please review - for front office IBD

Somebody told me earlier that listing your political preference is not a good idea, because you never know who will see your resume.

Wall Street is mostly heavily Democrat, but there are also many closet and not-so-closet Republicans. Lloyd Blankfein makes big donations to Democrats, Henry Kravis makes big donations to Republicans. However, don't put political parties directly on resume, perhaps Political Science Club or another euphemism (don't take my word though I am not an interviewer). Politics can come later for when you settle in and discuss and joke around with colleagues.

I like the resume, nicely formatted. Adding one line listing appropriate technical skills, language, interests would be nice but it is not necessary. Depends on what those skills are and how proficient you are at them and whether its worth trying to squeeze it in.

See below a list of political donations by those who put in "investment banker" as career:

http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=occ&occ=investmen…

Left-leaning individuals and Right-leaning individuals on Wall St are all capitalists, but of different breeds. It's pretty evenly matched as far as political donations. I've talked to a few democrats that work in NYC in finance and investment banking and they say they are "raging conservatives" compared to their friends.

I don't know how much of the social liberal sentiment is sincere or a form of defense and hedging political bets, but it is there. I'm a libertarian and it occasionally pains me to see such bleeding heart socialist mentality - but hey, the world's not perfect.

It doesn't matter what political affiliation you have, it is illegal for it to be a factor in the hiring decision. Take that for what you want.

As for the resume, it is decent but needs work.

You should have your GPA under LSE.

You should have your education dates formatted like the rest of your dates

The first bullet under commercial lending intern is the worst bullet I've read in my life. Just lose it.

Don't say you won money in an intern contest, that makes it sound like that is all that motivated you to do excellent work.

Under the paid staffer role, as I said before, make the job title sound more interesting. Discuss how you pitched, and any metrics you used to track switched voters/closes/etc.

Under the NTU thing, don't say you used excel on a daily basis. Talk about what you analyzed, and how you used excel to improve workflow processes

If you're saying you screened for undervalued equities, don't say you used P/E ratio. That's not how value investing works. Don't start your bullet point with "helped," make it something more active that implies responsibility

Calculating intrinsic value isn't done by running comps, just say you ran comps. Calculating intrinsic value implies that you calculated the precise value, which would mean you should have taken the price to book ratio at the very least, as I insinuated above. Also, you should have identified a catalyst that would cause that undervalued stock to reach its proper valuation

You'll notice you used the number 2 in one bullet and the word two in another. It should be spelled out both times, but above all it must be consistent