Looking for an IBD SA position with a Big 5 bank this summer. Will be meeting with a number of people next week and want to get your opinion on my resume. Two things that I'm pretty sure will come up: 1) My GPA isn't on my resume because it is awful due to family issues during the first couple years of school. I can explain it to HR/people I meet with - I don't think it will be an issue. 2) I know I should quantify things as much as possible - as soon as the things the firm is working on are over with for the internship position, I will be able to add them, Until then, there isn't much I can quantify.
Appreciate any comments or suggestions.
All in all a rather solid resume for an undergrad. How's M&A in Canada at the moment?
Thanks for the tips. I will try to clear up some of the wordy parts - I know what you mean.
M&A in Canada is relatively slow in terms of new events. Quite a few ongoing deals though.
Just our of curiosity if you graduate this year why aren't you looking for a FT role?
How bad is your GPA? If it it's a low 3 and you don't put it I'm going to assume it's around a 2.0 so I would be careful with that.
Graduating December 2012. Lets me pick up a Summer Analyst role and make the switch to full-time in January 2013. Hopefully being off-cycle won't affect me too much and that I will be able to make up for it with networking.
Ah, I read 2012 and assumed next semester. Good Luck.
Posted a revised version with the Internship worded a little differently. Thoughts?
Next three posters with tips get a silver banana...
Yeah really wordy, recruiters are going to look at this and see that you've had solid experience, but nothing at all to quantify. They're looking to compare you to joe blow McGill, Ivey, graduate, and without test scores/ GPA that's going to be hard.
Take for example your third bullet under the risk arb job, what sort of opportunities were identified? What was the size of the trade? Was it executed? Did it make money?
Same for the second bullet profitable trade ideas, how did this relate to $$?
You have to realize that the finance world now is sick competitive and there are 10x more resumes out there then there are spots. You have to catch the HR person/ 1st year analysts eye quick.
CFA Level I Candidate goes, no one cares that you can sign up for a test. CSC candidate, again same with the CFA. Your resume is pretty strong overall, it just needs to be quantified somehow. If your GPA/ SAT sucks, then take the GMAT to at least give them some sort of baseline level of IQ. Plenty of places immediately junk resumes without SAT/ GPA, and I think you're probably smarter than that.
Thanks for the tips FutureBanker. Will definitely try to quantify things once some of the deals close.
Overall a good start to your resume. Have you looked into internships in the UK? I know a couple of Canadians who've gotten into BB's there.
A mix of general and nitpicky advice: 1) Where is your GPA? Unless it's below 3.0 (out of 4.0) you need to include it. It looks like all of the prev posters have noticed this too. 2) Your title for your first experience is inconsistent with the other two. reword to something along lines of "XYZ Analyst, Risk Arbitrage Desk" XYZ could be the division (Investment Banking?) 3) "Formed" isn't a very good action verb. try "Developed" instead 4) Some of your bullets are unnecessarily cluttered with jargon. What is "PAF"? "holistic Vendor Management Framework" should be reworded in a simpler way 5) Your interests should be only one line. It looks way too wordy, especially since your Activities is 2 lines too. the sports and the "Member of Women in Capital Markets" should suffice.
good luck.
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