Target School Resume Help?

Hey guys! I'm a rising senior at a pretty good target school... I'm just now considering pursuing something at a MM (or BB) bank, preferably in equities or S&T...any resume advice would be appreciated!

Some background:

I originally thought I'd just go the route of in-house finance for a F500 company, but after doing it for a few summers I'm looking for something a little more exciting and fast-paced...this type of work really isn't my scene. I've spoken to friends and alumni of my school who are doing IB or S&T and they love what they're doing.

I don't have a lot of direct finance experience, but hopefully going to a target school will be in my favor (loads of BB and MM banks recruit from there). My major GPA is 3.6, while my cumulative is 3.4 I was a science major my freshman year, so the lower GPA can be explained in an interview if asked. I guess my GPA is probably one of my biggest issues... but as a senior there's not too much I can do about that right now

Any helpful advice would be appreciated. I've had it reviewed before at my school's career office, but I just made some changes to include this summer internship I'm doing now.

Side note - I'm going back and forth on doing a one year Master's of Science in Finance Program to hopefully have a better shot at raising my GPA and doing another round of bank recruiting...but it seems like the MSF programs aren't that popular or well known, so I'm not totally set on doing that.

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Thanks!! I had leadership on top before I had my internship experience, but now that I do it makes sense to put work experience first.

 

Notre Dame is my guess.

Personally I don't like the line that's at the bottom, but that's just a structural thing. Also, I always like to keep the tenses consistent, even if it means using past tense in something that's ongoing (referring to your student manager role). And I find that you could expand more on your financial analyst role. You can always move the stuff under your name to one line and that should open up some extra space (it looks a bit odd to have all the free space in between name and education, and then the cramped text and lines at the bottom)

 

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