Another Resume Review - Getting ready for FT recruitment

At first glance, the resume looks solid. Formatting overall is nice - a few changes: Your name should be a little bigger, I general prefer to stay consistent with your bullet points, as in I would bullet the education section as the employment section. I would take the italics off of your individual skills classes, and instead bold them. For your leadership, don't use "spring 2009" use the actual month and year to the month and year as you do with all of the other experiences. Increase the size of the section titles - "Education," for example. Move "Skills" to the bottom of the resume.

Regarding content, you definitely need to punch up your verbs a bit - "covered, sat, assisted" just don't carry the weight/impact that you need to and should be conveying to the reviewer. Your sentences under employment need some help as well - regarding structure and content - don't just focus on the task that you performed, focus on how you performed it and what it meant to the group/company. For your 2nd experience, move that notable deal to the first bullet, and expand on how you assisted - what did you do. Transaction experience is key and you are not doing anything with it - sell that experience (and don't abbreviate November 2008 - and what happened then - did the deal close - if so, write "closed November 2008" or the like). Get rid of the 2nd bullet for the prop shop "Liased..." For the same position, how did you provide support - what were you actually doing - anything notable - technical analysis, research, etc - don't throw words around - discuss the how behind the what (concisely).

For your research section, I would merging that with your leadership section and expanding on the clubs where you were a leader. As it looks now, you have a bunch of things under leadership, but aren't displaying any leadership experience - just labeling membership or such as leadership. For the clubs that you were a member and not really a leader, I would merge those clubs into a new section with your skills labeled something like "Skills and Organizations" or "Skills and Activities." I would drop the high school stuff from your resume as well, and if you are pressed for room, I would eliminate the bullet from your tutoring and move that down to the Skills and Activities section - you can list it as a single line item as "Certified College Math Tutor - Community College - tutored in X, X and Y." The same should be done for your other clubs - Club Name - Location, if you'd like to include it - Quick few words on what you do there or what the organization does.

Quick run-through, I would lay the sections out as (in order) Education, Experience, Research/Leadership or such, Skills and Activities or the like.

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