Resume review for London IBD/MBB applications (urgent help please)

Hi all,

Whilst being a member of WSO for a substantial amount of time, I have not used the site for a while whilst sitting my finals at the University of Oxford. I am currently applying to London MBB and IBD shops. I wondered if anyone would be willing to have a brief look at my CV. It would be extremely helpful (as an outsider) to gauge how it looks to someone prior to me sending off my applications this week to some speculative and off-cycle roles.

Thank you ever so much.

Best wishes,
Piers.

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So I'll start this review off by noting that it looks solid. For a student, you seem pretty well accomplished and it comes across in my first read through. The following items are merely nitpicky recommendations, but having said that, these are merely recommendations (i.e. food for thought).

  1. Education - I'd get rid of the "Graduated" thing under Edinburgh. It's a given that you graduated already as you're doing your Masters right now. On that point, my preference for formatting is August 2016 (Exp.) or August 2016 (expected). Purely stylistic on the latter point.

  2. Experience a) At the World Bank, did your presentations result in any specific action being taken? If so, I'd include it. Though it is understandable if you weren't around to see it as you were only there for a semester.

b) For PwC and GS, I'd employ the Oxford comma, though I can't help but see some irony that I'm saying that to someone currently attending Oxford. Purely stylistic, nobody really cares.

c) For GS, third bullet point, I'd personally word it differently. Something like: Built Excel valuation model to restructure the gas firm's 3m Q3 FY12 carbon investment strategy [contributing to] or [resulting in] or [you get the idea] 14% return. Also, is gas firm the client? As it is currently worded, it's not clear if gas firm is GS or the client. I'm sure you'd be able to explain in a live interview, but why leave anything to chance right?

  1. You gave a TED talk? Geez, way to make me feel under accomplished. No changes recommended here, just commentary.

All in all, not much to change in my opinion. The only thing I'd really care about is clarifying the third bullet point for GS, but other than that, the rest of this isn't all that substantive.

Cheers mate and best of luck!

 

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