Roast my Resume
Hello all.
I will be heading into my junior year after summer and am looking for some advice on my resume. I was late on recruiting and am trying to land a 2023 IB SA position (likely MM). Please note that I also had a "Golf Cart Attendant" job for 2 years that I could include if anyone thinks it would be beneficial.
Thanks in advance!
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Overall: Smaller font by -1.5pt (?) for everything. Between sections of work experience, you can make that spacing a little smaller.
Education section: move the GPAs to right-alignment on the line with your minors. Put your honors line under education, so it should read Dean's List x4, ACT 36/36, XXX school scholar. Dean's List is kinda implied but if you have no other awards then whatever. Put your training line above the honors as it is education as well.
Work/leadership experience: Overall, every bullet point is pretty wordy, so make every bullet point more concise English (e.g., assisted in developing proposals and analysis associated with proposals = developed proposals and analyzed xxxxxx). Try to round to one line on those where you can, again conciseness so: Obtained technical knowledge in valuation methodologies = Upskilled in valuation, accounting, and financial software to prepare for a career in finance (rounded to one line). Usually in college you have a section for work experience and another for leadership in all your clubs. With the free space from conciseness changes, you could make another section and add your golf cart attendant job and your other activities.
Skills: if you have any projects associated with R or SAS, put them in parentheses
Interests: you are interested in baseball team, what does that mean? MLB, competitive club baseball? Fitness and weightlifting are the same thing. Fill this line up, it's freestyle
Wow, this is great advice. Thank you so much for the help.
As a follow-up: The baseball team is an MLB team.
Also, do you think it would be worth minimizing "Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Finance Major" to just "B.S.B.A., Finance Major"? Or do you think I should move Finance Major down a line and add it with my minors or just leave it be?
Also by moving my GPA up and right aligning, should I then italicize it like my major and minors? Is this a normal practice?
Do you think I should leave the word "Cumulative" on there or just word it as "GPA" and "Major GPA"? - I don't want it to look too cramped in my education section
In general, do you think bolding the city and italicizing the dates is a good practice?
Thanks again. I greatly appreciate it
1. alright cool, if you're an MLB nut then put "Major League Baseball". If you're just a fan of a specific team put "Team Name".
2. It's normal to put the full degree name, but I shortened mine to BBA. Based on my resume, I would have (exactly as formatted):
Line 1: University - City, State [left aligned] Expected Graduation: xxx [right aligned]
Line 2: BSBA in Finance (Minors: Statistics, Economics) [left aligned] GPA: 3.9/4.0; Major 4.0/4.0 [right aligned]
Line 3: Training
Line 4: Honors
You have a slightly different format with your city and state so it's up to you, but this format saves you a line rather than having five lines because you had a line for your minors. It does mess with the consistency of your formatting.
3. You're italicizing and bolding the right things, looks nice. No need to italicize anything in the education section though.
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