Rising Senior: Resume For Fall Internship Position
Hey guys,
I'm a rising senior at Boston College studying economics with a strong interest in finance. I have no finance experience and I'm trying to use my prior experience as an intern in law to emphasize the qualities that recruiters look for. This is going to be an application for a fall-semester internship so I'm hoping they'll be able to see past my lack of experience more so than they would for a FT position. Anyway, if you don't mind taking a look at my resume and giving me some feedback it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot in advance.
How can you be a four-time member of the Dean's List yet only have a 3.5?
fresh fall: 3.00 fresh spring: 3.144 soph fall: 3.667 (deans list) soph spring: 3.534 (deans list) jun fall: 3.73 (deans list) jun spring: 3.80 (deans list)
those are off the top of my head but i know theyre right at least to the hundredths. comes out to a 3.482
I think it's a solid resume, but you really need to gain more Financial experience. Maybe trying cold calling a few AMs in your area and ask for part-time work?
He can easily have a 3.5 and be a member of the dean's list for 4 semesters. Anyways, do you have any other work experience or finance related activities in school? You could also separate your study abroad experience and actually list the university that you attended in the same format as you did with Boston College.
My other work experience was as a swim instructor the summer after my senior year in high school. It seemed irrelevant because I did nothing whatsoever finance/money related, so I took it out. I've been a legal intern for the last 3 years, as I thought I wanted to go into corporate law (M&A) but I definitely have found myself over the last year or so really gravitating towards the finance side of things.
Also, no activities that I have worked with previously but I believe there is an investment club (it might be an unofficial one IE not sponsored by the university) that I could try to get involved with this year.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Thanks for the feedback man. That's been my biggest concern. Problem I see now is timing: it's almost August, and fall internship resumes are due early September. It's gonna be a squeeze trying to get something going in the next month to add to my finance experience. You ever heard of AM firms hiring PT/interns on a short-term basis like that?
For ideas about adding experience, or about format?
As far as format goes, I pretty much used the mergers and inquisitions resume template to reconstruct my original one.
To be honest, if I had seen this resume independently of this site, I would have said "what position is this guy even applying for?" The fact that you haven't even joined a finance or business society of ANY sort is a bad sign. With your remaining year of school you NEED to branch out to student relevant groups if you want even a remote hope of breaking in. Right now I would say you're battle is pretty steeply uphill, luckily you can use your final year to fix that. It's not too late for you.
In regards to content: -Remove "single-variable" to your calculus course and just say "calculus." No offense, but nobody will be impressed that you only took basic calculus, so you need to stay general. -In your Law internship, remove words like "Tasked with" and just put "Ensured..." The extra verbiage is unnecessary and this language makes it seem like you had a greater hand in processing client requests, etc. -Add an interests section. -I agree about splitting the Study Abroad experience into its own university section. -The dates on your Law office position are super confusing.
Thanks a lot man for that response. I think you're definitely right about the fact that I really need to show recruiters that I have an honest interest in finance, and that I didn't just happen to go to a career fair last month, see the Goldman Sachs booth and decide its what I wanted to do.
I was concerned about the law internship dates too. Wasn't sure how to phrase it, but basically I worked there over winter and summer vacations each year. Considering removing the winter part just to keep it simple.
Definitely going to add the abroad uni as a second entry in education.
About the interests section: how important is it? I find that my interests generally are not that applicable to the field (footbal, baseball, basketball, alternative rock music, travelling) so I figured recruiters would be saying to themselves "why would i care?" Would you recommend it anyway?
Thanks again for the suggestions.
Regarding the interests section. I think it's necessary for a lot of people because they need to not seem like complete finance robots. For those people, it's nice that they've worked at two BB IBs, gotten a 3.9, and cured fucking AIDS, but they need that line to prove that they're still people, so they add activities that they like to do independently of their career motives.
I would say you don't need to add it if you really don't want to. The fact that you're in a cultural club, have extensive volunteer experience, and have studied abroad will probably show that you're still human and that you pursue things for your own enjoyment still (as opposed to pursuing things on a resume). That being said, there's always the possibility that the person interviewing you has the same interests and that could be a way for you guys to hit it off. The section certainly wouldn't hurt you, to say the least.
You need to dip your resume in some glitter. Your resume is lacking, giving you friendly advice here please get that resume straightened out.
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