Rising Sophmore IB Resume
Hi WSO,
This is my first time posting my resume up here so any advice would be great. I go to a non-target so I spent a lot of my freshman year getting as involved as possible. I managed to swing an unpaid spot at a small tech M&A shop after a bunch of cold calls and it has really been a solid experience. Something I feel like I can talk about in an interview. For next year I have lined up a transfer into the honors program and multiple on campus jobs (one in the professional development center, one in the technology help desk, and one in the finance center) to help build my resume. I am also looking into doing some form of an off season internship for around 5 weeks in the fall. The goal is to try and make it to a BB next summer. Any advice on the resume/plan would be great and any ideas of what a good off season internship may be would be awesome too! Btw the off season internship would not be during school, I have a little over 5 weeks off so I would do it then.
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Why not talk more about the IB experience that you have? The bulk of your resume is spent talking about leadership roles which hold less merit than work experience. Personally I would take off the stuff you did in high school (your 3 work experience roles then) and expand more about the meaningful stuff that you've done recently.
Looks from first sight as though you're trying to fill it with as many activities as possible without giving meaningful explanations of each.
Also, the activities at the bottom takes up way to much space in my opinion. I never keep that stuff over 1 line, max 2.
Also, since you took your GPA to the 2nd decimal, make it out of 4.00
Thanks for the tips. I am going to replace my high school stuff with my on-campus jobs when they start in the fall. If I were to reduce the stuff at the bottom, what would you suggest I do to show that I was involved in those activities? Do you think just talking about them in an interview would work?
I totally agree with you on my need to extrapolate my current IB experience considering the fact it is my first and only one. I am still interning so I wanted to wait until I finish at the end of this week to really sit down and come up with the points I want on my resume. If you have any suggestions on how to start thinking about what points would be applicable that would be great. Thanks again.
The best advice anyone will give you is transfer out of your non-target.
I can assure you, you will not be breaking into a BB with that resume and you will be extremely lucky to make it to a regional boutique. You have the stats, you should transfer to at least a semi-target. Your school matters most, anyone who voluntarily stays at a non-target is just making it hard on themselves
I appreciate your suggestion. I really like the school I am at in terms of my social life and how I am involved. Unless I could transfer to a full target, I do not think it would be worth the sacrifice.
maybe I'm wrong, but id say get rid of water-cooling as an interest anybody reading that is gonna be like wtf is that
That's exactly what I thought. And everyone who knows what it actually means might asume that you are a gadget nerd
And your only interest then is computer construction? That sounds weak
totally agree with others... you have way too much "noise" and not enough "action". Meaning, why is leadership and campus activities filling half of the resume? To make your "experiences" more appealing and stronger, try to use stronger descriptive terms and maybe elaborate on what you did. Think in terms of the recruiter. If I'm a recruiting what would I think when I read this job description. Is this kid a strong candidate or some kid just doing stuff? Certainly tailor your description to the position you want (obviously).
I would also pick out two activities that pop out and stick that there. The other stuff you have on there... page filler. Don't try to kill empty space with useless words.
Kind of generic but you're young so hope this helps.
Thanks for all the feedback guys. Yea the computer thing is on the because I was applying to work at a pure play tech M&A shop this summer (which is where I am now). For now the leadership and campus activities is filling it up because I do not have anything else to put down in terms of work experience. I think my resume will make a dramatic shift after doing an off season internship this winter because that will be added plus my three on campus jobs.
I do totally agree with condensing down that section and have it more like a list and use the space to expand on my work experience. I have done all sorts of things at this M&A shop, are there certain things BB look for in terms of experience? If so I should probably add those in as my bullets, I am just trying to figure out what to put as points out of all the stuff I have done over the past 10 weeks.
Also Donvan27, do you have any suggestions for activities on that list that pop out? Those are the activites I really plan to stick with and expand on over the next couple of years at school, so picking out the best one would be helpful. Thanks for all the tips guys!
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