Please critique my resume - graduate
I'm looking to get into Investment Analysis or Research. Is this CV good enough? How/what can I do to tailor it more specifically towards employers in that area?
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Did you go to a different grammar school for a levels and GCSEs? If no, maybe collate them under one heading rather than separately. Personally, I wouldn't put anything along the lines of "intending to take."
I feel like your attempt at demonstrating your interest in finance is somewhat misdirected. At the bottom of your CV, you've listed that you have tried your hand at trading and investing, but there's no mention of your methodology. I would expand on your trading strategy, and valuation methods, in addition to what sectors you were trading in. This would give any potential interviewer an idea of where your strengths lie, as research analysts typically do not cover many sectors.
Furthermore, I would remove the bit about "10% return" and "3,500 profit." Not only is it cherry picking data, because we don't know how much money you were playing with, we also can't tell what the market return was on average. I would replace the 10% point with a figure of out performance of a benchmark if you achieved that, or nothing at all.
Also, did you only ever begin to trade on March 2014 and quit for good on August 2014? When I read that, it makes me think that you got murdered by the collapse of oil in late 2014, so you aren't including some losses following an easy bull market. You can't just cherry pick stats on yourself like that, because anybody with half a brain could make themselves look good.
I would also definitely lose the high school part of your resume. Your class room performance at that age has no credibility.
Definitely scrap the "intending to take CFA level 1" bit.
All in all, I think you would benefit from tailoring your resume to show more interest in equity research, and making your relevant experience relate more to that field.
I did go to two different secondary schools, I'll remove the GCSE levels then. I'll also remove the 'intending to take CFA Level 1 exams' part, and the figures under 'Investing' and 'Spread betting'.
In terms of tailoring my resume, is it best to emphasise an interest in equity research in the skills/interests/activities section?
Regarding trading, opened up an ISA early March 2014 and a Spread Betting account later that month. On the Spread Betting account, mostly I was taking long positions on Delta, Marriott, LyondellBasell and Schlumberger at the time, took some losses and left with £3.5k profit - had been on nearly double that beforehand. Closed the account as I wasn't too sure about where the market was heading, uni was about to start as well.
I'll try to figure out performance compared to the S&P500 and produce a draft tomorrow.
I've uploaded an updated version, having removed GCSEs, the 'intending to take CFA Level 1 exams' and I have rewritten the lines on investing & spread betting to provide a methodology and rationale for what I was doing.
I am still however slightly unsure as to how I demonstrate my interest in Investment Analysis/Research under the Experience heading.
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