Resume Review - Just finished sophmore year in undergrad
Hey I was wondering if you guys could provide some feedback on my resume. I would like to note that I just finished my sophomore year in undergrad, and have transferred to a different University to finish my next two. I was unsure how to format a resume for a transfer student, so I was hoping the feedback could mainly relate to this as well.
I am also trying to break into IB at a BB or elite boutique for my junior summer.Thanks
1) Education section looks fine, although i have no experience with transfers.
2) For all your work experiences, you've described what you did but not said what this achieved (also remember to use numbers and be very specific).
3) Lump your separate "work experience" & "leadership experience" sections into 1 "work & leadership experience" section.
4) Rename "interests" section to a more broad name. And consider any languages/positions of responsibility to put down.
Thanks. For your #2 point, I have heard this before and I never know what to do. My accomplishments at these places were probably that I saved time for some of the senior level guys/analysts. Also, my current IB internship is not very "deal-relevant" in terms of valuation or anything, but more along the lines of due diligence, research reports on a target's industry etc. Say a deal closes while I am here that I have been doing grunt work for, could I still say I helped on a deal that closed? I feel that this is cheating the system a little because my work isn't really all that relevant to the deal itself, although someone has to do it right.. Maybe you could touch on that. The accomplishments at those other during-school internships were nothing stellar besides learning really, and like I said above, saving time of the senior guys.
Are you getting hands-on deal experience? As in, the process/interaction that goes on during a deal?
Not necessarily. I am doing things such as searching for targets on buy-side deals that we have, via Cap IQ and other resources. I am conducting research on various industry sub-sectors of potential leads, and making full research reports on the industry (similar to ER, but not meant to generate trading revenues. It is a marketing piece used to show potential targets/leads that we know what we are talking about). In those, I did a comps analysis and found public multiples as well as precedent transactions. So... indirectly, I am involved with deals but not really because all I am doing is the research, due diligence and reports that "help" make deals happen, but that's it really. How can I frame something like this? I am not modeling here at all, which also sucks...
Well definitely put that down, put that your work was used by senior guys. Embellishment is generally fine, just make sure it's not OTT.
Thanks for your input Mutt, I trust your advice. Wondering if you could maybe give an example, im kind of stuck. Sorry I don't want you doing my work for me, I just don't know how to frame a bullet point stating something like that in not such a "douche" way, you know? It looks/sounds weird everytime I try to make something like that
Eg: Associate Advisor Intern: Built client investment portfolios on Morningstar software to analyze and ensure the best investment option for the client’s goals; used by {client} to gain x% return over x months Created client profiles on the Financial Profiles software to build extensive reports on the client’s current financial situation; employed by {company} to save x% time when building investment porfolio Analyzed all client retirement accounts to determine which are eligible for a Wrap account; recommendations utilised by {insert position of senior staff member}
That'd be the way I would do it.
By [client] listed in point 1, do you literally mean that you want me to add the name of the client? And also, these numbers would be sheer estimates. I have no idea the % of time I saved him, nor the increased return I earned the investor because it is a retirement portfolio meant for very long term investing obviously.. We were not trading for him or anything. We constructed shitty peoples 401K's into well-planned portfolios that could earn, say, 10% instead of the 2% they were earning. Again, just an estimation. Would that still work?
Anyone have any other feedback? Anything would help. Thanks
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