A friend of mine is applying for positions in finance now. She is a sophomore at an Ivy and trying to get experience in finance. She is targeting mostly office assistant positions.
She showed me a resume template that is really cool and edgy. It's a non-traditional but very clean template.
Any advice if anyone was in a similar position and had success submitting a non-traditional resume for finance jobs?
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Lol way to post your friend's personal information. On the upside, she's probably not gonna have any problem finding an office assistant job.
If she's applying for a SA position, I would NOT suggest using something edgy and advice sticking to the standard format. However, if she is going for an office assistant position it may catch someone's eye and prove to be a positive aspect.
I would air on the side of caution and remind your friend that banking is a conservative field. People going through resumes want to be able to find the relevant information fast, particularly at BB and MM banks. It may be more acceptable at Boutiques, but that's just a guess.
If that's her resume, she shouldn't have any issues finding an office assistant job, but I would honestly suggest leveraging the university's network and try to get a shadowing/externship at a boutique bank/hf/pe. I think that will be much more effective/educational than an office assistant job.
Best of luck!
This resume looks like a restaurant menu
haha great call
Which is probably appropriate for someone who will be asking "Would you like the soup or salad with that?"
It should say - "starters" "entrees" "dessert" etc. would be hilarious.
She's wasting a ton of space with her name that huge and that far down on the page. That being said, if she's a sophomore, she may not have much more to fill said space
I actually want this template. I think it would look so much better when I apply to tech sales jobs.
joking or serious?
Andy, you need to keep on pumping out new templates in order to maintain viewership. You know that. Just take this one.
When I'm processing 150+ resumes, I want to be efficient. I want the key information to be roughly on the same place on each page.
If you're going edgy, non-standard template, you're slowing down my process and making me think more than I should have to.
If your resume content (ie your GPA, your experience, your interests) is hit-it-out-of-the-park fantastic, you may be able to get away with it. But if the content is that great, it will be just as great in standard template.
Chances are, it's not that great. So all you've done with your edgy template is annoyed me. Maybe only a little bit. But I'm looking for reasons to whittle 150 resumes down to 4 or 5. An edgy template pushes me closer to putting it onto the "no pile".
for any sort of finance position, creative templates aren't a good idea. If she was in PR or advertising, the more creative the better.
She did sales at Tory Burch and you're asking if she could be an office assistant? Don't even need a resume, might as well ask if a SEAL's resume looks good for being a mall cop.
Actually a pretty good format. However, she should attach her picture to complete the resume. Hard to really opine otherwise.
....and, if I send you a picture of my wiener and my phone number, can you forward it along to her?
is she hot?
Yes.
proof?
8.8/10
General question for you guys: on what sort of a scale do you asses your excel-skills? Since there is no evidence on the level of her excel-skills in her resume in this case (i.e. she could know how to basic forumlas, but no VBA)
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Pro tip #1 - Asking a forum generally made up of finance dudes won't really get you the answer you want. Chances are, they just assume (or hope) she is hot.
Pro tip #2 - Stick to the traditional route.
shes a babe for sure, dont use this template
Unless this resume secretly yours, which i have a feeling it may be, you probably should have left the name off. It also shouldn't be in font size 64 and taking up roughly half the page. Also, not sure if you're looking for actual critique, but the date on that second internship is a little wonky or you/she is from the future (which should go under special skills). As mentioned by many of the posters above, probably a dope format for something outside of finance (which if you're going for office asst. you're probably ok).
She told me to leave the name. It's not my resume obviously lmao... I am just trying to help a friend out
Sounds like someone wants attention but she's certainly got me standing at attention.
Fair enough, but you know the kind of creepy bros that dominate this site (myself included), haha. Good on you for helping a friend out. Her LinkedIn might crash from all the traffic.
The reason employers/recruiters like similarly formatted resumes isn't because they're boring old people, it's because they're easier to read that way. Ingenuity is great, but knowing when and when not to be creative is just as important. Resume format isn't where you get creative. What this resume says to me is "this person is probably going to start writing e-mails in Haiku to 'stand out'".
Also, nice try directing the reader's attention away from the massive white spaces. The name is so incredibly big I actually forgot to look at it or care to remember it.
God I love linkedin.
99% sure that chick is OP
I am a dude
99.5% sure your first 10 posts were about being a girl.
I think op could just be an excellent troll due to how mind-numbingly obvious some of his/her threads are.
I wouldn't call this edgy, I would call it poorly formatted. Like someone above said, it looks like a restaurant menu. A resume is supposed to draw your eyes to the key selling points, rather than putting the name in 10000 pt font and obscuring everything else.
When you finally figure out where to begin reading, the only things that stand out as "edgy" are: 1. She apparently has 2 bachelor's degrees, one of which was completed in one year? 2. The leadership positions are from 5-6 years before entering college. Putting high school accomplishments is often pushing the envelope, but now we're listing middle school activities? 3. This is a Columbia student and she's trying to get a office assistant position?
.......I get it now. Congrats, you've successfully trolled me.
this post is obviously this girl's attempt at finding a sugar daddy
That has been my position since day one.
DickFuld ?
Sugar daddy on wso? Lol
I don't see anything about being able to refill a printer...
Oh for heaven's sake, just put it in a traditional format.
Here's what I think reading this resume: Why does a ballet student want to work in finance? To begin with, she is probably used to exercising 4 hours a day and will certainly feel the difference between exercising and sitting down all day.
Also, seeing that she has done ballet and gone through the process of taking the time to put together a creative resume, it strikes me that perhaps a more creative field in general would be better suited to her. I'm not saying she can't work in finance, I am saying that maybe she might enjoy herself more if she worked in a different kind of finance (film, non-profit fundraising, tech). The most creative one gets in finance is choosing which blue you're going to have as text and moving around little text bubbles on a powerpoint presentation.
Office assistant jobs for pretty girls are a dime a dozen, she will have no problem ever, during most of her life, getting an office assistant job in finance. Maybe she should try for something more challenging to get. Such as an internship.
Is this question related to format only? The person already has a job as a junior credit trader in SMBC
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