Trading Resume
Hi,
I'm a masters student interested in trading. My background is as a mechanical engineer, but in graduate school I've really focused on finance. I've applied to most of the prop shops in Chicago and some big banks / hedge funds, but I've only had first rounds at Citadel and Belvedere, and Belvedere was the only one that turned into a final round. I think my resume is geared towards quantitative trading, but I don't know how others see it or if I'm missing some special skill or something like that. Any help or comments would really be appreciated
Did you have any internships during college? Not to be an ass but I'm shocked this resume got an interview at Citadel. Please kill all of that coursework and replace with any relevant jobs/internships. It's right in the meat of your resume, and takes up too much space.
I had internships, but they weren't in finance, they were mechanical engineering internships so I didn't think they were as relevant as the coursework I had listed.
Advice from someone who's broken into the industry after many resume reviews: way, wayyyy too much space taken up by relevant coursework. List a few courses side by side with bullets in between, don't explain the courses. It makes for interview conversation anyway - remeber, the goal of your resume is to make them interested in you so that they'll want to speak to you more. Too wordy all around. Make things more concise, they simply don't have time to examine it in detail.
Your resume reeks of you one day hearing that prop traders make huge money and they are looking for engineers. Doing so, it showed you don't have any real knowledge who they look for.
They want smart, quantitatively focused people. period. they could care less that you know corporate finance.
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