Rip My Resume Apart - Advice in general

Hey,

I'd like help with my resume and some advice in general. I graduated with a liberal arts degree last year and eventually plan to get an MBA. I want to work in International Trade/Sustainability something of this sort. I'm thinking of applying for an MS in Accountancy first to get relevant work experience, but was wondering if anyone has other advice for me for what I could do right now, based on my resume. Any advice or corrections would be greatly appreciated.Thanks so much!

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Its pretty bad. Let's make an effort at restructuring, although even Lazard's or Moelis' team might have trouble with this...

  1. Take away your high school, or, if it has prestige, make it take up less space.
  2. Take away the Columbia College / University Bullshit. Its Columbia University, NY, nothing more complicated.
  3. Haha take away "Mastery in Excel".
  4. Compress it, and add more stuff: 4a. Have you no Skills (Technical or Otherwise)? No Leadership Experience? 4b. No Hobbies? no Interests? (I'm capitalizing as hints for sections...)
  5. Make it more beautiful - it looks ugly now. Use bullets, italics, bolds, indentations. Figure out an overaching format and stick to it.
  6. If it is good, include your SAT.
  7. .... Im tired and its late. Hahaha.

Overall, it has some good potential, make some changes, take it to career services, and remodel it.

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Too much white space. Not awful by any means, and you have some relevant experience for what you want to do. For the resume, condense your bullet points to be more succinct and more relevant (i.e. the CRM use can be placed under a separate heading for skills along with excel)

Definitely add some hobbies or interests.

Any research for publications at the World Policy Institute? Add those

Now onto your plans. No idea why you want a degree in Accountancy when you want to work in International Trade. Your experience has no relevance to the industry but is geared towards a policy career so it makes sense to do some research for a policy degree. Schools like SAIS would be great for you and your career path. I get the MBA but honestly, if you want to work in International Trade, getting an Accountancy degree, working, and then getting an MBA and then working in your chosen career is the worst way to get there. Tons of opps in NYC for policy work, international trade, development. Makes much more sense to continue interning, work for a year after graduating and then looking at policy degrees like SAIS (school is very highly regarded).

 

Thanks for the feedback! I have thought about policy schools but I feel like I need more technical skills so accountancy would give me that. Also, I have recently become more interested in working in the business world than for a think tank or gov't. I really haven't had the opportunity to publish any research yet, but I guess that's something I should work on this year. Anyway, thanks again!

 

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