Rip it apart, need a paid job next summer
http://www.razume.com/documents/14503
Specifically interested in trading, hedge funds (global macro preferred, trading or research role does not matter), FICC research, market strategy, etc. And ignore the tag that says Yale at the top, I go to a non target SUNY.
Let it begin.
Wat r u doing this summer? are u a sophomore?
Yes I'm currently a sophomore, and doing the start up research/investment management project as of right now. Apparently I should make that more noticeable in my resume?
i dont think anyone really cares if you play intramural sports
point taken
Pretty standard stuff... Obviously room for improvement but that has nothing to do with format. Strive for continued work experience.
I think its pretty solid. grats
Pretty decent. I can't find anything particularly wrong with it. Though for formatting, I like descending order (recent jobs at top); you've got a blank.com that's March 2010 to present at bottom compared to a few spring 2009. Though, perhaps you're putting the more impressive/relevant stat up top... whatever, it's fine.
You can probably go into a bit more detail about your Fed Challenge bullet points. Maybe notable findings, the results of the challenge, interesting relationships between various macro data/factors, etc. etc.
Here is my final edit. I did decide to change the activities to chronological order because it's probably much easier for someone looking at it to see what came first vs. what I think is most important.
http://www.razume.com/documents/14509
1) multiples-based not multiples based 2) FX trading should not be in your interests. the fact you're sending the resume to an FX trading job posting speaks for itself 3) large market capitalization agricultrual chemicals equity is WAY too wordy and doesn't even make sense 4) multiples based valuations for financial services companies (not company) 5) be careful talking about making $ from the euro debt crisis in your personal account using PROPRIETARY fund research. sounds sketchy as hell and if i was interviewing you it would certainly raise a red flag. proprietary means the company's not yours 6) Constructed research models with IMF data... if I was interviewing you I would grill you on this shit. I would ask you about every facet of your research models and if you didn't know what you were talking about... ding. If you did know what you were talking about, I would ask why you wasted all that time and didn't just look at the yield spreads 7) whether or not to buy or sell should be whether to buy or sell 8) in your PM experience you mention NOTHING about risk management and if you want to get into FX controlling risks is huge...adding some bullets here about some RM stuff you did would be good talking points in an interview 9) Created a slide show about the economic crisis... If you were applying to MBB this single line here would send you to the top my friend. But you want to trade FX - no one gives 2 shits about your slideshow and reading that in a FX interview would actually make me lol. 8th graders around the country are doing the same thing in their civics class 10) as an interviewer, the one problem I would have with your resume is that I have no way to gauge your quantitative abilities (and no, biz stats doesnt mean shit they even make marketing majors take it). If you scored under 750 on the SAT math I would take it again until you get above this, preferably closer to 800 though, so you can put it on the resume. even with that, there still won't be much mention of your quant skills, which is a great way to ensure you get some killer brainteasers and mental math questions
after you clean this up, I would focus on networking which means you need to get on LinkedIn and start getting ahold of some alums for informational interviews in the fall. also, consider picking up a minor in math or stats to show you can handle the quant side, at least take a few classes. a lot of people you will be competing against for SA spots in FX and rates are going to be math/stats/eng/CS majors
best of luck
I'll reword some of the things mentioned, but I did generate research which I profited off of in my personal account, and would have no trouble explaining. Maybe that just needs to be reworded.
The research I did was far more in depth than yield curves, I can document seeing Greek issues far before any of the recent news, and looking at a yield curve wouldn't have done much, as Greece's yield curve was fairly steep until earlier this year.
I am adding a math minor but until I can officially declare it I'm keeping it off for now (and yes I'm going to take a legitimate statistics class).
You naively claim that risk mgmt is a post-crisis buzzword, but when the shit hits the fan I'm going to side with one of the most successful traders in history, not some sophomore kid at a NY state school who can't break the 95th percentile on the SAT and that thinks the possessive form of company is companies
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