I think you can omit USA, maybe brief description of the awards (i.e. 5% of the top class), you use mm somewhere and million elsewhere, keep it consistent. you use period at the end of some sentences, not for others. remove periods. "rescarchexi"? wtf is that

on another note, i notice that you list out your experience. try to make it more of what you learned out of the experience, not what you did

other than that looks solid

 
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  • don't list awards by year and semester like that, just state the award and if you feel compelled to detail how many times you had it put something like "(3 semesters)" after it

  • don't put "MOORE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS" , if you are studying at the University of South Carolina and you are obtaining your BSBA people can assume you are in the business school.

  • get rid of the stuff on Microsoft office, everyone assumes that if you apply to a position like this you have some basic office skills

  • get rid of the tag "IT SKILLS" - no real suggestions for a replacement but it looks odd

  • basic formatting (random "," and "." to end things) ... you shouldn't end a bullet point with a period and if you choose to do it, you certainly shouldn't end some of them without a period

  • get rid of the explanation after Sigma Series ... if you want to talk Leadership experience then add another section to your resume and talk leadership.

  • something I've got critiqued on was the amount of white space. Either make your font larger or add a leadership section (if you have some experience) or a volunteer section (if you do any of that)

Hope this helps a bit. I'm also a non-target honing my resume and these are tips that I have got after my first draft.

 

FYI guys - the Moore School format requires the "USA" bit and the "Moore School" stuff under education.

That being said, now that you've graduated from USC, you can depart from their format. Take the M&I format and adapt it to your resume. Take all the USA's off.

What was your minor/cognate? I'd list it, you look super generic with a 3.5 Econ major from a non-target. Add "/4.0" to your GPA. Take your AP Scholar thing off, it's not related to college. Change "Awards:" to "Honors:". Were you on a merit scholarship at USC? If so, add it.

Change everywhere you say "over" to "more than".

Take out "from scratch in order"

Be consistent with your number formatting - spell out anything under 10.

Your last M&A bullet seems a little out of place.

Just a comment but you might want to add a space before and after the dashes in your dates.

Be consistent with your periods. You end some bullets with them and don't with others.

Your summary sentence for your law firm experience needs work. You have a fragmented sentence in there.

Third Attorney bullet needs work. Ongoing is one word. Take out "the" before attorneys.

I think you can take out "Cincinnati, Ohio based" in your summary sentence since you have your location on there.

Take out "those states'"

Second bullet doesn't work.

Redo your skills/activities section. Any foreign language skills? Interests? What did you do for your 2010 summer? If you had leadership in Kappa Sig, you need to expand on it because your resume is too bare bones for now.

Make these corrections and go from there. You will still have work to do but it will be an improvement. You need to be using your OH boutique network to try to get in somewhere. Where are you based out of now? I assume Cincy. Go Cocks.

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I appreciate the help, I will upload a revised version later tonight.

Please keep the help coming. Any ideas on other things i could add in there to fill up some of the white space, I have a little bit of leadership experience and a little bit of volunteer experience but not really enough to fill up an entire category. Could i put in school projects, further details of previous jobs, any other ideas?

Thanks

 

Would you mind PM'ing me regarding what firm you are working at in Cincy? If not it's cool, just wondering as I'm a history/econ major at UC.

"There are only two opinions in this world: Mine and the wrong one." -Jeremy Clarkson
 

Thanks, sounds like I'm going to need it. Anyone else have anything that they think I should try and highlight a little more? Ideas of things I could get involved with now that may add something to my resume to make me more appealing?

 

I'm a Senior so I'm not exactly qualified to critique this but ... did you really create complex financial models? If you did great, but I feel like an interviewer might fuck you over with modeling related technicals or shit like that.

Also I'm a Republican too, but with the current political division - if the HR/Interviewer is a Democrat you could be in trouble.

"Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence." - Thomas Sowell
 

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