destroy this resume!!!

I appreciate all criticism and suggestions! I am currently at a non target majoring in both finance and accounting. I will also graduate next April. Right now till graduation, I have a internship at a long only investment manager with roughly 1 billion aum, doing equity research and corresponding grunt work. I hope to continue doing equity research/portfolio management after graduation but I am also interested in REPE and Restructuring type positions.

I feel I should add/ remove some experience bullets, I think I'll remember more projects that I worked on. Also, should I remove CFA lvl 1 candidate? I will be taking the exam this December or next June depending a situaiton or two. Finally, I got accepted into the student managed investment fund, can I add this to my resume or wait until September?

Here it is!

http://www.razume.com/documents/20496

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Dude, this resume fucking kills. On your bullets, though, concentrate on 'impact' i.e. 'analyzed cash flows for company XXX that was being acquired, blah blah..as a result saving $xxx.' you get the idea

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Quantify, quantify, quantify. How many companies? How big were they? Same for the loans. When it comes to impact, by how much was operating leverage improved?

 

Are you guys all building your resumes on razume.com using their builder tool?

Because 90% of the posts in this forum have resumes with identical formatting... Not sure if there's a 'standard' Wall Street resume format that I'm missing?

 

At first glance it's a great fucking resume (a lot better than mine) simple to the point.

second glance..its too simple and too much white space. since this is for entry level you need to include ECs

Maybe take your activities and make a section on leadership, what positions you held, what did you contribute? I think you should add student fund on your resume (along with dates)

Try to remove some bullet points under your work exp (what maktec5 said) too and add ECs to make you look more like a well rounded person.

 

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, they have really helped.

What I did:

  1. Added a section under experience for my leadership position in the real estate society.
  2. Added Student investment fund class, stated September 2011 date and put generic duties
  3. Reworded and and quantified some of my bullet points,especially the development intern position (where I remembered lol).
  4. Nuked distressed investing and turnaround from interest, added soccer and travel.
 

Yep, I guess it is. Should I nuke relevant course work? I have been getting people who have told me to keep it and some who are telling me to get rid of it.

 

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