During my senior year I discovered through my work with our student managed fund I wanted to work in ER. I won't go into the details unless somebody is curious, but since then I have been working relentlessly to network my way into the industry with some luck of getting interviews, but no offers. The interviews seemed to go well as I made it to the final round of interviews with most of them, but no offer so far.
A few quick points of my background:
1) I graduated in 2013 from a complete non-target, mediocre GPA.
2) I took an offer at the time I felt was best for myself (highest pay by a margin of about 35%), but in a non-finance related industry. I was hired with the understanding that I was pursuing options in finance and that I would hopefully be leaving after a year or so.
3) I had no idea what I wanted to do until my final year in school. My university has focused intensely on corporate finance and accounting type roles, with little focus on investments until fairly recently (2011~). Hence why I do not have an internship experience related to the field.
Any feedback on my resume would be great to include advice on how to improve it, what I should be focusing on to improve my chances, telling me I suck and will fail (usually encourages me to prove you wrong), etc. Thanks in advance for feedback. Let the bloodbath begin!
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Only have time for a cursory glance right now and may take another look later, but a few things pop up immediately:
1) I'd personally put the student fund experience at the top of your experience rather than your current job to highlight it. Not everyone will agree with this but I'd personally probably do it. You can order resumes non-chronologically. 2) Try and list more defined achievements where possible 3) Some (most) lines end in full stops (periods) but some don't - be careful of formatting/grammar etc. 4) Be careful saying you're an expert in excel unless you really are, and keep in mind ER associates may have a different scale than you do (not sure if that's true, but I'd be careful). This isn't really to do with getting the job, but more what happens if you get it - if they ask about your excel skills and you show up and it turns out you aren't an excel expert in their eyes, that'd be embarrassing - again, you may be an expert, in which case you can ignore this, but something to be aware of. 5) Some people will tell you to make the formatting exactly like the WSO/M&I template but I think yours is ok, I know bankers (and I bet ER guys) appreciate seeing a slightly different looking resume every once in a while
What's the difference between your language skills in spanish and russian? make more clear. put your personal investing at the top of your personal section as a separate line item and expound!! How long have you been doing it? Returns? companies you have purchased? talk about modeling skills - DCF, operating, etc.
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