College student applying for Financial Advisor.
As the title says. What do you guys think? Be as brutally honest as possible.
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Cover Letter: - Do some research and actually address your cover letter to a PERSON. A cover letter will never help you get a job, but it sure as hell as all the potential to ding you. - When relating to past experience you want to be specific. Your current description gives me no idea what you even did to gain those skills. Focus on problem -> action -> result type of examples and quantify as much as possible. - If you want to mention your coursework be specific. For all I know you could have taken all marketing courses which have nothing to do with finance. - End with either "Regards" or "Sincerely" or "Best Regards" comma enter enter then your full name. Hyphen screams casual/amateur.
Resume: - You asked for honesty so here goes. Your resume is a disaster. Search up resume templates on this forum and base it off of that. - You need to align everything properly and use specific examples of your achievements. Your points should be about what you did, not what your job responsibilities were. - Too much white space, use 1" margins, way too much for top margin at the moment.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. All that being said, it is my experience that most financial advisors are salespeople peddling shitty mutual funds with godawful management fees that can't even beat an index fund...
Your resume has too much white space and from a glance, it looks like you haven't done anything substantial in your life. Try to find ways to fill it up, use the WSO template as example. I would like to see your GPA, (arn't there concentrations under the Business Administration major?), more bullet points on your volunteering experience, the current bullet point you have is probably true, but comes off as pure BS and makes me think that maybe you did nothing and have nothing to write.
Your cover letter is plain vanilla and is all tell and no show. In fact it does show that you're a bland person. Rather than saying that you're a team player, highly confident, etc give examples of times when you have shown those characteristics and let the reader decide for him/herself that you are in fact a great team player and highly confident.
Have you joined any finance/investment clubs in school? Have you taken any relevant courses in finance? Your resume has too much white space, you need to either put more relevant information on there or get more experience before applying.
Just something nitpicky I noticed out the corner of my eye: no one uses the "Distributive Education Clubs of America" moniker anymore. It became deprecated in the 90s.
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