quantitative resume
Here is my resume: http://www.razume.com/documents/25130.
I am interested in Business Analyst, Risk Management (Mark risk, Credit Risk), statistical modeling, and any other quantitative roles.
Thanks for your comments and suggestions.
SQL is not a programming language.
You should never have one bullet point.
"improved models' accuracy by 80%" is a nonsensical phrase.
Summary part is awkward. Although you're older, perhaps use the space under Education (which seems brief). Not listing undergraduate degree is weird.
You didn't blank out one of your employer's names under SMPA, btw.
A lot of people call SQL a programming language, including wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
But, I totally understand your point -- it's debateable.
OP -- that's a lot of graduate degrees! What made you decide to get all those?
Let me put the long story short. I wanted to be a professor when I was "young" so i got into a PHD program. The research I did required a fair amount knowledge of optimization, statistics, programing, etc. This is how I got my 2nd Master's degree. I had to take those courses anyway. I met my fellow FE classmate in one of the courses I took. I did not even knew there was a program like this in school. You all know what happened after that from my resume. :)
delete your qualification summary
honestly, your resume is ok. if you cant find a job or land an interview, it's not cuz of your resume.
I barely get any interviews. if it is not my resume, what else is wrong? The positions I applied for are market risk or credit risk type of jobs.
Your background looks strong, but your resume is quite sloppy, tbh. Perhaps hire a resume service since you do not seem to be a native speaker.
In the meantime: - Don't say your analytical skills are perfect; they're not. - You use the word "analytical" twice in the first two bullet points. - The horizontal rules are weird; get rid of them. - The italicized lines with colons at the end are weird; not clear you understand how colons are used. At any rate, the indentation -- four levels! -- is too much. - Your last section says licenses in the title but you don't mention any. - Lists prefaced with a colon-terminated phrase should be plural "Math and Statistical Applications: ..." - Again, this is a quant resume, and SQL should ABSOLUTELY NOT be listed a programming language. Maybe say "Programming:" instead of "Programming Languages:". If you know Matlab, it should be listed here instead.
SQL is a programming language, leave it on there. Even if it may not be a programming language in the traditional sense, there's no other place on your resume where it would make sense to list SQL under.
And wow you have a shit ton of degrees.
Thank you all for taking time out of your busy life to help me out. Here is the list of changes that I will make:
1) get rid of the Qualification Summary section. My purpose of having that was to save the resume screener's time.
2) change "improved models' accuracy by 80%" to "which results a 80% more accurate model for estimating loan values." Does this work?
3) There are two more bullets. It somehow was on the 2nd page on razume.com. It is a one page resume in Word. • Math and Statistical Application: MATLAB, SAS, SPSS, S-PLUS, STATA • Financial System/Package: FactSet, Bloomberg, Moody’s KMV
4) I got my undergraduate degree in another country. It is a good school, but i doubt that people would know anything about it.
5) I will leave SQL as where it is for now. As JDawg said, there is no other place that i can list it. if any of you have better ideas of where it fits, please let me know.
i agree get rid of the qualifications, and try to quantify the various points that you have. every single bullet point that you have should have resulted in a gain in some way shape or form. dont misrepresent the gain but weave it to a point where its accurate but impressive. im sure you can do this. by the way thats a plethora of degrees. best of luck sir. maybe its your cover letter thats holding you back, that is if you're applying of an online database. you might want to look around at local firms and contact decision makers within these firms. aka network.
I mean the resume looks pretty solid, a quantitative PhD is usually well recognized for the types of jobs you are looking for. So, I don't know. Just keeping grinding, you'll find something.
SQL is not a programming language, it is a query language. But it is acceptable to put it under the "Programming Languages" section on a resume.
If this was a software resume, then SQL should not be under programming languages.
It is possible to be overqualified for a job. Having a PhD tends to do that (not for all positions though).You should definitely hire a resume service, just to be safe. Paying a couple hundred bucks to have your resume done is likely worth it -- especially for someone going for the kind of positions that you are.
I googled " is SQL a programming language" and the top three links say yes. I agree that it is not a language in the same sense as C++ or Java. As suggested by dabanobo, I will use "Programming" instead of "Programming language."
Below is an excerpt from the first google link:
Now, it’s not a language in the same sense as, say, Java or C++: SQL is considered a fourth-generation language (4GL), whereas Java and C++ are third-generation languages (3GLs).
Fourth-generation languages are programming languages that are closer to human language than high-level languages like Java.
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