Resume critiques/comments needed and welcome!
Hi everyone. Just signed up for the forum, and I already love this place!
I have recently graduated with a BA in Econ, and I am unfortunately still seeking a job. My preference is either equity research or investment banking, but also open to other finance related fields such as trading, or corporate finance. Actually, in this hiring climate, I am open to many finance related fields in an effort to land an entry-level job that can finally get my career started. It's been really difficult so far, and one big problem I have is not having much "real work/relevant" work experience, and so I realize I don't have a lot to showcase in that regard. I've tried to make my resume look as professional as possible, but I still wanted to hear any and all comments, critiques, etc. that you all can come up with to help me out. Here is my resume --
http://razume.com/documents/10170
Again, I will greatly appreciate your help and suggestions. Thank you so much for your time!
overall look is fine.
need to make non-finance activities more related to the skills you will use in a finance position
use numbers to include returns you brought to investment club - one example of way to make more result oriented
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I think your work experience should be above your clubs and activities... but thats just me.
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I wouldn't have anything work related in honors/achievements; in fact, I wouldn't have such a category at all. You accomplished something; congratulations? Just put it under the job or school, you either got paid for it or paid for it, didn't you?
It's your gpa that's killing you; do you have a higher major gpa maybe?
Thanks for the feedback, everyone!
drexelalum11 - Unfortunately my major (econ) gpa isn't better (3.0-3.1, I don't remember anymore, but definitely not better). I contemplated putting a "finance" gpa for 5 courses(I took 4 courses from the bschool - 2 accounting, 2 finance; one econ class that was all about finance) because I did really well in those (gpa of 3.55), but since I didn't major or minor in finance, I wasn't sure if it was ok to do that? Would that be too much of a stretch to put on my resume instead of overall GPA? Possibly put it in in addition to the overall GPA to show that I at least did well in finance related coursework?
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