A Former Military Guy - How Do I Stack Up?

To be quite honest, it sucks.

Thanks for the constructive criticism. Anyone else?

Network. There are so many military guys on The Street that can help you plug in. Also, F500 loves military guys. Look to take advantage of the linguistics. A company like Robert Bosch would probably kill for a guy like you in their Corp. Fin. From there IB's a hop, skip and a jump away. Use the search function there's some good topics about this already. Good luck.

1. Get rid of the objectives section.

2. I would put your military experience on top, you can get around chronological order by putting it in a section called 'Leadership Experience', since it trumps your other work. Separate note: can you change your title to something better-sounding than infantryman?

Midas & N-Sixx,

Thanks for the useful critiques. Had a tough time trying to identify an appropriate title to replace 'Infantryman'. Decided on Assistant Training Officer.

Anyone else?

Put your rank. I'd break it in to military experience and professional experience, with military on top. Lose the objective. I'm not clear as to what your activity is. The two bullet points under it seem to be the same. Try to combine the Award and Interest - looks a bit weird to mention that you were an Eagle Scout in 1995, especially with that as your only award. I would put the employer on top of your job titles.

ON my resume, I put my military stuff under a Leadership Experience Heading and then other stuff under Professional Experience...Few places seemed to like the terminology but its your call and take out the part about the eagle scout and add in some ribbons/badges that you might have gotten. I am sure that at some point you got a good conduct ribbon or something.

I'd drop the eagle scout date and infantryman date. I'd guess you are 33-34 years old? You could run into some age discriminiation with that.

tkinds, do you really want to be an analyst at 33 years old?

I am a 32 year old associate and I feel old compared to the people I work with.

You need to gear your resume towards either banking or cunsulting. The bullets for the banking version should come across as tasks that you would typically do as an investment banking analyst (valuation, assembling books, taking complex orders from superiors and executing a plan under duress, etc.)

Networking is the largest portion of landing a job in IB. A guy in your position will need to bust his a*s, but if you talk to enough people it can be done.

Have you thought of taking the GMAT and going to Bschool?