Resume Review: Non-target, no finance work experience

My ideal job would be as an equity research analyst position but I don't think that will happen right now with my lack of work experience. I am basically looking for any entry-level job or internship where I could get some work experience relevant to becoming an analyst in the next few years.

Feel free to tear it up, any advice would be appreciated

http://www.razume.com/documents/19974

Updated Resume (5/16/2011) http://www.razume.com/documents/19996

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Not many people probably saw this yet so edit the "elite" sales rep part, you'll get ragged on for that. It's kind of a mess,not the format but it looks like a course schedule at a random school. Try getting positions within some clubs and get any kind of job you can make sound relevant.

 

Thanks. Yea all I am really looking for right now is a decent job relevant to finance to get some more work experience on my resume.

 

Going to be tough, but I might suggest that you change academic experience to just "experience" and include your work experience along with it. Get rid of "Student" and just have "team member" - that makes these experiences seem much more legit than like some school project you were on. And maybe make activities its own section at the end? The formatting's good.

 

Gonna be a rough road OP, but if you can break in you should definitely post in the WSO Success Stories forum.

Your formatting is fine but your work experience isn't actually work experience so I'd rename the academic experience section as per Schwarzmnegger's comment.

Best of luck man,

IG

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