Help Touch up my Resume
http://www.razume.com/documents/27038
If you have any advice please let me know. There is no GPA listed, I am already aware of that. Thanks
Aug 17, 2012
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Your skills and interest section is a joke. You need to eliminate all of those lines and put ACTUAL skills!
No one frickin care if you think you're hard working, everyone has a frickin ego and thinks they are better than they are. Put some real programming, database skills in there.
Your investment portfolio info. needs to go. First of all, if it is real I find it hard to believe its a $100K plus. Put down under interests you run a virtual portfolio so you have something to talk about or change the word "Real" or "Paper". Its just something to laugh at when somebody reads it.
Other than that, network!
Will work on my skills section or remove it all together, thank you for your opinion.
My personal investment account is worth 100k+ and is actually my primary source of income at the moment, I bring trade sheets when I get interviews to back up my case.
Agreed - your skills/activities/interests section is a joke
You are giving way too much detail for CSI. No one's going to read it.
And how did you get 100K? Did Daddy spare you some change?
There are way too many qualifiers in there. "Forever changing markets"?
Im guessing youre a bit older given that you have been bartending for 10 years, why not go to a prop shop, pay a couple grand for training and trade w/ them while studying for the CFA then try to move over to s+t or a hf after a year or two?
"And how did you get 100K? Did Daddy spare you some change?"
Not really your business, but I have saved my whole life and have had a strong interest in investing. I started out small and hit a couple "lucky" positions, I now have more experience and are in much less aggressive positions and continue to grow my portfolio. (WTN, GCE, EXN, SGR, AVL all on the TSX were huge contributing factors to my success)
"Im guessing youre a bit older given that you have been bartending for 10 years, why not go to a prop shop, pay a couple grand for training and trade w/ them while studying for the CFA then try to move over to s+t or a hf after a year or two?"
I have not been bartending my entire time at the hotel, only the last 5 years. I have worked at a prop shop while I was in school and had the intentions to continue on trading asian markets while studying, however they did not get the operation up and running. Since graduation my personal account developed and my fee's got lowered and I found it just as beneficial to trade on my own. I am currently persuing my Certificate in Equites Trading and Sales offered by the CSI. After that is complete (hopefully 6 months or so) I will put more thought into the CFA.
Thanks for the advice so far, hoping to hear from more of you. Your input and or criticism is appreciated.
Hey just food for thought, one of my undergrad profs was a big time commodities trader for a couple different BB back in 80s/90s and when asked about "auto-dings" on resumes, interviews, networking, etc the resounding answer was "Do NOT come off like you are wealthy, your parents are wealthy, etc... every time we came across someone like that we couldn't help but think they felt entitled, wouldn't hustle/grind, etc." ... this being, it doesn't matter if you are wealthy or poor (banks recruiting at Ivies and most colleges for that matter are well aware that most kids are well off) but don't go flaunting it around and give them a free pass to make assumptions.
So you MAY want to consider doing something about the 100M part. On one side I understand you want to portray that you are personally managing a large sum of invested capital. Good, and I get that... but on the other side people who read your resume may automatically think "Did Daddy give you some cash?" DING.
My solution: focus on the gains you've made not the account value, thats the point of invested anyway right? You mentioned that you built and grown this portfolio from the ground up, and if that's the case you should be able to list "outperformed market by X% over... X% annualized return since inception ... etc etc etc" and if what you said is true then those X's should be quite impressive on their own.
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