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expand each work experience with more bullet points and cut out the clutter of so many different positions.
Thank you Beny23. Do you think I should remove my experiences with State Farm and the City of Rockmart? Also, I would be grateful for any career advice.
Thank you.
This is extremely cluttered. It's overwhelming to look at. No offence, I would just throw it in the trash because I wouldn't be able to stand it.
Reduce the amount of detail: BBA Finance (Minor: Political Science) - GPA: 3.4 / 4.0 American University Washington, D.C. Semester Program - Thesis: Can Dodd-Frank and the Consumer Protection Act of 2010 ... (make one line)
Delete: City of Rockmart State Farm AIESEC
Combine sections into one heading: "Academic and Leadership Experience"
Wellstar - delete that shit about gift shops, it sounds stupid and undermines your meaningful experience Student portfolio - Change AUM to "over $250,000", your oddly specific $255k instantly made me focus on the fact that you were trying to puff up $255,001 instead of just reading it for the experience it was
You have a huge amount of impressive experience here, others would be jealous. Present it in a way that's less of a clusterfuck and you'll be good to go. Space between different positions (just put a spare line and set the font size to 5 or something) and put all dates on the left.
Looking forward to v2 of this. Also, you seem like a sharp law and policy guy and are interested in capital markets - have you considered securities law (corporate development teams have a ton of lawyers on them)? Compliance is a growth industry with good job security, and if you think it's interesting that's good for you (most think it's boring as fuck), but the big bucks aren't really there; a compliance executive at a large firm makes $200-300k, not the big bucks that the front office makes. A compliance analyst is making $50k ($70k after 3-4 years experience), so if you're not an executive it's a very middle class life with decent hours.
Thank you Wellington for your input this is really good stuff.
I updated and posted v2 of the resume. Please let me know your thoughts. I Kept AIESEC because I had too much free space on my resume. Also, I kept the whole thesis because I rather let recruiters know the whole title of what I wrote. Last, I don't know what you mean by put all dates on the left (I think it will look funny).
I looked up corporate development and it looks like something I want to do "Most of the deal work consists of reading through documents, modeling (mostly merger models, valuation, and also looking at deal structures such as earnouts), and doing due diligence." However, I think it will be very tough for a non-target school as I go to to break in and I would not even know where to begin. The law firm I am interning for is teaching me securities law particularity in Ga. Compliance seems good per what you wrote, but the pay seems very weak - I want to enter a field in which I can multitask and learn finance(analyzing financial documents, excel modeling) as well as the laws that surround it.
Thank you for your help and any input is appreciated.
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