Good evening everyone,
I hope you are all safe and healthy, I have been updating my resume a lot during this month of quarantine and fortunately managed to add some experience.
I have always received good feedback here, and I wanted to ask you more expert monkeys your advice on what I should change or delete. I am targeting IB and AM roles for summer internship 2021 in London.
Please be brutal but helpful!
Have a nice evening
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Overall this looks good (initially I thought it wasn’t anonymous and my comment wasn’t editing)
It is anonymous, John H. Burbank is a famous HF manager, not my name of course... maybe I should've put Harry Potter
Damn right it’s anonymized. How’s Bocconi btw?
Yes that’s my bad, I realized that shortly after. I edited my comment but WSO’s comment system is terrible and I guess it isn’t updating haha
maybe align section titles to the left
will do, thanks
This is good. You've hit all the right spots for a one-page CV. I can see one or two alignment issues but I don't know how much alignment bothers the typical recruiter these days.
Thanks! Which are the alignment issues in particular?
By the way, I will add an internship this summer, and so I should definitely delete some parts to fit everything in, which lines do you think are worth deleting?
For most recent internship, put "virtual" in parentheses next to job title, in bold.
So you can put location as London, England, and it doesn't ruin the formatting
Thanks, it won't hurt since everything in spring will be virtual or cancelled
If you say you're experienced in MS Excel be prepared to prove it in an interview. Tbh looks good to me for the rest
Ok thanks, I will prepare for it
A lot of your bullet points focus on responsibilities. If you want to stand out, make every single point focus on accomplishments (i.e. "organizing conferences, setting deadlines, and implementing ..." --> something like "Organized 12 monthly conferences with over 500 attendees each; gave keynote speech on risk and the importance of diversification".
The second bullet point under the stock pitch program is all over the place. You have like 5 different ideas, which makes it sloppy. If you focus on impact vs responsibilities, you can easily break this into 2 bullet points and have it look clean + impressive.
Take out the "relevant modules" at the top. If you're majoring in finance and economics, then you're expected to go through macroeconomics and financial calculus classes. The "relevant classes" bullet point should only be on someone's résumé if they are majoring in something completely unrelated, like zoology or latin.
If you're applying to junior year roles then I would take out the high school grade too. It's no longer relevant. The one exception for high school grades is if you took a widely recognized test and scored extremely high (my school says to put on the ACT or SAT if you scored high enough). Another great example is the GMAT. I don't know what non-US tests are big enough for this though, to be honest, so you'll have to use your discretion. It just needs to be something that's seen as a common benchmark.
Thanks a lot, really helpful!
Unfortunately the issue I have is with space, I will do an internship this summer and I will have to delete some parts, so I'm not sure whether I can add bulletpoints
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