haven't done anything "real" yet. I'm still working on the administratif stuff. For the research assistant part, should I use technical terms? I agree that it is a little bit vague, but if I go in depth I'm afraid that it won't be that relevant ( it was a physics project)
thanks again, I really appreciate your help
@MonkeySeeMonkeyDo23" haha I agree , the stimulating game part sounds funny. For the research assistant part, should I really describe what my project was? Even if there's a chance they won't really understand? If feel presumptuous when I say things like : "Synthesized unconventional super-conductors and changed their anti-ferromagnetic properties by implanting helium ions to expand their lattices"
Thank you very much man! Your help is incredibly insightful
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