Will I get grilled if I list relevant courses?
I want to list relevant courses since my major is not related to banking, but I'm worried if I do, I will get grilled and honestly, some classes I took a while ago, so I won't be able to remember everything lol.
Thoughts?
I think it depends how unique and "relevant" these relevant courses are. Example: - You list financial accounting: yes they will probably ask you accounting technicals, which you should know regardless but this is a pretty standard class so I wouldn't expect any crazy questions. - You take econ, calc, stats, anything that shows quantitative skills, but not super applicable: they won't ask -You take a financial modeling class or anything directly applicable: they will probably ask what type of modeling you learned, what you got in the class, etc.
So I guess it depends on how unique the class is.
I've been grilled on similar.
If you have high level quant classes and know it we'll fine. But if it's an ib interview the guy across from you only uses algebra so it's pretty useless.
Me personally would ding a resume for listing finance courses as a finance major. Again there are exceptions for cool classes or heavy quant if it's relevant
The only exception I can think of is if you did like a bankruptcy class and are trying to do restructuring or did a fixed income/derivatives class and are interviewing for a fixed income desk.
Just in that it's a discussion point and shows a specialized/focused interest in the space.
I want to list my relevant courses, because I want two sections for my GPA. First one is going to be my cumulative GPA, and second one is going to be the GPA for my relevant coursework. I want to include this because I want to show them that I did really well in all the courses I took relating to banking so that they might be less reluctant to ding me when they see my cumulative average is only decent (3.5ish).
Thoughts?
Keep in mind that you don't know who your interviewer is and his/her background. I've heard many stories about how someone put that they knew Spanish on their resume and the interviewer started speaking to them in Spanish.
True, but will someone really get dinged for forgetting some stuff he learned 2 years ago??
If you've forgotten the material, the class is no longer relevant
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