Hi everyone,
I am a rising senior who is attempting to break into IB for a full-time role. After reaching out to some of my connections I have heard three different things: keep the format I have, add a headline, or add a summary statement. I am having trouble deciding which is the best way to go. Please try and provide as much feedback as possible. Thank you :)
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Lots of little problems. Just took a glance. Don't include your SAT percentile; everyone makes a judgment based on score and knows 1400 is good. You switch from first person in Work Experience to third person in Leadership Experience. Your work experience bullets had an implicit "(I)" as in "(I) Lead a group of three other interns ..." but then suddenly you go to "(He) Assists club members in ...." Don't do that and stay consistent with first person.
Second bullet of Finance and Accounting Intern role, why are you using the article "the" in "the foreign exchange transaction." What foreign exchange transaction? In a normal sentence it should be "a" but since this is a resume you should just delete articles
Capitalize your interests because just about every other list you have is capitalized. Don't say "a basic understanding of R." Find a brief replacement. Don't misspell "programming."
Edit: Also, third bullet point of Finance and Accounting Intern role: remove the widow, which is one word by itself on a line. Either add more words or cut down the sentence. Senior bankers in particular seem to hate (typesetting) widows and orphans.
And stay consistent with your Oxford commas. You use an Oxford comma in Coursework but then don't have it for your first bullet of Finance and Accounting Intern role.
And be consistent with periods. I don't like having them at the end of bullets, but at least be consistent no matter what you do. Are you going to end your bullets with a period or not? Your bullets under Bachelor of Science have no periods, but then suddenly we have periods for Coursework and then periods for the first two bullets under Corporate Finance Intern. Then you don't have a period for the third bullet. Then we have periods for every following bullet
Try to use action verbs when describing your role, spoke to a couple people at banks and they all recommend that. Basically, using words that show what kind of impact you made. You can bucket skills and certification and use that extra space elsewhere. Try to limit each bullet to one line, it makes the formatting look good and concise. For your club, try to say managed a club of X students, numbers are super imp in a resume
good luck :)
I wouldn't say limit bullets to one line, I've heard two lines max is the rule of thumb. But action verbs are a must.
Everything that Snowshield said, and try your best to cut down on the white space. Don't have lines with one word (very last bullet on work experience) or super short lines (Minor: Economics) and if possible I would cut it down to one line per bullet. Some weird spacing going on as well, just delete the space underneath your GPA.
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