Please help by destroying my CV! UK Econ grad from semi-target. Barely any 1st round interviews from ~50 applications

cant see bud

Thanks, didn't realise! Edited

I’m sitting on only a boutique experience and likely end up with a 2:1. The fact that you’re not getting any looks makes me shit bricks.

Now that's a stacked CV. Did you apply for grad roles or internships this year?

Apply for Off-cycle's now if you haven't, you're a shoe in. Assuming your technicals are decent given degree modules.

I can understand why you're not getting IB looks at a stretch, but not getting AM interviews with this CV is ridiculous.

Thanks for the comment. I applied for some internships as well as grad roles and had no interest. If you think think it's solid, could there be anything else in my applications that is dragging me down? Poor quality of cover letter perhaps? 

You have great experience, but your bullets could use some work. Try to quantify more of your work on the AM stuff. Also, delete the part after BJJ, the hr screener doesn’t need to know you’re a white belt and it’s cute but a little unprofessional.

Also, Facebook isn’t the company, should be Meta, please fix

That's quite the CV you've got there mate, not really sure why you're not landing anything. Side note, are you at Bath by any chance?

Could be more structured, 3 bullet points for each experience, like your most recent experience. Also, add 3 bullet points to your other experiences section. There are plenty of transferrable skills to AM/IB, or take off that section.

There’s no need for exact dates too. Keep it to month-month and year-year for education & placement.

Some of your bullet points could be more quantified, e.g. for your placement 'Produced market research for X amount of clients'

You also have enough experience not to need a leadership section.

Thank you for everything so far. Any more feedback would be appreciated

I looked into altering my CV a lot recently, and would give you the following critiques:

- Try keep uniform number of bulletpoints per experience - it looks much better & well organised.

- Try highlight key information in education, currently it all seems to morph into itself. If you're a recruiter you want to be instantly scanning what's important i.e. "first class predicted".

- Adds into the above but improve your wording. An example being "Requiring excellent time management & org skills" in the final line of your most recent position. Absolutely anyone can say that. How can you make it specific to you?

- Further adding to the above, I would say try quantify your results better. Perhaps it might not be possible, but adding numeric figures would definitely help recruiters not only visualise your contribution to work, but also remember your contribution easier. Here's a test, which of these phrases would stick in your mind better: 1) "increased sales by 30%", or 2) "helped to increase sales"?

- Change your date formatting. Maybe just me but instead of "20/09/19 - 01/06/23" I would change to "Sept 2019 -  June 2023". Reads better + no need for specific days, only the month & year.

- Get rid of the "other experience" section (provides no use to recruiter given you have much better experience) & instead develop a brief set of bulletpoints under your 2 leadership positions (better set of transferrable skills form these positions).

Hope it helps and good luck!

Below average Resume if you are applying to FT IBD roles at BB / EBs. Probably decent if you are applying for AM roles.

Check attention to detail, and the quality of your bullet points

Without IB internship experience, no way anyone is hiring you for IB in this market. That's the reality of it. They don't need many people and there are way better candidates. Job market sucks rn, so you might have to lower your expectations here.

Regarding CV, everyone's said what I would've.