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Good first run. Your year experience out of undergrad is going to be the most important/the area they are going to focus on the most. That section of your resume is pretty weak. Here are some suggestions:
1) You don't have a single item quantified in your current experience as you do in your internship experience 2) Everyone in RE knows what you did in Asset Management. Listing your responsibilities doesn't do much. Try instead to focus on a few projects that you worked on that made some impact (make sure it is quantifiable). When you talk about those projects, you can then highlight different skills. 3) I personally would not break apart my current role into "leadership". You can highlight leadership without partitioning it off.
Definitely highlight any Excel/Argus modeling as that is going to be your life.
I'm going to have to agree with what AG said above. Also reiterating that you probably shouldn't break out the "leadership" portion as that hardly reads as leadership, more like normal work at any RE firm.
What does everyone think of the "Interests" section? I personally don't do that and I think it detracts from the important stuff. Especially if an interviewer is reading it infront of the interviewee.
Regarding the interests section, I find it can't hurt. Most of the time it will be ignored, but on the off chance your interviewer has a similar interest you may spend half the time discussing it instead of your resume. I spent nearly an entire interview discussing sailing and ended up with the offer.
Solid resume. I agree with the above, especially #2 in Acquisitionguy's post. How much/large is the portfolio? Anything you did that added value to any assets under your management?
SHB - I agree with you. I have never been a fan of the "interests" section on any resume. I think a resume is for experience/qualifications and interviews are to find out more about the candidate such as interests. Unless someone was a national chess champion, or something really outside the ordinary, I wouldn't include it. To each his own obviously though, I dont think it will make or break.
I don't mind the interests section. I have it on my resume, as it can tell a LOT about a person. As long as it is only one line, and at the end.
I'd get rid of the Leadership Experience breakout, as well. I agree with AG...give concrete examples of your work, not a generic job description.
Agree what is previously stated by removing the breakout between responsibilities and leadership experience. Let’s be honest, you do not have much leadership experience 1 year out of UG. You need more quantifiable bullets within your current experience. How many sqft do you cover / oversee for the core & value add fund? How many dispositions have you worked on?
I would also remove your GPA. Kind of low to leave it, and if you went to a target that says enough. If they ask, don’t lie about it, but have some story prepared for why you had such a subpar GPA.
Also, I know you are only 1 year out of UG, but currently your education and everything below takes up about half of your resume. This complete section should be a quarter, max.
Thanks for all the advice. All very helpful and makes sense to me. I have some work to do.
I'm not too sure about leaving my gpa off only because sometimes it may elude to having a very bad gpa. Not saying mine is spectacular by any means, but I'd rather have them see my gpa than assume its below a 3.0. I do see your point, though.
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