Pick Apart My Resume
Hey all, just a little back story so the resume makes sense. Was accepted into a target right out of high school, due to extenuating circumstances I had to transfer after my Sophmore year to a semi-target. I haven't attended any classes yet at the Semi-Target, hence the N/A under academics. Any suggestions for this? Also, feel free to pick apart the 'Additional' section, it's kind of sloppy.
Thanks team
P.S. I know my GPA is low, you don't have to tell me
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You could re-name 'Additional' to 'Activities' or 'Leadership'...and I would also cut a lot of those bullets. I would suggest keeping/emphasizing: -Started using the virtual stock exchange as a Sophmore in high school, and currently running a personal portfolio of $2,000 to date (PS it's "sophomore") -Completed investment banking workshop at “Leaders of Investment Banking” conference in (Financial Hub)
^If you want to, you could even put these in a separate section and put 2 or 3 bullets underneath with more info.
The sports and leadership are definitely good, but you could simply list the sports you played and at what level maybe under their own 'interests' section
It could also help to have a 'Skills' section where you can list your Argus experience - along with this, maybe delete the description of it - chances are, the person looking at it is familiar with at the least the existence and if not, you could tell them about it in an interview. I would also try to dig in your brain for any other technical skills you might have (Microsoft excel, valuation, Bloomberg terminal, capital IQ, etc) - if you don't have any of those, look up some tutorials online and try to tinker around on a terminal or something, it'll help a bit.
Delete the class grades from where your schools are - they can see the grades when they ask for your transcripts.
If your major GPA was higher, I'd include that but be sure to throw somewhere your cumulative or mention it if they ask.
Take out the Academics line altogether from the new school - you could just mention "Beginning fall 2013" and save space.
I would also try to slim down a lot of the bullets under your two activities - it's a lot to read. Try to keep it between 3 and 5 bullets for each internship, focusing on the most impressive/valuable projects you worked on.
The dates for the top internship you had look kind of funny - maybe find some better way to state that instead of having the dates on two lines.
Overall the format is great (or it will be after you trim some stuff out)
Hope this helps! Good luck
Oh and with the Portfolio - don't mention how much is in it, include the return on it. If you started sophomore year with $5,000 in it and now it holds $2,000, that's not a very impressive activity to talk about in interviews. If you mention "Had an average annual return of X %" it'll probably sound better
Awful, use the M&I template
More specific suggestions: take off high school, get rid of the entire "additional" section, no one cares about your life story or any of those irrelevant fun facts about yourself
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