Entry Level SA London & EMEA - Certified Users & SA's please
This is the second edition. Made with edits based on SECFinance's constructive criticism.
I'm looking at S&T in London and Dubai. Entry level and Off-cycle internships (Spring & Rolling Apps). Renovating my network with a new strategy - Last one got me 80+ interviews with BB, MC, F500 and boutiques in the US but was too broad a search and I wasn't focused/persistent/prepared enough.
GPA and Standardized Tests are not good enough (Below 3.0 and 78% in GMAT and SAT) - No honors in college. I'd appreciate more constructive feedback; it's already starting to look much stronger and elegant than previous versions.
HS: A good 10 - 15% of alums around my area work in IB, S&T and HF. Well known among senior bankers and businessmen as they send their kids to one of the 30 branches in the middle east.
It's nice that you're being so upfront about your GPA and such on your resume, but honestly I think putting what you have will hurt you even more than not putting anything.
Take degree out of "Bachelor of Science degree"
Do you have a higher major GPA? A sophomore-senior year GPA? Anything that can get that 2.7 off the resume?
Take the SAT off, it's nowhere near high enough to be on there.
Can't speak to the GMAT score, but I imagine most would probably say the same thing I said about the SAT score for it.
Any honors in college?
Take your HS GPA off and the honors. If you honestly think your HS is going to get you a foot in the door, leave it on there but I don't think it will considering I couldn't name a high school in the EMEA region if you had a briefcase with a million dollars in it in front of me.
Your Inc bullet points need much more development.
Futures Trading bullets:
That's great that you traded on a $10,000 account.... But how well did you do? I could manage on a $10 million account but if I have a negative ROI I'm not exactly impressive am I?
What kind of technical analysis? These need more development. This is a better position for what you're trying to do than your social media crap above.
Find a better way to reword your third PWM bullet. These also need to be developed. All your resume has shown me so far is that you know how to turn a computer on and may or may not have showed up to class every day in college.
Can you put anything else for your Audit stuff? I know it's not great for anything you're trying to do but these bullets need to be better too.
Consulting Club sounds cool. How did you do in these competitions? Any quantifiable results that would make you sound good?
Reword your second bullet - increased club membership by X%, employment rate by Y%, and revenues Z%.
Lowercase the f in "Fund"
Do you have a specific example of a stock you rec'd and how it has performed since then? Anything that would make you look good?
Take "Team member" out from Econ. Assoc.
How did you do at the Fed Challenges? What exactly were your recs?
Second bullet needs to be reworded. "hypothesized a potential energy model"? Of course it was potential, you hypothesized it. Why did you hypothesize it? What was the aim of the project? If you can put a specific city instead of "mid-size US city" that would be better too
I really don't care that you were on the 1929 Yankees version of your school's IM football league.
Any technical skills/interests?
You have a decent starting point but you need a ton of work. Also trash your format and use the M&I template. Good luck. Feel free to repost when you've worked on it some more and I'll give you some more feedback.
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SEC you're a pro. I need to update my resume too. I will be annoying you at some point.
Much better than the first version!
Is your Major GPA above 3.0? Do you have anything you can put on your education section? It looks really weird with just relevant coursework (and honestly how relevant can it be if you don't have a 3.0 in it?).
Good Startup bullets.
put "to improve aggressive trading strategy" instead of what you have, looks like you just overlooked it.
"through cold calling efforts"
Who were the accountants you audited with? Associates, senior associates, managers, etc. Be specific.
Looks like your spacing on your third Big 4 bullet is off by one.
On your energy bullet, I'd change the end to "student-run $120,000 fund"
Did the club buy XYZ on your rec? Include that, otherwise the bullet sounds weird.
I'd say "team advanced to semi-finals"
Much better effort this time. Good improvement.
Muchos gracias. I cold called a few regional boutiques and passed on my resume. Got a couple calls back and some serious respect from one HR lady. I owe you one.
Honestly for education I have the 2.7 / 4.0 ; SAT 1890 / 2400 or 1300 / 1600 and GMAT 630 / 800. I'll make the other tweaks though.
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