Hey Everyone,
State school kid, switched from CIS to finance 2 years ago, worked at a MM Asset Management shop and currently doing a finance analyst stint at a not-too-famous-but-still-well-known consulting firm.
1 year left for college, applying in NY, already well-networked in China and HK so may wind up there as well.
I know you're all gonna say to put in my cumulative GPA. It's not nearly as good as 4.0 so I won't (think 3-3.5 area).
Please ask any questions you may have and post any brutal comments you may want to get out of your system. Thanks for the help!
http://www.razume.com/documents/21130
EDIT: Just to clarify, I am not Asian; interest in the culture/cuisine has led to some career opps there.
Shit, further EDIT: I'm applying for analyst IBD spots in NYC and HK. Will also do anything else I land in PE/HF/AM from connections or pure luck.
Your GPA is totally misleading. If I was going over your resume I would think "hmm his GPA might suck really bad if he only listed ONE years worth".
Even if its a 3.0, it's better to list it then have a reader assume its a 2.7
Nothing screams banking to me in this resume, so I do not think your going to get any interviews. Your resume needs A LOT of changes, one you have way too many jobs listed, and way too many bullet points.. AND PLEASE get your font size up to 10.5 or 11, we bankers have no time to read your resume, so make it big. Write only about the most important things.
Thank you for actually reading what I wrote.
Do you mind elaborating further on what I should change? From the sound of your post it sounds as if I'm going to shorten my jobs to my SA positions and work at the AM company, but what else should I do?
Thanks again for the help.
Definitely put your GPA on your resume. If it's not on there I would assume your GPA was in the
On page two, I think you forget to black out your name.
Fucking razume. Thanks michael!
You aren't going to get a banking job with an international bank in PRC/HK with one year of Mandarin and no IBD internship experience.
One year of Mandarin at a US college is almost functionally useless. It takes 4 year of study in the US, or 2-3 years +3-6 months intensive immersion in a Chinese language program in China to have even the most basic level of functional proficiency.
If your connections have guanxi oozing out of every orifice you might be able to land a research role at a big firm or get a front-office interview at a local firm/boutique. If you're not dead-set on finance, there are other opportunities at F500 companies. You can make a ton of money teaching English or doing SAT tutoring but I wouldn't recommend it from a career development perspective.
Congratulations on being familiar with/knowing a difficult language, but I'm looking for resume critique as opposed to career guidance. Thanks!
You're going to want a copy of your resume in Chinese if you're serious about it.
Ditch the personal trading section at the bottom. If you don't have a specific strategy or returns to talk about, no one will give a shit that you maximized profits on your intraday trades. Who wouldn't try to maximize their profits?
A lot of your bullet points are way too long and way too chatty. Try to focus more on results than processes.
That you disbursed compensation to your start up's employees is not worthy of mention on your resume. Get rid of the Chinese language exchange participant entry.
Add a section called Interests and include daytrading, Chinese culture/language/cuisine/whatever, English boxing, other things you can think of.
Coursework section is weak. List banking-related courses or get rid of it... it's a bare minimum expectation that you studied macro theory as an econ major...
Get rid of the bullet under personal portfolio trader and increase font size a bit. i think it looks decent (your work experience at least), but you need to fix your gpa as noted above. i think you will get auto-dinged for that.
Senior GPA -- WTF?? Really??? Who in the hell gave you that idea?
You can get away with major GPA
What is the actual overall? YOU WILL GET ASKED
You can have a 4.0 senior year but a 1.0 overall. Like others said, list the overall.
How do you have a 4.0 senior gpa when you haven't even started your senior year? It says your expected graduation date is 2012.
Bottom line, your resume needs major re-wording Pay someone or visit your school department to review it None of us are helping because none of us have 30 minutes to edit your resume!
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