Going to be sending out resumes soon to get in the game for an SA position next year. TEAR THIS APART! all critiques are appreciated. Thank you in advance!
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Tear it up yourself...
Google Columbia Business School resume format or template. The rest is content and that's up to you and most importantly, the last thing you want is a website mostly made up of your peers to tell you what to put on YOUR resume.
This is pretty decent to be honest, and you have lax on there, so if you get an interviewer that plays lax, you will most likely spend half the interview talking about it, and if he is senior enough, you will be guaranteed a job unless you really screw up.
This looks pretty good. One thing that I would suggest is to put some more detail on your explanations of your job roles. If you can, throw some numbers on there to give people an idea of the scope of your work. Bankers love detail and the job descriptions you give seem pretty generic in the sense that they look like the descriptions of a job that you could take from on-line. Your work experience looks great (better than mine was) and bankers love sports. I was a D1 athlete in college and when you get someone that knows your sport in an interview, you are golden. You just need to remember to answer questions using all of your experiences (work, school, clubs, sports, etc.) rather than just talking about sports for every answer. Many athletes use sports for every answer (I did in the early stages of college) and interviewers can become bored if everything revolves around one activity unless they are extremely interested. Good work though and good luck with the process.
@Trailmix8 thanks I played a year of varsity as well but stopped playing due to shoulder injuries. I took it off the resume but you seem to think its a pretty big talking point..should I include that on my resume?
@Mashaus Thanks for the advice! Do you have any suggestions on how I can add numbers to this? Its ER so a lot of it is writing. I have written some pretty in depth reports which were published.. should I make references to specific projects I worked on?
yeah of course, you should definitely include it. I used to interview people at a BB and when there are a lot of resumes like yours and you have to choose say 30 out of 70 people to interview, I personally like looking at the extracurriculars and see what I find interesting.
Now, my earlier comment was a tad sarcastic, suggesting that you will get in just because you and and interviewers can possibly be lax bros. But on a serious note, I personally would ask you about lax is not just because I played before, but because I know that being on a competitive team takes a hell of a lot of commitment, hard work, and self-discipline (all skills that make a successful banker/trader/structurer/whatever). So even though you only played for a year, still keep it on there, because like I said, when there is a huge stack of resumes who all have great work and school experience, recruiters will often look at the bottom.
Penn State?
@Trailmix Thanks, really appreciate the advice
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