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  • I don't like this template. I'd stick to the basic WSO scheme - https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/investment-banking/investment-ban…;
  • The blue of "honors & awards" and "certifications & workshops" is the same as education/professional experience, making the structure not really intuitive
  • The three "advanced excel" components are redundant. Just write your IT skills with relative level of knowledge. Like this:
  1. Microsoft Excel: Advanced Level
  2. SQL: Intermediate Level
  • I am stupid, but why are "Master of Science in Finance" and "Bachelor of Science in RE" in the same line? Is it a sort of joint degree? Otherwise I would separate them
  • Add a section for interests - those hiring you want to know if you're an interesting guy and if you have passions beyond RE and finance (sport/arts?)
 

No prob man, happy to help.

  • Template: I personally think that certificates are overrated, people in general don't really care about them, unless it's something serious like CFA. I think it would be more useful to provide more details on what you are studying so, I would break the two degrees (maybe add a note to explain it's a sort of joint programme) and add just one line to mention the main courses you're attending. You have no relevant job experience so it's fine that you have to fill your cv, but try in this way
  • In my CV (I use the WSO template) I have three sections: professional experience, education and "other informations". In the last one I add just one line for the followings
  1. IT skills (like I mentioned before, just add PowerPoint, Excel, Word and any coding language if you know it). 
  2. Languages (I am European so maybe this makes more sense for me)
  3. Certifications
  4. Interests: 
  • Interests: it had happened to me a few times that, towards the end of the interview, the guy just look at the bottom at the CV and sees the interest component. I am a soccer fan so sometimes we just start chatting about this. It's a nice way for them to understand what kind of person you are, apart from the "technical" skills. Just mention sth different from "finance" and "real estate"
 

Completely disagree on certificates in this instance. Showing you've gone through both RE modeling and Argus certification is a huge plus when you' don't have significant previous experience. I've mentioned this in previous threads but we've been interviewing for an analyst and I would greatly appreciate seeing this certificates as we've interviewed many candidates that haven't shown any initiative to learn CRE modeling and Argus ahead of time

 

1. Remove all of the blue

2. Remove the LinkedIn hyperlink

3. Split your Masters and Bachelors sections, unless it is specifically some sort of joint degree that you get all at the same time. You should have BS in Real Estate and what you did in college and then above it the MSF and what you did in grad school. That makes up the blank space you'd get from deleting...

3. ...The additional skills section, which looks like padding to me. All of those are really one bullet point and it is assumed that if you have a Financial Modeling certification and ARGUS Certification, which you list, that you know how to do those things anyhow. 

Commercial Real Estate Developer
 

Who is "everyone" that keeps saying you won't stand out enough? Do they have jobs in CRE or finance? You should be standing out by the content of your resume, not by the font color.

Also, are you starting to apply to internships and that is why you asked for a resume review? Are there any class case studies that you worked on that you could speak about in your resume? Your GPA is great, but from your resume, it seems like you just recently decided to pursue real estate, which is completely fine, but you might be competing against others that have completed CRE internships. You list modeling skills in your additional skills, but have no actual real estate experience, which leads me to believe those modeling skills you have are BS.

 
yvlansmc
  • Everyone keeps telling me in real life that it won’t stand out enough if I do it like regular resume format and plain black, thoughts on my paper getting lost in a stack?
  • Would you recommend putting “Linkedin: First Name Last Name”, just “Linkedin” with no hyperlink, or no Linkedin mention at all?
  • They aren’t joint, but I finish them at the same time as they have mutually satisfying graduate level courses. It’s a combined pathways of sorts, but yes it is not a joint degree
  • Yeah just added that and I thought as much, but figured it’d be good for keywords with automatic resume software

    Thank you so much for your time and help!
  • Those people are wrong and/or marketing majors. Real estate is nowhere near that flamboyant. You can make certain things pop with lines, bolded text, and italics, like you do, but you still want your resume to be buttoned up. You stand out not through your resume, but by the direct communication with the decision makers. 
  • I would just leave it off. Back 10 years ago I admittedly put my LinkedIn on my resume too, but LinkedIn has really taken a nosedive in terms of quality and relevance, in my opinion. Still fair enough to have one so it pops up when people google you, but putting LinkedIn on your resume in 2023 is a bit like a 22 year old telling a girl to connect with him on facebook. It just seems weird. Society has moved on.
  • Yeah I would still split them up. You're a student right now. Education should be your most impactful section and graduating undergrad and grad school are two of your biggest professional accomplishments. You want this section to pop. 
  • That's a fair point, but if that's the motivation I would still work those keywords into the section about certifications. 
Commercial Real Estate Developer
 

Did you really financially model your operations for the pressure washing business or is that BS? Honestly, that bullet point would reek of BS to me if I was looking at this resume. Also, the employees bit seems interesting...$30k in profit over two years but you needed to hire employees? Seems like a part-time, one-man operation to me. 

You state you are associated with NAIOP, CCIM, and ULI, but only as of October 2023. Do you have legit involvement and ties to those orgs or did you just set up a membership online with them to list on your resume? 

You said destroy so being a little critical here but these are things that stand out to me (also some others that were mentioned previously).

 

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