I have experience working as an analyst/intern at a boutique.
Although I have a soft offer I plan on going through recruiting come sept/oct because of the lack of deals coming in.
Note: I am shy about posting anything too detailed about my transaction experience because although I've been on a few esop and fairness opinions I don't want to get grilled on them come time I get interviewed.
Sorry about it being a .doc, for some reason it wasn't uploading the pdf version.
Any advise is greatly appreciated.
Mine as well put it on there considering you literally have every valuation model name dropped on there. No matter what, they are probably going to grill your dick on LBO's because you have it on two line items, so why would it matter to add your other transaction experience?
Resume is pretty solid, cant say much else. Maybe try to throw in major GPA if it is higher than your cumulative
Question, why do you have "Responsibilities" underlined and taking up space..... If I were looking at your resume I would assume those were the responsibilities you had.... There's no need to label it as such.
Don't use present tense
Experienced monkeys: what do you think of listing transaction experience in the format he has laid out? I have had no luck getting interviews using that.
There's almost no point in putting transaction experience on your resume if you're going to be this vague about it. By highlighting your live deal work, you're hoping to spark a conversation about the situation and your responsibilities. What am I supposed to ask you about a bullet point that reads "helped evaluate LBOs for a company in a broad number of industries"? That just sounds like a generic banking bullet point, and it's a stretch to call that "transaction experience".
Several issues with this resume:
1) "Wrote" is spelled incorrectly
2) There's no purpose to putting "Responsibilities" below your job title - obviously those are your responsibilities
3) "• Designed credit limit process was approved by the CFO and implemented by the end of the summer" - strange sentence construction
4) Dean's List should have an apostrophe
5) "8 clients yearly...", "clients" should have an apostrophe
6) "• Wrote detailed research reports on various equities and industries for Managing Partners review" - "Partners" should have an apostrophe
7) Personal preference, but I don't like present tense on a resume, even if it's your current job. Past tense just feels more professional to me (although I know others prefer the opposite)
8) There's a ton of white space on this resume. You've had three solid internships, you go to a semi-target and you're involved in ECs. There's no reason that your resume should be so scarcely populated. Why don't you list more details about the Finance Association or IB Club?
9) "• Raised $3,000 in 2012 which created two new academic based scholarships for current members" - there should be a comma before "which"
Just a note: if you're putting LBOs on your resume, you had better be prepared to walk through an LBO during the interview.
Good points all around. I really appreciate it.
I think I will keep it the LBO modeling off there. Actually, I will probably remove transaction experience all together. Nothing I have worked (small ESOP deals or Solvency Opinions) are anything I think would "spark" a great conversation. I know myself and I like to be confident in interviews and have to bullshit my way through it as little as possible.
With regards to adding more about the IB / Finance Clubs, 2 things:
I have no idea where I would add anything in if I wanted to because all my lines are occupied (before running onto two pages.
The only things we really did in those clubs was sit in on presentations where alumni would speak from different firms. It wasn't all that glamourous.
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