WSO is filled with resume examples to help you land an entry level position in Investment Banking. However, I'm struggling with writing my resume now that I'm in the industry.
I have three questions:
1.) What are things to include on my resume?
2.) What are thing to avoid including?
3.) Best way to Organize the resume? (by projects I've been staffed on, by job responsibilities etc.)
If you could provide examples that would also be greatly appreciated.
Little about myself:
I'm currently a Senior Analyst but because our firm is small I have a lot of responsibilities that go beyond the normal analyst bandwidth (including client facing roles, internal admin, interviewing, and managerial).
Thank you in advance for your help, truly appreciate it.
Look for the WSO private equity resume template, which is a good starting point for how it should look after a few years in banking.
Main differences from pre-work resume is move work experience to the top and education to the bottom. Will probably need to remove most extracurriculars from school - maybe keep one important one with your education. Work experience should take up the bulk of it, with a couple bullets on a few deals that you've worked on.
Main thing to avoid including would be any non-public information. So be careful with names and description/figures that someone smart could use to deduce what company you're talking about (so be liberal with rounding off numbers and describing businesses).
You really should consider using the WSO Resume Review service. I used the service when I was lateraling from a "no-name" boutique and thought it was completely worth it. I am now on the WSO Resume Review team, and we regularly get experienced candidates who want their resumes reviewed.
A good starting point would be the regular investment banking resume template on WSO, except now you should move education below work experience. For your work experience, you should list your position with location and time period as you always would, and below it, list something similar to the following:
Select transaction experience:
Sale of Monsanto Company to Bayer AG (announced May 18, 2016) * Unique responsibility #1 (e.g. built complex, cross-border M&A tax implication model) * Unique responsibility #2 (e.g. worked directly with external counsel and DOJ to evaluate possible antitrust concerns) * Unique responsibility #3 (e.g. worked with management to develop a complex model that looked at the affects of U.S. EPA regulation on the levels of pesticides and herbicides purchased across the U.S. market)
Project Hawk - $100M senior secured debt raise for equipment leasing lender * Unique responsibility #1 (e.g. built detailed static loan pool analysis) * Unique responsibility #2 (e.g. worked directly with senior management to develop a borrowing base analysis) * Unique responsibility #3 (e.g. worked directly with senior private placement bankers to develop a detailed lender list)
Note: I didn't work at BMO, nor did I work on any of two transactions, so it is entirely possible that my unique responsibility examples make no sense for each transaction (e.g. maybe no one at Monsanto ran an M&A tax implication model), but you should still be able to get the point.
this may be helpful if you haven't seen it already https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/wso-private-equity-resume-templa…
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