Please help me develop a plan to get a one of the mid-level finance roles that are popping up in my hometown.

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Issues I am aware of in resume

Typo of "numerous"
Typo of "Expectional"
Lack of GPA (Sitting at around 3.0 hope to get 3.15-3.20 by expected graduation date
Graduation date is a semester or two off (May 2014 or Summer 2014)

My Situation
My main issue and hopefully I can address this effectively in an interview is the lack of work experience in the past year or so. I transferred to the state university in 2012 (Think top 15 public b school in the south). The main reason I was able to transfer to this cheap, but relatively pricey compared to alternatives down here, resulted in me being logistically unavailable to do an internship. Another issue is extreme lack of leadership experience and club involvement. I hope to join some clubs next semester and incorporate that experience in my resume.

My plan right now is to develop some of the skills I have listed in this very rough draft of a resume that I threw together in 30 minutes. In January and February, a Global Fortune 500 investment bank is seeking analyst interns for the summer as well as hiring various mid-level finance roles. The institutional director is an alumni of my school and was recently on campus. We have a strong alumni network so I plan to email the recruiter and possibly the director to ask him about his experience with graduating into the workforce as well as the finance industry. My school is the strongest in the state and possibly my region so I am hoping that there is a large majority of graduates that work there.

I understand that for most of us here the competition for the jobs in the finance industry is extreme. However, I feel that in this specific situation the level of competition is going to come from mainly my university. In this specific city the only universities that are competing are state colleges and a directional university ranked in the 300s. Further, I am under the assumption that relative to most cities that my peers will be moving to that this one is very undesirable. A majority of the students from my university live in South Florida so I don't think that many will be jumping on the chance to move to Jacksonville.

I have been somewhat following their strategy to move these roles away from NYC. They have been soliciting tax incentives from state and local governments and the city in my hometown won the bid. Their workforce at that particular office is going to increase by around 300% around the time I am graduating. I also believe they plan to move some of these jobs back to NYC to their headquarters there so this could potentially be a big break. On paper I personally would most likely not hire myself for the reasons I initially listed. I hope to convince the recruiter (Linkedin? Email?) and show that I am very eager to learn and join their team. Any advice and insight on a plan to achieve this goal would be great.

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