Hey guys,
I'm going to be a senior at a non-target school -- think top 50 engineering university -- majoring in Quantitative Finance. I have decent work experience (although nothing on the revenue-side), and want to know if my resume is competitive and what I can do to improve it.
And more importantly, which businesses (S&T, IBD, IMD, GIR) I'd have the best chance landing interviews with my credentials.
Personally, I think I'm most suited to trading, however what I'm really aiming for is something in investment management (portfolio construction etc.).
My resume can be found here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13800588/August.2011.WSO.pdf
Please review. Many Thanks.
Sorry to pry, but how did you end up in an internal audit division for the summer with your resume? Seems like you could have done much better, given how solid your resume is.
Is your internship over? IMO, your best bet is to network internally within your bb. Based on my experiences, people are much more receptive to those who are interning there. As long as you had solid reviews at your internship and do fairly well when interviewing, you should have no trouble switching to IMD.
Edit: Didn't see the jersey city part. Might make things harder. I know it's water under the bridge at this point but you really should have taken the barcap offer.
BarCap placement didn't work out otherwise I definitely would have. Ended up getting some "netting" job, i.e. operations.
Also, I didn't try as hard as I should have to land interviews... I was studying abroad in Europe for the Fall-Winter so I was behind the ball game by the time I got back on American soil. I was banking on a Citi S&T internship, however that fell through even with a senior trader backing me so that was a hard lesson in not putting all my eggs into one basket.
Back to point -- definitely trying to weigh the option of staying in IA full-time. Moving out to IMD wouldn't be too difficult, however it will take a while. Think at least 18 months, but more realistically 2-3 years. Other options include staying in IA for a couple years and going to a top 5 MBA, which I have seen in a fair amount of cases.
Internship finished last week. Although, in my favor, IA interacts a LOT with the business so we are in NY a lot (have desk space there as well), and the networking opportunities are there.
But yeah, just wondering if I should play the "safe" route and take the offer, since the door is already open.
What I'd ideally want to do is expedite the process. I feel like I might be able to leverage this experience to a FO position at another BB -- which I know is possible since an intern in IA from last summer got into IBD at JPM this year.
Another disadvantage for me is that I have close to zero alumni on the street on the revenue-side.
honesty, I think your resume is good enough that you shouldn't have to worry. Decide what you want and reach out to everyone possible.
Is it an exploding offer? Strong resume otherwise
Yes, the offer definitely will be exploding sometime in September. I heard that I might be able to defer it, but most likely I'll be given 2-3 weeks from when I do receive it, which will be the end of this month.
good resume, what font is that?
thanks, the font is utopia, an embedded Adobe font in Latex, which is what I used to typeset the resume
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