Transitioning Vet

Hello all,

I have been a long time lurker at WSO, and am thankful for the community. I am a transitioning vet looking for an analyst position in NYC. In my current job I fly helicopters for the Army, and have gained some risk analysis experience in Afghanistan.

I just graduated from a non-target B-school and have zero finance experience. Despite this I am strong in Excel, mostly because I have been programming since high school. I am strong in VBA, SQL, and am a certified advanced programmer in SAS (Statistical Analysis Software). Hopefully my technical skills will help me in my job search.

Thus far I have been targeting banks participating in Vet recruitment. I appreciate any insight from those who may have been down the same road. I am attaching my resume, critiques are welcome!

Thank you again for letting me be a part of your community.

-ChinookDriver

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Best Response

Vet's on Wall Street should have some opportunities. I'm assuming since you are military you did the OSU online program for your MBA. Unfortunately that puts you in a difficult position because post MBA you typically recruit into banking as an Associate but you had no recruiting being an online MBA program. You are also well out of cycle for banking recruiting, about 9 months late.

I'm not going to go into details about your resume, hopefully others will because I think there are lots of areas that can be improved, but I will give you one overall thing to work on. When developing your performance reports they should have talked to you about the CAR model - Context, Action Result. That is how your bullets should read. Right now your resume talks a lot about job functions but says almost nothing about your accomplishment. I would suggest compressing everything you have into a short 2-line summary for each job function and then have bullets that actually show what you did.

 

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