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pere9

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

 
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  1. take off that SAT score, it's a fine score, but it's a bit low. combined with your gpa+the fact that you're a varsity athlete signals to resume screeners that only got into school for football. i hope you don't take offense, it's not that i think you're stupid: it's a good enough score that you're smart enough to handle the work at HYP, but it's lower than what most students there get unless they're hooked in for admissions.
  2. stick in an econ major gpa if it's higher
  3. break out into work/oncampus sections instead of lumping it together
  4. i don't like your bullets for football a. too informal (i did this, that, etc.) b. you don't show results; resume screeners don't give a shit what you learned, they care what results you had. i would just stick in 2 bullets (1. committed 30 hours a week in conjunction with school or somethign to that effect and 2. past awards: blah blah)
  5. for the re pe experience, take out the 'our.' does not reflect well on a resume. experience looks great though, particularly for a sophomore. (note: you better know your valuation/finance downpat, cause interviewers are going to grill you on that, particularly cause you have more finance/valuation experience than a lot of SA recruits)
  6. too much white space for the sub-bullets in the re pe experience. push further left and make the indentions smaller.
  7. mobile start-up: same comments about my/our/etc.
  8. combine actvities+volunteer work into extracurriculars
  9. interests are a little too generic and your varsity football experience+interests make you seem like a jock, which is fine, but some people will think you're one dimensional - maybe flesh out some other interests that aren't sports/fitness related?

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

"He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on collision."
 

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