It's a trainwreck, lads (resume)
Before I even link this, I want to make it clear that I'm aiming for at best a MAcc or Big 4 internship with this. I'm perfectly aware that if I used this for IBD I'd get the phone number of the recruiter's contact at the local Taco Bell. That may also happen with Big 4, but I'm at least going to take a shot.
http://www.razume.com/documents/21310
Rather than blotting out personal info, I used filler because I want to know if I'm making any dumb faux pas (and to hopefully make you, the reader, crack a smile). I hope WSO is smart enough and gives me enough credit to pick out the trash and see what's serious. My main concern is with my education section.
My freshman year I was in another major and got a 1.8. Not helping my cause any, that major was Honors Engineering (something that my school is a bit more known for than accounting). Discounting my freshman year, my cumulative GPA would be about a 3.8, but it still has obvious lingering effects on both my cumulative and major GPA. That's why I included the bullet about semester honors. The required career development class at my school did not ever recommend listing relevant coursework, that's something I picked up from posters here. If the grades I received in those courses were A, A+, A, A+, A, A+; could I list them? Also, I've seen some people here put standardized test scores on their resume. I got a 1570 (out of 1600) on the SAT. However, that was when I was 15, and I'm 21 now. Could I get away with it? Anything to show that I'm not actually pants-on-head retarded.
Thanks a lot for any advice you have. If any poster here has ever wanted to encourage you to really lay into their resume and pontificate about why they suck, it's me.
Purdue?
You are being way too harsh on yourself. A 3.4 with a minor in physics from a Big 10 semi-target (this makes me think Northwestern, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, in that order) is definitely good enough for IB at some places. Since you didn't get an IB internship last year I'd say BB is probably out of the question, but start looking at Chicago MMs and boutiques and I'm guessing you can land an interview.
Not a single one of your experience bullets shows a tangible result of your work. That's great you advised and analyzed, but without showing what that accomplished, you might as well have been on fapdu all day.
Make your name a larger font size.
I don't really like your bullet indents, margins and formatting in general, but the shitty content is the most important issue right now.
Im a 3.4 at a big 10 semi target. Doing a fall ibanking internship in nyc. Big 4 is not out of the question. Get rid of objective too
There's a TON of whitespace in that resume. Those bullets need to be fleshed out dramatically (like olafenizer said). Those internships read like paper pushing nonsense that you got paid $10/hour to do.
Delete objective. Add SAT score.
Just put May 2012 (get rid of August 2007) next to your school name.
Employment:
How did you analyze the commodity index tracking mutual fund sector? What specifically did you look at/analyze?
What did you advise managers of specifically? Details, without writing a novel, are key here.
How did you gain exposure to the CBT floor? What did you do? Did you shadow a pit trader for a period?
Under the IT job:
Elaborate on how you identified, analyzed, and fixed problems while interfacing with the client (university employees). That's much more relevant to IBD than maintaining a 'supercomputer.'
Activities:
Did you do anything else for the accounting association? Those bullets are pretty vanilla and really don't need to be there.
You need a skills and probably an interests section. Your resume reads very poorly as-is.
The heart of the problem is that the internship was some highly informal thing where I spent all day reading shareholder reports for the commodity funds. The fund the firm was launching should be either on road show or having the prospectus written now and won't launch until the end of the year, hence no real results. My trading floor exposure was the manager of the firm giving me a tour. My IT job has me sitting in a back room until my boss tells me to rack a server, or run a cable. And I haven't done a damn thing in my extracurriculars, I loathe them and am really only in them to put a something on the resume.
I'd really like some help with this, PwC has a posting at my school that I'd like to jump on, but they need a resume in the next week or so. I downloaded the M&I template and am working with it, but I really don't think I have enough to fill it up reasonably well. As I said in the last post, my school-year job and summer internship don't have a whole lot in terms of results or applicable skills, they are/were grunt work, and I'm in extracurriculars solely for the purpose of listing them on a resume.
Nobody responded to my thought of listing grades next to relevant coursework, should I take that as a no? I plan on studying a bit of Python to add it on a resume, hopefully I can talk about it enough to make it look like I know my shit but never have to apply it. Would that have any value at all in accounting? I was also considering studying a foreign language, any recommendations on that? I figure there's roughly a trillion upcoming finance/accounting students who speak Mandarin, either natively or otherwise, likewise for Spanish.
Do everything NorthEastIdiot said.
Forget foreign language, you'll need a lot more than a year of study for that to be worth anything.
If your school year job is not relevant and/or is just grunt work then you need to quit and find a new job. Intern with a local PWM, insurance agent, anything for fucks sake. Also if you're in extracurriculars just for the sake of putting them on a resume, then quit those too because you probably wouldn't be able to confidently speak about them and why you participate in them if you were asked in an interview.
Bottom line, you answer your own question as to why your resume sucks. You say you're in things just to put them on paper. This may sound really philosophical or whatever, but maybe you should find something that actually interests you and/or gives you useful experience, or at the bare fucking minimum try to maximize the value of what you're doing now if you can't be bothered to find something else.
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