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There seems to be a lot of empty space at the bottom. Play around with the formatting and see how many bullet points worth of space you can fit. You should try to fill out the entire page with information (i.e. add 1-2 bullets per work experience)
Will do, cheers
Bullet one: How big was the fund? Bullet two: Be more specific about the type of analysis you were doing. Bullet three: Why do you have a period on this one, but none of the others? What industry were the acquisition targets in? Were any of them approached? Generally, did any of your work lead to anything? Did the fund close? Did they acquire anyone? Did you do any modeling? Bullet four: Investment results? Can you quantify? Bullet five: Reword. Fix errors is too generic Bullet six: Utilize PowerPoint is ridiculous phrasing. "Created presentation" or some shit Generally again, try to find another bullet for your PE work. You're in pretty good shape imo, but that's a US perspective
Love it, great stuff. Will address it all. Cheers
Agree with all of these.
Generally the bullets should be succinct while also targeting: 1. What you did 2. How you did it / what it involved 3. So what -> result -> did it succeed? Fail? did it drive revenue? save time or costs? did it lead to a new relationship? always try to quantify success as much as possible
Totally generic example might be "Conducted due diligence / modeling / whatever on 10 companies in XXX sector with the use of "Software (CapIQ, Bloomberg, whatever) / Public filings / etc" resulting in 2 investments"
Will follow along that in the re-do thanks
Extra-Curricular misses an 'r' and you should have one L instead of 2.
Fuck sake, cheers
I edited my comment, should also be 1 L instead of 2.
Good start. I think we went to the same uni, so I'm gonna fix this for you...
Format - Use A4 not US letter
Typos - MSc and BSc not MS and BS (stupid but HR regard this as a lack of attention to detail...) - Extracurricular (as the other user pointed out) - Maths not Math (under extra-curricular)
Education - Worth listing % or class rank if they are good e.g. First Class Honours (75%) or First Class Honours (Top 10%) - You have to list High School, ignore Americans on this website. HR auto-dinge anyone that doesn't list their A-Levels or equivalent.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - DerivativeHaul has pretty much covered this. Agree with everything - Did you do any internships during undergrad? You have space for one more
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE - Decent, but I would volunteer this summer if you have nothing else to do
SKILLS, ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS - Fine, but nothing really stands out. I would personally add a interest/activity distinguishes you from other candidates
Overall, good profile. Remember to practise the tests, and you'll get interviews for sure. As you are a finalist remember to mix it up between SA and Off-Cycle, as you will not be eligible for SA at some banks (e.g. CS). Good luck OP.
This is great, really appreciate it. Would definitely like to know which bit about uni made you think so?
Also yes I have heard from some alumni that final year students aren't eligible for SA at CS, any other banks that follow the same you know of ?
I did MSc Finance at LSE. The Oxford one is Financial Economics (not Finance) and the Cambridge one is MPhil (not MSc), so I just assumed LSE
I would also change the ambassador bullet points: Bullet 1: "solved their queries" sounds so uptight and "service oriented" -> you weren't their bitch whenever they needed help were you? Use words like mentored / guided / advised. Your opinion and expertise was valued, not demanded. - Perhaps "School of Econ ambassador; advised incoming students on research and coursework and hosted information sessions during introductory visits, acting as a mentor to select students thereafter - as long as you did those things in any capacity as well as stayed in touch with students once they left their information sessions and became friendly with them thereafter you can consider that as mentoring. More importantly, people see it as you being a helpful leader that disseminates his expertise to others and keeps those connections even afterwards.
Bullet 2: It's ok but maybe change it to be a bit more specific similar to above. This will also help fill out some of your white space.
Agreed with others volunteer or do something to add one more compelling leaderships / EC to your CV
Also change "taught basic math and English" -> they are primary school kids we know you probably weren't teaching them linear algebra. Adding "basic" only makes the bullet weaker. Just say you taught math and english and let the reader form his own opinions on it.
Cheers, will make the changes.
I've got a daily newsletter that covers banking and pe news that I started about 4 weeks ago. Got about a 100 subscribers atm. It's something I'm enjoying and think can grow considerably bigger over the next few months. Will add that into the extra-curricular & leadership, would that be something compelling?
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I was clueless the first two years and it was a very half assed effort in my final year to say the least, something I do regret tbh. I'd suggest give it your 110% to get recruited in your undergrad itself. Keep your grades up so you have a shot at masters at target if it doesn't work out.
Any other advice you'd have to make the best of the year but obv with the main goal of getting recruited for SA, please tell away
Why are some of your months spelled out all the way and some are the first three letters?
Didn't know that was a thing, thought you do first three letter with only the months that are longer. I'll make the changes thanks.
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I have mine as just first three letters. Only reason I commented is that my upperclassmen ripped me for it
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