So here's my story. I'm a junior right now looking to land interviews my senior year for a SA IBD gig after I graduate. I know this is a little unorthodox, but I kind of dug myself into this mess. I set my sights a little too high during junior year recruiting. I had no idea it would be so hard to find a SA IBD position coming from a non-target state school until I found this website, which I did about a month ago...
Once I finally gained a realistic perspective of my situation, it was too late to get an interview for even a corpfin internship, so this summer I will be a management intern at a big box retailer. I figured if I can't work on my hard skills, then I might as well sharpen up on my soft skills. I know a lot of you will want to tell me to do an unpaid internship at a regional boutique or something, and I honestly have no problem with that, but the thing is I'm renting an on-campus apartment at my school because I live in another state and the landlords only allow us to sign 12-month leases. I need a paid internship so I can pay the rent for the summer, so I'm going to do this management internship and hopefully try and teach myself some financial modeling during my free time.
So here's my résumé. I know I'm not following the M&I IB format that a lot of you love, and I plan on formatting it using that template later, but I'm simply looking right now to see if the content is good and if the wording is ok. I haven't added my upcoming management internship to it yet. Any constructive criticism is welcome. Thanks in advance.
There is nothing on your resume that makes me believe you will get an interview at an investment bank.
Here's some tips:
-Find an internship at a small boutique IB/PE this summer (I know you said you can't but you need to try harder) -Get an internship (paid or unpaid) during your Fall semester at a boutique IB/PE/HF -Do Wall Street Prep or one of the other wall street training programs (DCF, M&A, LBO) so that you can put that on your resume -Do a senior thesis on a finance-related topic and put that on your resume -Learn VBA/macros and put that on your resume -Get involved with the Finance Club at your school and become President (not VP of Operations)
Start networking with alumni from your school on Wall Street. Ask them for informational interviews. Fly to New York and meet with them to start building a relationship. Repeat 4x.
You're sure to get a few interviews if your name is Jackie Chan.
@ Alpha Trader. Thanks for the advice. Definitely good stuff. I'm going to see if I can get myself an unpaid part-time internship for the summer ( 20 hours a week). Thing is, I already accepted the offer for the management internship, but since it's a retail gig, the hours aren't set in stone. I will work 40 hours a week, but I might be working weekends, early mornings, and late nights. I'm not sure if a boutique IB is going to like that. I will definitely start on all the other stuff you mentioned, though. Thanks.
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Your objective is to make the HR resume screeners and bankers feel confident that you can do the work and that you are motivated. If you have a few related internships on your resume coupled with a bunch of finance-related skills in excel, leadership in finance club, and any thesis-like publications then you will come off as motivated, smart, hard-working (in my book).
What is your GPA and what city do you live in? You said state-school and I can tell that you do not want to disclose the school...
GPA is on the résumé. It's a 3.7 cumulative. I live about equal distances from Philly and NYC (about an hour away from each). As for school, it's a state school in the mid-Atlantic region (think Penn State, Rutgers, Maryland). It's a school where BB's recruit for operations and nothing else.
Most important thing is to find alumni who will put their reputation on the line for you and get you a first-round interview. You need to convince them that you are worthy with the details that I listed earlier. You need a summer internship at an investment bank this summer. Do whatever it takes to get it -- you don't have the luxury that the top target students have.
Oh, you mentioned a senior year SA gig -- you can't interview for a SA position, you'll be interviewing for full-time only.
I am referring to BB recruiting...Why would you want to intern for a place during the summer and then be jobless? You'd be going for a full-time spot.
I guess what I meant was that I wouldn't mind working unpaid out of college if that's what I need to do to break into the industry.
Don't be soft and stop thinking you are setting your sights too high
-Once you get an interview at a BB or MM/Boutique, you just have to kill it.
Start preparing for interviews now - Get the prep books from this site and vault (I see you have M&I). -Know more than everyone else -Have a better personality -Bring an investment idea (ER style report) or mock pitchbook that you've done with you on the interview and show them
Do you get my drift? Go above and beyond to show the interviewers that they need to hire you.
Take care and good luck
Thanks, man. I've been eyeing the Vault IB guide for some time and I think I will buy it this weekend.
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