Undergrad Student - Suggestions Welcome

I should note that my descriptions for the committees are relatively vague and don't mention results - that's because all I've had so far is an introduction, and real work starts in a month. I was trying to make the best of it.

"advisor to president of college on long term financial planning"

and you are a college sophomore majoring in physics-math??

Consider moving your involvement in the College Investment group up into "Experience", particularly if you have some good statistics around the amount of money managed and any positive returns you acheived.

Hey Guys,

Just wondering, but what do you think of MnE's formatting? I think it looks cleaner with all the dates on the left, but was wondering what you all thought.

Thanks

IBanker: thanks for your first impression.

In response to the format, it's true to that it may take up some additional space, but putting it to the right has its limits as well, since full lines will touch the date and make it look messy. All in all, I feel this format looks cleaner, but when you're running out of space (like I am), I'd probably change it. The critical question being whether I'm running out of space for a good reason.. don't want to make it a laundry list.

As for always putting in the months, that makes sense, although I've seen many (qualified) people not do it - are there times when this is OK?

Valedictorian is just the title, the activity being International Baccalaureate. Is this confusing? I wanted to draw attention to the titles (except for the last one, but I have to be consistent)

The last bullet fails, I know, I couldn't come up with a better wording. I didn't want to say I caused the firm's success, rather than the project/results.

I'm supposed to send this to an alumnus at a BB tomorrow, caught me kind of off-guard, hence the need for some quick tips.

At the end of the day it is about what you are comfortable with. if you are comfortable with your resume, and there aren't any glaring errors, then go with it. While I agree that the dates can be impacted by a long title, I always put the dates on the same line as the company, and there aren't many company names that are long enough to reach across. I think you would get a lot out of a different format and it wouldn't be hard for you to do. Again, if you like your format and you are comfortable with it, then go with it - it's not a bad format by any means, so it is a matter preference. I would, however, rephrase that last sentence, increase the font size of the section titles, and for the Vale line, I would take out Vale and just put whatever you were - student, participant, etc - as ranked number 1 means the same thing anyone...so you can change ranked #1 to Vale, or just leave ranked #1. Good luck.

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Oh and to your date question, I like to see the months in there, especially when we are talking months, and not full years or service (sorry, I forgot to answer that one before).

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Months on the left just looks awkward. You're wasting too much space.