Resume Help, UVM Senior seeks Job

I'm sure some much more experienced people will comment on this, but you're pretty short on actual finance experience for a graduating senior.

LIST YOUR GPA

Try and elaborate, flesh out what exactly you did at Investor's Capital. I don't know how much you can squeeze out of research at a small broker-dealer, but I mean you have to try your best. I would ditch the RA-ship and Model UN... neither have any business on a resume for a aspiring finance professional IMHO.

Also, you're a senior so work experience should come before leadership experience.

Did you take any finance related courses: accounting, corp. finance, econometrics...anything? If so, list them.

If you had 1500+ (old) or 2200+ (new) on SAT I'd list it just to let recruiters know you could have gone somewhere better than UVM...

I hope you're networking hard buddy, it;s going to be an uphill struggle for you, but try and see what products and services interest you (I wouldn't waste my time applying to IBD positions or S&T if I were you until you get some experience under your belt).

Try an MSF program if you can, to get some real finance knowledge.

Best of luck bro,

Thanks for the great feedback -My GPA isn't the greatest - it's a 3.1 ....I was under the assumption that if you don't attend an Ivy-League School, don't put your GPA unless it's above a 3.5

-As far as languages go, Hindi/Urdu are my native languages so I'm not exaggerating that to any extent.

-For my courses, I listed the following in my Cover Letter: economic and statistical methods, financial accounting and calculus.... I have other economic courses, but these seem to be the most relevant to finance.

Can you clarify what you meant by when you said my bullets point need to be quantified? Do you mean I should number my bullets? For the format, WSO suggests I use this - http://resume-videos-00.s3.amazonaws.com/Spin-Non-Finance-Experience-10… For me, is this a better fit?

Any other suggestions are greatly welcome, thanks.

leveRAGE is right. Even though a 3.1 is not good by any means, if you leave it off recruiters will think it's even worse than that.

by quantify i mean use numbers whenever possibly to actually quantify your accomplishments. banking and finance is an extremely analytical discipline, and recruiters like to see actual numbers and results. How big is the portfolio? How have the returns been on the portfolio recently?

i.e. instead of saying that you manage an equity fund, say you "manage a $500,000 equity fund that since inception has grown by 150%"--obviously use real data, but thats what i mean by quantify. if any of your stock ideas have been chosen by the fund, talk about those.."research potential investments resulting in allocations of $xx,xxx. Bankers and financiers in general like numbers. it provides real data.