Hi, the past few days I have been preparing my resume for FT recruiting in the fall. I have gotten some critiques from members via PMing and taken their advice on many parts of my resume. Of course, the more people who look at it and critique the better.
I had made a post about whether or not to include MS office on my resume, but when I took it off, I realized my skills section looked too small, so I put it back on my resume.
TL;dr .... Can you critique this?
Wow this is one of the cleanest ones I've seen on WSO... First thing I'd do is 'italicize' your dates to keep the pattern in the lines. For the MM, just keep it to Investment Banking Intern, or M&A Intern or something, remove the sell-side (it doesn't add anything), they'll see from the description what you did. The SKILLS, ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS section looks a bit empty. Also, did you know participate in any college societies/frats? Sports? Clubs?
Edit: I'd try to beef it up more, and not sure on the WallStPrep course. I mean, you've been at a PE firm for nearly a year and will be going into an MM, they will assume you know the basics of accounting/modeling/valuation.
Thanks
I had originally taken off the "sell-side" part, but the main MM I am targeting for FT is one that focuses sell-side M&A, but I see how that title is redundant. I will just switch it to M&A Intern, mainly because I want them to know it was in the same field. Should I make a separate resume to put investment banking intern (for those banks who don't have a main focus of M&A)?
I will be sure to italicize the dates, I forgot about that
I am a certified soccer ref, should I put that under activities, certifications(i had assumed this should stay academic related) or memberships? I also worked intramurals 3 nights a week for 3 years in college, but I have taken that off my resume since it was irrelevant compared to the others. For my community service group, we consistently participate in humane society events, but I figured since it was an activity through the organization, I shouldn't include it on here, thoughts?
I have actually included the prep course because I don't do any modelling at the PE placement agent, but I will apparently have the opportunity to work on a small deal with an MD with the M&A internship, so once I can detail that out on my resume, I will certainly take off the wallstreet prep course
All help is much appreciated!
When I was applying I had several (2-3) resumes tailored to positions I applied to, so go for it.
To be honest with you I wouldn't be holding anything back, the resume is very clean for the eye so fill it up with any extra activities (soc ref, community service, anything) and you should be fine as long as you can coherently speak and not bullshit about your experiences. Ok then yeah, keep the modeling course for the time being.
Change to 3.34/4.00
Thanks! good catch
Any other tips? I will be sending some cold emails out tomorrow
Legit M&I format resume. I use the same format and it works.
Make "statement" plural in your Wall Street Prep Program bullet point.
Other than that (and the other suggestions that I didn't read) it looks awesome
Thanks, I actually left it singular because it is relating to the models part. Is it weird to say financial statement models? Maybe is should say "learned to read financial statements, calculate DCFs, and build M&A models?
I think your edit here reads far better
Also, you used an oxford comma, which reads a lot better (fuck you, AP style)
Oh oops, I will prob go with AP for consistency
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