resume review - money market trader - 3 yrs exp
http://www.razume.com/documents/10771
more focused on getting it looking good for submission to b-school, but any input helps
disregard the university tag... my school wasn't available in the dropdown and i couldn't clear the field.
thanks everyone
Does helping your son with his homework really make it on to a professional resume? ;-)
this isnt really a resume, its more like an essay
"Seasoned capital markets professional"
So I'm assuming you have a bunch of other experience in capital markets in addition to the 3 years you've been in this most recent role?
This thing is trash - look at other resume examples and completely redo yours to match a similar format to theirs, then re post it here.
thanks for the feedback Hollywood/SpaceMonkey - looks like I've got some work to do
wtf is this drek. "integrated bloomberg..." seriously?
throw it out. write a real resume.
also, why would you admit to living in brooklyn? you're applying for a job on wall street (/mba), not looking to be cast as an extra in the next indie music video
hmmm, i cant think of that many german banks.
bullets would help: * managed the wholesale funding of the bank's.... $1b/day * did blah to mitigate blah risk * in charge of blah project * proficiency in VBA/excel macros?
you have good experience, probablly wasnt easy for you to get either. Find some good sample resumes and make yours look like those.
$1bn in the US money markets isn't something to be proud of.
SIV financing from November 2007 onwards? Does it really require that much skill to sell debt from a related sub back to the parent (westLB/HSH)? "Hello, asset backed finance group? any buyers yet?" "Nope, everyone stopped buying in August 2007" "I guess we'll keep buying it"
noexplode: thanks for the recognition! the spread between going to the university of north texas and ending up as a trader at a bank on the periphery of wall st is greater than going to a target UG and ending up at a BB, I think.
eric809e: size: you're right, $1bn isn't a lot (although it's not tiny), but for people not in money markets I imagine the number could look good. siv: hah. there is probably a better way to phrase this, but yeah, it's a silly circumstance.
I've taken the input you guys provided and started over with a simpler, more streamlined resume that I hope is a good starting foundation
I feel like it doesn't have a lot of 'sex' or 'pop', and i have had a difficult time finding other resumes of experienced traders, so maybe you guys can provide a little insight with activity descriptions.
thanks a ton!
http://www.razume.com/documents/10794
note: for some reason, the justification of the locations and date ranges on the right side aren't working properly. in the word document, they're properly situated.
It's better than what you had before, but all the bullets still need work imo, quantify them more to show the difference you made and the results you achieved. I don't know what a trader's resume is supposed to look like but yours feels like its missing something. Your second bullet under 1st experience, it sounds like a task you did just one time, and i don't know the significance of it.
Imagine if you are explaining your job to someone in conversation, and that person insults you by saying your job is worthless, you would of course reply angrily "no what I do is very important.... because.....(maybe you mitigate risk, maybe without what you do the bank can't function)."
"Work and Leadership Experience" --> "Experience" alone is enough.
For your job, you can take "NY branch" out, since you already have New York, NY(do abbreviate this).
You have two money market trader positions, were you promoted or did you switch banks? if promoted, highlight it (not literally) cause b-schools really like people who are able to advance at work.
For second bullet under 2nd experience, "that is still in use today" doesnt work, explain why it's still in use, the program you designed must be good for something if its still used, explain that.
I think everything should be past tense. check on that with someone else.
For relevant courses, you don't need that many, if any. It's only an indicator of what you might be familiar with when applying for jobs straight out of college, and you already have experience.
Student Investment Group, I would put that under a leadership section along with other things you have done, but other people can tell you better where it should be. Either way, the two bullets under it don't tell much, maybe quantify them more to make things stand out. ex. "made investment decision for portfolio that led to XX% growth of the portfolio (there are much better ways to phrase it)."
I wouldn't put "PC gaming" for interests
After you are done with your resume, convert it to a pdf. file, you can probablly do it online somewhere so you know everything is in their right place in the end.
damn... 150 wpm, thats like 3X mine...
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