Senior applying for full time positions at boutique IBs.
Please tear my resume apart..
The company I blocked out is Big 4. I know you guys will find that cringeworthy, but I figure it will be better than showing no internship experience.
Thanks!
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-Round your GPA up. 3.9/4.0 is mathematically honest.
-What size font is that? IT'S MASSIVE. Decrease by a point or two, expand your existing experiences, and bump one of your "Activities" up from the bottom and expand as an experience.
-Also consider adding a line or two for relevant courses. That's an unadvisable course of action for people with more experience, but right now I can't get over how big your font is, it makes you look like you haven't done anything.
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Thanks for the tip. It's font size 11, but the type is Verdana, which is a bit large I suppose. Is Arial 11 acceptable (see V2)? I tried 10 and it's too difficult to read IMO, but that might just be the web designer in me.
Any suggestions for the content? Is it acceptable to put work/leadership in random order as I did. I put the most important experiences first (what I could talk about most). Investment Management Group is possibly the most relevant, but I had minimal involvement to be honest.
Have a period at the end of every bullet. Use Times New Roman - 10 for the body. Put Proficiencies, Interests and Activities in italics.
The term "freelance" is really subjective and raises some red flags on those grounds - spin it to "independent Web(page) Development" for business-ified effect.
Hmm.. I was hoping that would express my entrepreneurial spirit haha. Do you think it would be better to describe one specific project, so I can take out the freelance.
Freelance puts you in the ranks of high school script kiddies - and self-employment will almost always be assumed to be exaggerated so you may end up in their ranks in the eyes of banks. Independent also is entrepreneurial - it can't mean anything else.
You interned at PwC. You need to add more details about your internship - give examples of the clients you worked on, the analyses you performed etc. Trying putting a 'finance' spin on it.
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