CV and cover letter review for spring week

Hi WSO community,

Would anyone be so kind to take a look and critique my CV and cover letter as I am applying to spring weeks. I really appreciate your time and will make a conscious effort to respond and implement your comments. Any feedback on any part of the CV and/or cover letter is much appreciated. 

Many thanks

Question: I'm not sure how to detail specific stock recommendations regarding the equity research experience and stock pitch competition. Is it even appropriate? If yes, how would I go about describing the valuation/pitch?

Miscellaneous:

Cover Letter for both Investment Banking and Global Markets spring week. This is for Goldman which has a 300 word restriction so I abandoned some conventions for this application only.

Incoming first year in UK borderline semi-target school. Had 1 year of uni experience prior explaining the president of business club.


 CV

Cover Letter uploaded as a document and only able to be viewed on browser :(

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re cover letter: fix general grammar/spelling errors. There's a hyphenated sequence there that shouldn't be there.  Identify what skill you can demonstrate but don't explicitly say that it's relevant to the roles since that gives the impression that you think you know the job well.  Even if you do, they don' t think you do. Also, general rule of thumb for GS: Apply to both divisions but focus on one in the cover letter. HR has been vocal about this at events and to spring attendees so play the game. Pick which one you want more and focus on that one. 

re CV: had a cursory look but USD is followed by Yen sign on merchandise trading company. remove the chinese investing stuff from interests, its there to spark up a conversation and attempt to make you look not like a complete finance nerd so replace it with something memorable. CV is good in terms of content relative to competition but just be aware that a lot of people with actual relevant work ex get nothing in favour of candidates who did random work experience in like a restaurant or something.  Spring recruiting is 70% random with a good amount of that figure being formed from your university name and if you fit diversity aims. The last 30% is having a good CV and cover letter.

 

Hey, thanks for taking the time to go over my cover letter. It makes sense to not explicitly say how my skills are relevant since I really have no inkling but just a very vague concept of what the role issei's like.  Also very helpful to know that I should focus on one division. I could only gloss over the key points as I tried to talk about both divisions. Your advice would free up some word count which would allow me produce a more focused letter. Also will make changes to my interest. Again thanks for your time and helpful advice! Very helpful.

 

Ask around family, friends, and exhaust any kind of connection. For me, I just kept looking for experiences everywhere and anywhere. Although its best to get finance experience, IMO any work is better than no work at all. And then we can try to make sense out of how they are relevant to the role you're applying to. Keep looking and be initiative and something will come up. Best of luck!

 

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