Listing IB experience on resume- advice needed
Hi,
Long-time poster and contributor posting under another account to maintain some anonymity. Currently an IB SA at a large bank in the S.hemisphere, having a little trouble with how to write about my experience on my resume. Internship isn't over for another few weeks so this will be updated later, but wanted to have something with work to date on it because some contacts in the industry want to see it. Appreciate any advice about how to best list my current IB experience.
This is what my resume currently says:
Lower BB City, country outside the US
Investment Banking Summer Analyst December 2013 - Present
• Responsible for work across multiple aspects of a potential $4.0bn transaction in the consumer (beverage) sector, including:
– Extensive company, market and industry research, comparable company analysis, precedent transaction analysis and valuation analysis
– Construction of all presentation materials including trading updates, valuation summaries and pitchbooks for meetings with trade buyers and financial sponsors
• In charge of all preparatory analysis for potential transactions of $200m, $250m and $1.0bn in the industrial and information technology sectors, including the same responsibilities listed above in addition to:
– LBO and sum-of-the-parts financial modelling and valuation analyses
Thanks!
Looks good but the above doesn't make you stand out. Be more specific, include deals you worked on, include the results. Quantify anything you can, need to paint a story - makes it more interesting.
@"WallStreetPlayboys" has the best template/way of setting things up, IMO. Check out the resume post on their blog.
An example for the specific task -> value add -> result for SA/First Year could be:
"Compiled analyst research on company XYZ that suggested gross margin expansion; incorporated COGS reduction into a DCF analysis resulting in a 7% increase in the enterprise value calculation included in CIM"
Yeah, there is a lot more you need to do with it so it can be seen as a unique resume. Resume plays a very important part in getting a job (if you didn't know it). So work on it more.
...do you have any advice?
You can be a Little Different. Don’t be stuffy or too formal with your resume design and layout.
You must strike a delicate balance with your resume. A little creativity is good, but too much can obscure your message.When thinking about how you can spice up your resume, keep your value proposition and strategy top of mind. Be aware of constraints if you will be emailing your resume. You must send a MS Word version because PDFs are not readable by applicant tracking systems (meaning your resume won’t be found months from now when the company scans its resume database looking for a designer). And when you email Word documents, your documents can lose their formatting if you don’t use common system fonts.
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Make the Introduction Count! Once you know what the hiring manager wants, show him that you have it right upfront. Start your resume with a strong profile that summarizes exactly what you have to offer and why you would be the best person for the job. I can’t tell you what should be in here – that will depend on what the manager’s primary concerns are. But you can review our resume samples to get some ideas.
In the end my advice boils down to this: your resume should show that you are the perfect creative professional to meet the target employer’s needs. If you use these tips to make sure your resume does that, you will get more calls.
I was so certain that you were a troll, but then got confused due to the effort you put into writing all this.
Giving you tips even after you've thrown the Monkey-S on me. Be professional!
//www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/wso-investment-banking-resume-template-for-college-students-released-to-the-public
OP, consider starting all sentences with an action verb in past tense, just like the example in Consuming Goods' post. Also, I haven't seen anyone listing "including the same responsibilities listed above in addition to:" in their resume, so that's kinda off for me.
Just curious, is your actual title summer analyst even when you started in Dec?
A suggestion:
Lower BB City, country outside the US Investment Banking Summer Analyst December 2013 - Present • (Conducted) Extensive company, market and industry research, comparable company analysis, precedent transaction analysis and valuation analysis • (Built/Drafted/Updated) Construction of all presentation materials including trading updates, valuation summaries and pitchbooks for meetings with trade buyers and financial sponsors • (Prepared/Built/Updated) LBO and sum-of-the-parts financial modelling and valuation analyses Selected Transaction Experience (/bold or /italics or both) • A potential $4.0bn transaction in the consumer (beverage) sector. o Specific details related to this task/deal, what type of models you built, what marketing materials you prepared, what were the results, etc. • Potential transactions of $200m, $250m and $1.0bn in the industrial and information technology sectors. o Specific details related to this task/deal, what type of models you built, what marketing materials you prepared, what were the results, etc.
Those o are sub-bullet points and were meant to have a small indentation from the left.
yeah he/she is a summer analyst, december is the start point
with regard to uniqueness on your bullet points: how do you show results for consulting work that isn't implementation (the result of my work was a shit tonne of summarised research, verbal insight to senior staff, pretty breakout diagrams and graphs etc which were billed to clients)
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