Junior Non-Target Resume Critique

Hi I am a junior at a highly non target school looking to hopefully have my resume critiqued. Please be as brutally honest as possible since my GPA isn't very good so I most really highlight my experience. I'm trying to land an investment banking internship for the summer and have a few interviews lined up that I want to be ready for. Thank you
http://www.razume.com/documents/13662

 

Shoot for boutiques. What city are you looking for. Get on the phone with high school and college alums and start working the network. Don't ask for jobs. Just ask to go out to lunch and learn more about what they do. Two ways into banking: get recruited from a target or network your way in.

 
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Overall looks pretty good, a few comments (but these may just be personal preferences of mine)

  1. The formatting under education seems inconsistent with the layout of the rest

  2. I am troubled by the bulk of your "experience" section and the small size of your "education" section. I know you mentioned you're from a non-target but at this point, a big part of your life is still school. Not sure your 3 month internships should take up that much space compared to your 3 years in college.

  3. I have generally only seen the organization name as the header of each job and the title/role as the subtitle but I could be wrong

  4. A lot of your experience seems VERY part time and non-profit oriented, seeing as how you held 4 of them at the same time. The idea is quality, not quantity, especially when you're still in school. I would recommend putting for-profit roles first as they would be more relevant and framing non-profit roles more as extra-curricular activity.

 

Tanks for all the advice. I would love to get some type of experience in New York BCbanker but have also been targeting boutiques in Atlanta and Miami. I am Hispanic so I qualify for a few diversity programs I am also pursuing at BB banks. Thanks monkeyman2010 I actually switched up the formatting a bit from your advice and think it looks better. Please let me know what you think. I am also thinking of changing it since I have just started at the Florida Attorney General's Office in the Anti-trust division but haven't been there more than a week and haven't done anything. Should I wait or just put it in my resume?

http://www.razume.com/documents/13670

 

A few things I think you could change

  1. add relevant coursework to the education section. Like monkeyman2010 said, you have been in school for 3 years, so that section should be a little bigger

  2. try spacing it out a little more. maybe change the font to something smaller. i feel that its a little crowded. just put a space after each work experience and each activity

  3. also I don't think the font for each of the companies needs to be bigger. keep it the same as the other fonts, but just make it bold.

  4. also, you used Aug. instead of August, but used December and not Dec. Stick to one. I prefer just using Aug 09-Dec 09 or something like that.

Overall, the bullets are good, just need to fix the formatting.

 

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