Resume review – Experienced Hire
Hi everyone,
I would greatly appreciate if anyone could review my resume and provide me with some feedback. Feel absolutely free to tear it apart….
A few disclaimers:
- I’m not an English native speaker, so please check my English grammar, spelling, and see if statements make sense;
- In my country, we don’t have GPA or equivalent; neither Major or Minor;
One question:
- Should I keep “investment banking blogs” in Interests, or this may sound BS???
I really appreciate any input!
Thanks in advance for your help.
On the whole I think it's pretty decent in terms of layout etc. I'd personally change the investment banking blogs thing to something a bit more professional sounding or just delete it but it's no big deal.
The one major thing though is the dates and gaps. The fact that you only worked in one place for 2/3 months and then there's a gap of over half a year till your next job raises serious alarm bells. If those dates had been a year later (ie left second place in Aug 08 joined new place march 09) I'd think you'd just got canned due to the market and wouldn't focus on it but since we're talking about the boom times you really need to find some way to address that, either in a covering letter if using one (which I'd suggest you do in order to explain the situation) or even on the cv. Maybe somebody else has a better suggestion.
Oconnor, thanks a lot for your feedback!
I would need a way to propoerly address it in my resume, but the reality is: I moved from my home country to a foreign country and spent some time just settling down (finding a flat, interviewing, finding a job, etc)... it was a huge move, so that's why I took a while to have things in the right place...
But good point though...
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Brown_Bateman, thanks for your feedback.
I know what you mean, but that is the truth! In my country, people work full time and study at uni at the same time... it happens with almost everyone in my country.
So for example, it is common for people to work from 9.00am to 6.00pm and then go to Uni from 6.30pm to 11.30pm... that's what happened with me and my colleagues!
But of course I started as an intern and then left the Bulge bracket as Financial Analyst, that was my last position within the bank. And after undergrad, I did this post graduate qualification in Project Finance while working in Bulge bracket and then the boutique.
Wow, looks like a strong resume.
To Oconnor and Brown_Bateman:
I have included a line saying "Sabbatical: studying for the IELTS exam at abc College" from Oct.2007 - Apr.2008.
This is what happened: I left my country and went to an english speaking country to prepare for the IELTS exam in a college in this country.
Does it look better now?? Or is it weird to have this "Sabbatical" line there??
Thanks again for all your assistance!
Razume: http://www.razume.com/documents/10528
P.S: just to clarify, IELTS is an exam for non-native speakers in order to test their english language ability. It is mainly used for immigration purposes (permanent visas, etc) and to enter Uni overseas.
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Is that the mergers and inquisitions frame? You used it pretty well.
Brown_Bateman, thanks again for the help! Just so I can understand, and as I said I'm not an english native speaker, but why "Sabbatical" is not the right word for this situation? And why we don't put it there???
Also, a conceptual doubt here, don't we just put "important" courses (like uni, postgraduate, MBA, etc) under the Education section?? Wouldn't it look weird to put that under "Education"??
In relation to that passage, I wanted to say that having various operating cases was crucial for sensitivity purposes and to derive a valuation range, since the banks (selling shareholders) accounted for the majority of the firm's revenue - transaction processing / electronic data interchange services (used by the banks in transactions such as cash management, trade finance, etc).
And therefore the 3 shareholders had to guarantee a minimum level of demand (various scenarios), otherwise Bank 1 (shareholder), for example, secure a given volume of transactions but Bank 2 (another shareholder) don't guarantee anything. Then Bank 1 has a commitmment and is "providing" value to the company (since revenue forecasts will be higher - remember the 3 together account for ~60%, so highly sensible), but Bank 2 is also taking advantage of higher valuation and will get cash for their proportional shareholding but committing nothing. Does it help you to assist me in rephrasing that?
Anyone else??? Any additional input??
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