Please Critique my HARVARD resume.

http://www.razume.com/documents/2070

I've worked for 5 years as a chef and would like to enter investment banking now. I believe the skills I've acquired as a chef can be transferrable to banking such as:

  1. paying attention to detail: adding 4 grams of ginger makes a huge different as comapred to 5 grams.
  2. doing grunt work: Countless hours of cutting up vegetables for the head chef (in the beginning of my career)
  3. staying up all night: I've had to fly to LA to serve a high-profile client, then travel back to NYC to server japanese sashimi to a MD working at Centerview.

Please help me out with ym resume? Critique it please!

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the superbowl wasn't entertaining enough for you?

The answer to your question is 1) network 2) get involved 3) beef up your resume 4) repeat -happypantsmcgee WSO is not your personal search function.
 

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