Critique for M&A internship resume
Hi guys, I'm a final year chemistry student and I'm applying for investment banking internships in M&A advisory and IB in general.
I would really appreciate any reviews of my resume:
http://www.razume.com/documents/27997
Thanks!
That's awful. Use the M&I template.
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Dinged in 2 seconds. Use Brian's template from M&I.
is your market trader job just you working in a grocery store?
Holy Guacamole.
Bullet pints are extremely weak..."analysed data using Excel and made decisions based upon analysis" doesn't explain at all what you actually did or contributed
This too, make sure to quantify your results with numbers wherever possible. For instance, reword to "analyzed a data set including 200 XYZ datapoints to create 4 new ABC templates/presentation, focusing on 3 key trends involving XYZ."
Why are you interested in finance again? "References on request" -- no one puts this on a resume nowadays.
Focus more on the skills, less on the interests.
start by reformatting it
then rewrite it
- i.e. what data did you analyze, how did you analyze it (was it calculating returns, probabilities, other?), and what impact did it have on anything
Show anything that tells me you have at least a basic understanding of finance/accounting
Freelance anything = unemployed --> I would rather see more detailed info on your GSK job
Fresh Produce, Market Trader --> this could actually be interesting, despite it being a grocery store.. what tools did you use and how did you analyze market prices, what was the decision making process to come up with a price?
Are you sure M&A advisory is for you? Why? You actually might fit in more with S&T.. web design, market pricing, weird Chemist background..
Thanks for the comments.
That CV is based on a template on the J.P. Morgan careers website: http://careers.jpmorgan.com/cm/cs?pagename=JPM/DirectDoc&urlname=samplecv.pdf You would think it'd be a good idea to use a company's template.
The main problem is that my GSK work experience was in R&D and entirely lab-based. I assume that the people reading my CV don't want to know about how I made compounds. The analysis was of biological test data and I used it to decide what compound to make next. It's kind of difficult to quantify.
Does freelance always = unemployed? Even if the work was during uni summer holiday?
You're absolutely right lionwater, I do now think I'd be better suited to S&T and I'd probably enjoy it more.
These are kids that will almost 100% get IB jobs from my former B-School, so their resumes will be geared towards IB. Click on any of their pictures, look at their resumes, find one you like and use that template.
http://kelley.iu.edu/IBN/Members/memberViewForm_1.cfm?gradYear=2013&aff…
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