Education/Experience order?...plus, Free beer!
I’m sending my resume to a few bankers soon and am wondering if I should move the experience section above education. I graduated spring 09 from a nontarget (small, unknown liberal arts) with econ/finance majors and have a sub 3.5 gpa. But, I have very good internships and I am in a FT corp fin role right now (though it isn’t quite as impressive and relevant to IB as my financial services internships). Should I move my experience section to the top to take away focus from my non target school and sub 3.5 gpa?
If I do put experience at the top, should I keep my Leadership section, delete it, or merge it with education to create an “Education and Leadership” section? I founded my school’s finance club and served on our student investment fund, so I’d like to show those if it’s a good idea. The resume is for boutique IB analyst positions, plus a few other corp fin positions (which are better than my current). Thanks.
bump...I gotta send some tomorrow
Hi! From what I have read/heard, once you graduate from college - experience section should precede education. I am not sure about the placement of leadership section. How many points do u have under leadership? May be you can post your resume?
Cheers and good luck!
Bump...anyone else? I really need to send some soon.
Optimist- I've heard that as well, but since I've only been out of school for 5 months, IB analysts typically come right out of school, and my internships outweigh my current FT experience, I didn't know which way is best. Also, I've posted my resume before so I just thought I'd give the neccessary info for this question. Thanks.
If you have VERY extensive finance experience, keep experience above.
If you don't, leave education at the top
Taking a quick look at your overview, I would say that you should leave all 3 sections separate - education, work, leadership - let them stand alone.
Regarding the order of appearance, I think you should absolutely go with Work Experience, then Education, then Leadership. Reasons being: 1) you've already graduated and have internship experience and FT relevant experience, 2) you attended a non-target WITH a sub-superb GPA - you want to take the focus off of this and put it onto your more attractive points - namely, your work experience. Leadership should come after Education since your Education is still very important, but Leadership should be its own section since you have some strong and relevant leadership experience that you want to showcase and give its own space to shine.
Good luck and I hope this made it to you in time.
Thanks breakingbankers and BankonBanking. Your advice is extremely appreciated as always, thanks for all the help.
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