Advice & Critique Please

I'm not sure about the objectives section...I cut it off after the first work-term at university, just don't think it adds much value in a 1 page resume.

misspelled innovation under tool work experience. i would also highlight your strong suits in school. just my $0.02

cut the objective for sure. by applying to a job its implied that getting the job is your objective.

stay consistent with the dates and either right justify them or leave them with the names.

honors and coursework should be sub-section under education

get rid of objective, use M&I template because it looks a little strange right now.

Shiggy,

When you say highlight your strong suits at school, what do you mean? 20-25 hours of my time a week is dedicated towards crew, I don't have other activities. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Shiggy,

When you say highlight your strong suits at school, what do you mean? 20-25 hours of my time a week is dedicated towards crew, I don't have other activities. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Don't put "Summer Intern @ Mumm Products". Don't use @ to shorthand sh*t. Do something finance related this year (clubs, finance internships, etc). I can't even tell that you're interested in finance from looking at your resume.

Remove your high school jobs from there..

Just curious, why don't high school jobs hold merit? If i remove all high school jobs there wont be much to my resume.

Is the only way to convey interest in finance through clubs? I read the wallstreet journal, take economic and financial classes, that does not get the message across?

Thanks

That UPS job won't do much for your BB banking and trading chances. I also think that's the standard (you're 2 years into college, you shouldn't be putting your high school jobs on there). You can fill the empty space with those finance related activities/interests, which you don't currently have.

Yeah congratulations, you've met the minumum requirements by only listing your finance classes. That doesn't make you stand out or tell me jack sh*t about you wanting to work in finance. Plenty of people major in it and hate it or don't plan on doing anything with it.

You think you will get far with breaking into a BB for banking/S&T by half assing it? Wake the fck up.

You did say next summer, so maybe do something important in the meantime to boost resume?

What happened during Summer 2010? Did you not work?

Take out high school related work...recruiters don't care what you did in high school. You have some catching up to do like get a fall internship. Have a focus because you can't do either IB or S&T because then you're going to have to prepare for two different types of interviews and your resume needs to be molded to one focus. You can't have an IB looking resume with lots of IB experience and expect to come off as an S&T person. Also take part in lots of finance related clubs.

all of the comments would add a great deal to the resume, i would put rowing as a extra-cur instead of going into detail about it. also if i didn't have prior work experience, i would talk about what i can bring to the table from school, what software, what classes i did outstanding in, smth like that

Flake,

I respect your input and criticism, however, lets tone down the attitude. I agree on your points, however, I'm working on researching banks, reading financial artices, applying to financial clubs, honors socities etc. I got an internship with a fourtune 200 company this summer, as I started looking late and this was the best offer work experience-wise I got. Now, I believe I have the ability to convey and win a job with a investment firm, be it BB or botique. However, I do need help on polishing things which I have no knowledge. There is no reason to be rude, but thanks again.

@ Keyboardcat

I worked at abercrombie and vans at the mall during summer 2010... hardly jobs worthwhile of a resume with my intentions. I've had a bunch of jobs, however, I have had only 1 job worth shit.

With that said, Should I just remove all shit jobs all together? Atleast it demonstrates work ethic?

Thoughts?

Thanks for advice gentlemen/ladies

Good luck man. No attitude, I just get fired up for no reason.

Quick question. Juniors that do get hired on as IB interns, do they have several interships already?

VandyManQuick question. Juniors that do get hired on as IB interns, do they have several interships already?

^^ Agreeeeed

First, thanks for the input guys.

For the past 2 years I have been operating on a sense of personal entitlement, I think I'm the most brilliant person in the world and therefore thought the internships would find me. However, I have gotten my act together, and although my 3.4 is not bad for Vanderbilt, its not the best. Classes at vanderbilt are damn hard in the math department.

However, the past is the past and its time to bolster the resume and keep improving. Are there part-time fall programs dealing with finance? Does anyone know of anything in Nashville (I can do the research just wondering, what type of institution offers these)? I plan to join a few more clubs with time permitting, crew just limits so many other commitments, but thats what you get when your goal is to finish top 5 at nationals by your senior year.

So to recap: 1) Look for fall intern programs having to do with Finance 2) Join finance clubs & honor societies 3) Keep doing well in school 4) Keep network and cold-calling banks.

Anything else?

Thanks

What's your finance major GPA? You can list that one in addition to cumulative if it's high.

EDIT Also, your crew EC will look good for IB I assume. You still need to be more of a complete package...which means more than just great ECs.

Find some alumni on wall street, that will give you a good chance to impress people

Finance GPA is 3.85, only taken 2 classes Financial & managerial account and coporate finance