Resume Critique please - About to start my junior year
About to start my junior year and need some advice on getting my resume ready for ib interviews. Don't hold back! Thanks.
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About to start my junior year and need some advice on getting my resume ready for ib interviews. Don't hold back! Thanks.
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varsity football before summer analyst?
Yeah, I wasn't sure about that. In my opinion, its the most significant/unique thing on my resume and helps explain the 3.5 GPA. I'd like to hear more feedback on that though from others.
For a moment, I thought you didnt have any work experience
overall, great resume. as long as you network+get your gpa up to a 3.5 for junior year 2nd semester recruiting, i don't see why you wouldn't have a shot just about everywhere.
Kidflash - Really appreciate the honest and detailed response. Agree with everything and made suggested changes.
Wrt the SAT. No offense taken, well aware that football was the hook that got me in to HYP. But, my thinking was that when resume screeners saw varsity football on the resume, they would automatically assume that that is what got me in to HYP, regardless of whether the SAT was on there or not. Most of my teammates have 2050 so I wanted to show that my SAT was higher than the typical athlete. Also, M&I says to put it on if its over 2100. I'd Like to hear some input on that from others.
The podcasts from Manager Tools/Career Tools saved me a lot of time when it came to resume-building. Check em out and they have a ton of good advice on professionalism in general.
As for your resume specifically, I'd do a blurb underneath the position for your responsibilities and save those bullet points for achievements (preferably expressed in some quantifiable way) instead of how you have them now.
Example:
Start-up Mobile App Company City, State Marketing Intern June 2012– August 2012 Developed the marketing strategy for startup company’s mobile application and researched effective strategies for attracting our target demographic. Generated over 4,400 twitter followers and 10,000 users within a week
Thanks for the advice, guys...good stuff.
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