SA Resume... improvements & inputs would be great!

McGill is the only top school that has exchange to Duaphine....Honestly, although people group McGill together with Ivey and Queen's, I think thre is a substantial difference between mcgill and the latter two. Btw how hard is it to get into HIM?

wouldn't know, haven't applied but have friends who got in without knowing too much about the industry.

Made a few changes (edited OP). Any input would be great

I think it would be fine to leave the Co-Founder position. It will be something interesting to talk about in the interview. Along with saying that, do you have MS office skills? While PHP/MySQL are great, the majority of your time will be spent in an excel spreadsheet, especially as a SA. Not only listing this, but showing some sort of projects you worked on, would be extremely helpful.

Couple of things...great gpa btw.

1. Change the first title to Summer Analyst, Equity Research. (or whatever the general title is)
2. Change the capitalization to Selected project experience, Creation of risk assessment file, Statistical analysis

3. Make two bullet points under Creation of risk,

   -Created centralized database calculating participant risk based on multiple inputs -Results led to increased efficiency within the department

My resume was very similar to yours with these three changes. All the bankers and PE guys that have looked over my resume have suggested these changes.

Good luck!

Yes well I do pretty well in excel word pp but was told that "good" MS Office skills are nothing compared to what bankers do. I also remember reading that including this info on a resume wasn't good practice but I'll take your word over some random article I read a while back.

I've modeled a couple of DCFs and M&A deals on my own to better understand the process and also created an Excel "program" to monitor fictive investment portfolios (that updates quotes every minute, etc.). Do you believe I should put something relating to this on my resume?

Thanks

Thanks for the tips porsche959! Very appreciated.

and by the way porsche959, the reason for the Summer Intern, Market Analyst label is that I was working more of a compliance role, so I wanted to spin it as "non-compliance" as possible. So Summer Analyst, Equity Research would kind of be stretching it. Do you think Summer Analyst, Derivatives Market would sound/look better?

Ohh I see. I think Summer Analyst, Derivatives Market would work fine then.

Also, I would keep off winter 2013, Im not sure if bankers like kids that are graduating early/late, but better to just have a normal year on your resume regardless of what you're doing.

Are you networking at all? If you are from a top 3 school you should have a great network of alumni that would be willing to help you out. Talking to bankers should be your #1 priority right now seeing as how your gpa and experience should be good enough to show an interest in finance.

I'm actually graduating on time... April/Mai 2013... is there a better way to state this than by saying Winter 2013 semester?

And as for networking I've been mostly making use of linkedin but I find the process to be very slow and since the "answer rate" isn't dramatically high I haven't had many responses. I would love to have access to some sort of alumni e-mail list but can't seem to find anyting like it on my school's website.

Thank you

Updated it again to accomodate for suggested changes.

Any more input?

thanks