Resume Review - Trying to break into IB or PE
Please critique my CV. Looking to break into IB or PE, but having a hard time. Thanks in advance.
Please critique my CV. Looking to break into IB or PE, but having a hard time. Thanks in advance.
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No return offers from any of those places?
1 to come back for another Summer, 2 rescinded when the Banks started restructuring (i guess i just got really lucky with my choices there)
That's good then, from my peers experience the first question in every single IB interview is about why you did/didn't get an offer to go FT. Depending on when the offer to return for summer explodes, I'd probably take that and keep recruiting for FT. If you get a FT offer they can't fault you for taking a FT offer over an internship.
That is true, thanks.
Anyone else? Please do your worst.
Looks like you used a thesaurus to much in my opinion. "Conducted comprehensive valuation analysis"... you don't need to say comprehensive. There are many instances where you use an unnecessary adjective that just makes the content more wordy and long. Otherwise its a good looking resume, I might also simply your bottom portion a bit with wording. For example, "stock trading via mock trading account following value investing philopshy" is WAY to long. Just say 'value investing mock trading'. You overdo it a lot on your resume but sometimes simple is better because it puts more focus on the actual important content.
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