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Dude anyone who gets this isn't going to even look at this. It'll go right into the rejection pile.

Way way way too many words man. I get you want to list everything you've done but keep this in mind, the people who are reviewing your resume will look at it for seconds.

I work at a regional IB, we get several hundred applications for internships. The senior analyst who reveiws and determines which candidates to setup a phone interview with literally has a stack of resumes in front of him. He'll look at it for 10 seconds max before moving to the phone interview or rejection pile.

 
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Few small suggestions:

  • Put Cumulative GPA instead of GPA
  • For graduation put Expected May 2019
  • Switch Honors & Organizations to Scholarships and Awards: Dean's List, X Scholarship, Y Scholarship
  • Too much accounting courses for relevant coursework, have some finance courses as well. ex Relevant courses: Financial Accounting, corporate finance, Economics, Financial Markets
  • Investment Banking Intern sounds better than spring analyst
  • Too many words (resume seems very crammed), I would take out Resident Assistant experience and focus more on IB internship experience and have more spacing between your experiences
  • None of the interests should be italicized

Overall looks good. Good luck!

 

Some of the things I noticed: - Why do you have your competitions listed in awards AND in your leadership experience. To be quite frank I don't see that as leadership experience. Something more along the lines of a position in a club or something. I would completely get rid of it from your leadership experience portion and instead just keep it in your awards section - You misspelled Ph.D - Don't use an ampersand every chance you get - Don't include many bullet points on things that don't seem as important (i.e. being a RA), you wanna focus on the big things a lot but having equal bullets makes it seem like they're equal - Remove the activities portion on the bottom because that's literally the rest of your resume - Remove the parentheses around the microsoft office suite portion (everyone knows what it is) - I think you should also remove the GPA portion from the bullet points and have it just fall under the education - Your overall GPA is high enough where it doesn't matter to include your major GPA but you can keep it if you want

 

SB'd. I listed them in both leadership and awards because I specifically wanted to highlight the M&A competition as a talking point during an interview. The other two competitions have absolutely nothing to do with IB. Also -- at least the case competitions I've participated in were not part of a club and definitely a display of leadership in terms of taking initiative.

 

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