Very Non-target, resume help please!! and my background
Hello all!
I have searched around this site a few times but never really thought about posting. I went to a very non-target school (Ole Miss--- University of Mississippi for those who don't know)
I was a RE undergrad major with a terrible GPA (2.81). I really was not interested in finance and had no idea what i wanted to do with my life. I love boats and the water so i interned for a yacht brokerage firm for two summers. Anyway, during my upper level courses we started talking about CMBS and CDOs and all that (it was fall of 08.. so everything was hitting the fan) and i began to realize how interested I was in finance. not a great reason, i know, but I GOT IT.
Well, April came around and I was about to graduate and knew that I needed a "redo" so I took the gmat a week later and was accepted in to Ole Miss's MBA program with a full scholarship (it made financial sense- i had no experience and i owned a condo there). I made a 580 but never studied or anything, it was enough to get me in. From there I was elected class President, started a first ever fundraiser to augment our then near 0 endowment fund for MBA scholarships (ended up raising 12K or enough for 3 kids to go for free) and was the VP of the finance group (we participated in the CFA global investment research challenge where we did a sell-side valuation for International Paper). I did the whole thing myself but created some serious DCF models (see resume items)
I graduated with a 3.41 and was given the MBA Leadership Award and was asked to speak at graduation for our business school, which i did, and was initiated into Beta Gamma Sigma honors society for being in the top 20% of our class.
Anyway, I'm still not quite sure what I want to do, either Investment banking (my father has been an M&A laywer for 30 years and has taught me a lot) or Asset Management. I would love to be a trader but I probably don't have the quant/math ability. I am in Atlanta now and want to find something there. I have been banging on SunTrust Robinson Humphrey's door for over a year without hardly a response. I don't want to go to NYC for multiple reasons, but would accept an internship there for a period of time if possible.
Sorry for being so long winded and telling my life story, but I have applied to hundreds of jobs online with zero feedback. I have gotten a few good interviews (Morgan Keegan I-banking, genesis capital, Raymond James FI strategy) but nothing has hit and I feel i need a new resume and some help. We have ZERO banking recruiting at our school besides Morgan Keegan, and although my father has many connections, I can't contend with the guys who graduated from Virginia, etc.
Thanks everyone!! This is my old resume:
http://www.razume.com/documents/15526
I will post a new one soon (after looking at a lot of them on here, I need to focus on different things- So expect an update soon)
THANK YOU!!
Here is the new one. http://www.razume.com/documents/15527
-I came up with as much for the CFA challenge as possible (please review my bullets) -Deleted the graduate assistantship as I hardly did anything at ALL (although it did show that not only did i do all the other stuff during mba, but i also had a 20/hr/wk job) -Deleted one of the mundane bullet points from the sales assistant position -rearranged some of the headlines and relevant coursework
I don't see anything in the way of quantifiable results for any of your bullet points. For each line, ask yourself if you've answered the rhetorical "so what?" questions. If possible, dig up old emails, make calls to old bosses, whatever you have to in order to get the numbers.
For example, you talk about raising funds for the MBA scholarship but never mention how much you raised. This makes me wonder if you only raised $100 from your grandma or if you raised $100M from successful alumni.
Another example is that I don't care if you "analyzed data and created Excel graphs and spreadsheets". I want to know what you did with this data. What decisions were made possible by this analysis? What was the result of those decisions?
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