How can I make myself more competitive?

Hey everyone, I'm a fairly recent WSO member. I was hoping to seek out some advice about my current resume. I just have no idea if its competitive in todays college admissions/internship landscape.I'm looking to break into M&A preferably in the healthcare sector. Alternatively equity research seems really interesting.I'm a 1st gen college student, I really don't have anyone to talk

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Just like Captain Rex suggested, post your actual resume (hiding your personal information and name of employers).

Here's some general advice:

1) Use the standard template from Mergers & Inquisitions (link here)
2) Cold email people on LinkedIn and ask to set a quick phone call
3) Stop putting down Chang and Aaron, it won't get you far

Best of luck!

 

Thanks for the advice. By no means was it meant to be disrespectful. My point is, there are some incredible qualified people applying to these schools.

 
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big ego with no substance, immature (only 21? grow tf up), bad gpa, nontarget, no connections, yea i would say you’re fucked. Chang is going to fuck your girlfriend so be nice to him.

 
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I was looking at your application, I would ding. Broadly, there is not a thing in there that indicates any sort of interest in finance in general, let alone M&A. Which in itself would be fine but your story is quite disjointed. Culinary -> retail banking + entrepreneurship. Ignoring the community college aspect (I don't care, I appreciate everyone has different circumstances, but others will), that GPA alone closes the door for me.

There's not enough in there for me to be confident you're actually serious about a banking career and not just "checking it out". I would not want to take the risk on someone who I think could flake if they don't like it or when the going gets tough.

 

I think thats a fair take, very interesting to get insight from someone in the field. Thank you, i’ll work on it, would you recommend a investment club or some other group at the college to show that interest?

 

I think thats a fair take, very interesting to get insight from someone in the field. Thank you, i’ll work on it, would you recommend a investment club or some other group at the college to show that interest?

 

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