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My job was more of financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting. I feel my resume looks somehow if I include all these schools. So, I removed exchange program in Switzerland. I would also have removed my previous MBA school, but I participated in an activity with a leadership role Led a team for CFA Institute research challenge that I would like to reflect in my resume, because my work experience has been more focused on Financial reporting and budgeting.

Please, is it a good idea to remove the said school? Am I in a disadvantage position, as almost half of my resume contains the list of schools while having short bullet points under work and leadership experience. If not, what would be an appropriate way to let them know? Sure, you can list it. I got the highest grade in several of my upper level econ classes. Would it be ostentatious to include that under Education or is it best to simply have a Relevant Coursework bullet point?

Is their anyway I could send a resume through to you and get your most honest 30 second thoughts? No unless you are a paying client, because it will not be fair to clients who pay for our services. How would i use the structure you guys provided for a regular sales position? For the Task-Centric structure there was not really an example like the Project structure.

Could you provide an example of how to write a bullet for example: examining daily sales records and preparing a report on accumulated sales. Thank you for your feedback! Hi Nicole, As a student-athelete, where would it be appropriate to list my sport? Thanks so much for your help! Thanks for the quick response. I will only have one internship and a quick 3 day program at a big bank in my experience section. Basically, would it be ok to mention the sport twice on my resume?

Just a quick question. PS I have completed a year-long internship so I do have some work experience but wondering if that would be enough to compensate for the lack of leadership roles at clubs. Emphasize on your work experience esp experience that is related to finance. Leadership roles are important but they are not as important as solid work experience. List your work experience above your student club experience unless your work experience is not significant.

PS My internship was a part of my undergrad degree Sandwich course. Try to spin your experience a bit and think through aspects in the role that allowed you to use your leadership skills. Is it possible for you to create a template of an Australian Resume, or provide some form of example? I know you say to not put on there that you know Microsoft Office ect. What if you are certified in Microsoft Excel or something? There are 3 different certifications that I am aware of, if you have passed these should you put them on your resume?

Thanks for this post and the templates. I have just used it to rewrite my resume. I only have one very weak finance related experience, and all the others are marketing experiences though they are of high-quality. So I thought that may be I should list my personal investment experience on my resume. I have:.

Could you recommend me how and where I can list this experience? Thanks for your time! You can actually list the RE Investment under professional experience. If you had stellar performance, you could also list them under prof experience — again it depends on your resume. Hard to say on comments page. If yes, how and where I can list this experience in my resume? Thank you for your time! I also have a legal research position like you mentioned in the tutorial.

However, I am trying to break into the financial industry with the ultimate goal of landing a summer internship.

As the scholarship chair of my fraternity I have finished a few pretty significant projects. Do you think I should just include the research position and the scholarship chair? Or is it wise to also include a part-time job that is irrelevant to finance? I only worked for Big 4 for internships as audit intern.

I know this is nitpicky, but what about combining the best portions of my SAT scores in order to get the highest number? Will they actual verify this SAT business? I m chinese who is studying at the UK uni.

I decide to apply 6-month placement for banking. However, my HK A Level result is quite bad, and i took a foundation programme to progress to uni. I m just wondering whether i should show my HK AL result?

Thanks for the great template. How should I list it? I was wondering if you know of any good resume templates for Australian applicants? My ACT score of 34 converts to , which is slightly higher — should I put that down along with the above, or instead of it? Should I send them for me, cover letter is average to good, transcript is average to mediocre. Total score is fine 2. Either way 3. I finished my masters in May Should I NOT put my accounting internship experience and leadership experience as vice president of student government on my resume?

What time period is considered old? Should I include these on my resume? Also, those credits at other schools have boosted my overall GPA. Just changing the page size makes the lines not line up with text, etc. Or will I get penalized for not having the jobs in chronologically dated order? Depends on what roles you are applying for. Sometimes it is. It depends. If you want to highlight a particular experience, you might want to put it at the top of the resume even though chronologically speaking it should be at the bottom of your resume because interviewers usually focus on the top two entries of your work experience.

Varies according to different individuals. Before transferring to my current college, I had to take off two years to work full time to help support my family financially. Should I include this break in my resume and explain why? They are different things to my knowledge. I am currently a 2nd year student at a semi-target in Canada. Problem is, I do very menial work researching potential clients, analyzing trends, making ppt presentrations etc.

What do I do? I have two options:. Definitely list it. Focus on your contributions to winning clients, and write about how your work could potentially lead to certain deals or certain amounts of fees generated for your firm. I study in a branch campus of an American university, should I include the location of the Satellite campus or both locations domestic and American.

I want to avoid confusion and help recruiters associate the satellite campus with the home campus in the States…. Thank you for your prompt response Nicole. Should I include only the location of the satellite campus? How can I help recruiters understand that the campus in Europe belongs to the American institution?

Include only location of satellite campus. Try to list the campus in Europe as affiliate to American institution. Does this and the fact that JP Morgan hires Liberal Arts degree holders and offers them pre training coursework and bootcamps to attend mean it does not matter if you have not done a business or economics related degree you will still get into investment banking?

Or is it harder to get into Investment Banking without a business or economics related degree? Secondly why do Investment Banks want only graduates i. If people like Schwarzman can get in and consequently get trained for a investment banking job and the fact that JP Morgan offers a Liberal Arts training program and bootcamp, why is a degree a prerequisite, when people can come into the banking industry knowing nothing about business or finance? Or is the degree whatever the subject a measure of how intelligent you are as a candidate and a way of measuring how good you will be at investment banking?

Or a way of seperating the wheat from the chaff? Many people who work at IB have degrees from prestigious universities; bankers place high importance on having degrees from a top tier schools.

Having degrees is a pre-requisite not just in banking but in other industries too. Degree can be a measure of how intelligent you are as a candidate even though it is not always an accurate measure. So basically having a high school diploma by itself means it is virtually impossible to get into investment banking? What if after you get your high school diploma you go and become a teller at a retail bank and work your way up to bank manager, then apply to a an investment bank, would you get in?

Since you have some banking experience, will a investment bank consider taking you on then, even without a degree? Hello, thank you for this great template! I have a question about citing Summer School Experience. Should I include it under my Undergraduate education? Should it be something like this? Should I expand it more? Is it appropriate to list it under a different section such as: Academic Programs?

Thank you for your reply Nicole! What do you think about it? Do you think we do not need to talk about it now? I am applying for some positions in London and I currently have only one reference, but he is famous. Would writing his name increase my chances? Hi, I am in my final in a double degree program in Australia — law and accounting.

In addition, would it look weird if I only had legal work experience? Average is fine unless they ask Not weird but try to have banking experience if you want banking jobs.

I still have two questions: 1 I am equally interested in Consulting and IB. I know that you mentioned to not include the High School in education. We will have to look at your CV via our resume editing service to see. It was just about style.

That would not be So I changed it to Century Gothic and pushed the bulletpoints with a tab to the right side, so that it is in one vertical line with the Dates, Places, etc. Wish I could show it to you — just the design. Hey, Brian.. Thank you for this template, it is really useful, as the rest of your website. I wanted to ask a question.. I am trying to apply to banks in Europe, and I have previous experience in a small VC firm, being the only finance-related experience I have.

Do banks really ask or email companies to check if the work experience is actual work experience? Should I include this experience then, or just forget about it? Hi, Thank you very much for providing us with this CV Template. It has made life so much easier. I went to well reputed International schools in Dubai and Cairo where I completed my O and A levels with rather decent grades.

So I was wondering if it would be worth mentioning the schools I went to or should I simply list down my grades or none of these would make any difference to my application. Btw, I am targeting only the UK market as I am doing my undergrad studies here. I would highly appreciate any suggestion! Financial internship experience, investment club experience matter. The GPA scale here is out of 20 points and there is not a widely accepted conversion method. Also the weighting system is different here, the highest GPA in my major was a There is no official conversion system… can I just say that I am in the top percentile?

Right now I have 3 internships listed in the section, and this project is top 2 finance experience. How should the CV be changed for students applying for spring weeks? Up to now I have had 3 jobs, one of them in an asset management-firm.

In another firm I was seller in a supermarket. Should I write this for my spring week application? Write about asset management experience. Write or not? I dont have anything to do with the investment projects. Can you give me tips how to turn this into creative relevant experience? Depends on what other activities you have. He works very independently and is absolute discreet and trustworthy. His behavior towards superiors and […]. Hi, I am attending a MSc in Finance and I am preparing for investment banking internship applications.

For example advanced valuation is a course of the spring term,should I write down it or not. I go to school in Asia and came to a well-known business school in Europe for exchange. My GPA is not high. Can I put the European school in education? You quite often state that analysts will be viewing the CV and will have only 30 seconds to read over the CV and therefore it should be kept to about one page like this template.

What if the position is being advertised by an HR firm, does this still apply? Should the same template be used with more detail or a standard CV template like when applying for any other role? Yes it still applies — always keep it short. Hi, I am working on the 3rd bullet point for my past investment banking internship.

Would you give me some guidance on which to choose? Or they both are too trivial to include? Try to highlight your role in the two projects and your modelling, leadership, communication, multi-tasking, coordination skills.

Should you really add programming languages to your resume, or will that make you look like too much of a nerd especially if your past work experience is in engineering? If you want to include the scores, and you also did really well, then I might include them. I go to an Ivy League school, but am from the Midwest. I did quite well on it and would like to include it on my resume. After school I went into construction and was an asst.

I was heavily involved in some large projects, and had sole responsibility for the handover of two. Further to this I have had an internship at a top insurance broker and was heavily involved in a major deal for the regional office I worked in I think it was the biggest they had had for 2 years.

I know my experience and university is not ideal for breaking into investment banking, but I want to give it a shot. I was wondering whether I should give more emphasis to the internship or my construction experience spinning it that I was involved with blue chip clients in a leadership role or to the internship as it is more relevant although not very relevant.

Yes, you can try to spin your insurance experience; I think this experience is more relevant than your construction experience, though both are marginally relevant. I did one of those sophomore programs offer at a bulge bracket bank for about a week. How should I include it on my resume since it is different from a regular internship? Yes — focus on tasks you have done and skills you have gained.

Remember, keep it punchy and brief. So can I make two separate entries for graduate and undergraduate and put school names and GPAs under each entry? Thank you a lot! Though its my only work experience; im not really in a heavily investing dept and this is my first work experience, should I list it and kind of jazz it up with the 3 point scheme like you suggested?

And this got some very good comments and people asked me about it and said that this was a very different interest. What do you think — Include or do not include? Yes, still use the 3-point scheme. Since I only have two relevant work experiences, I definitely need to combine them with leadership experiences. However, does this section need to be in perfect chronological order.

For example, I am a teaching assistant for intro finance starting in the fall and want to put that on my resume, but feel it should be below my work experience in that section although it is more recent. Does it matter if the section is slightly out of order, with work experience in order followed by activities in order.

Thanks for the great template! I started my own business when I was 18 4 years ago , and have be running it profitably ever since. Do you have any specific advise for applying to Spring Insight Programs? Also, since the applications open around September-October and they are designed for first year students in three year undergraduate programs, should you just skip listning your grades because at that point you have any?

Please help me out. So do you recommend we keep the [ and ] in our resume. No, those are for the areas where you fill in things… remove the brackets for actual resume.

Hey, I have a dilemma. I had trading work experience before i started university and i am preparing my resume for spring insight programs but i am very much interested in applying to the Investment Banking Division not securities.

Do you think I should include my trading work experience and if so, how can I word it in a way that shows i have an interest in Investment Banking? Yes, still include. Hi, Thanks for the great article. I was wondering if volunteering work should be included in the resume or not.

For example, I was involved in a 3 month volunteering program in South Africa. Should I include that in work experience or do banks just not care about that kind of work? Hey Just a quick question. T am currently working on Financial Modelling Research. I am thinking of including it in my work experience when applying for FT IB jobs. Thanks for all your help all your stories are very interesting and quite amusing. For next year I want to do a program called dream careers which gives you a guaranteed internship and housing etc.

Anyways my dilemma is that you can choose to either go do an internship in hong kong or new york. And these would be investment banking internships to note. The hong kong one would probably be with like societe general and the new york one is interesting because it does a week long investment banking class which teaches you investment banking stuff and gives you a Financial Analyst Trainee Certificate at the end of it then you work an internship with like a boutique investment bank.

So my question is what would be more valuable to get me into the NY program with the week long program to get the certificate and do an internship or go to hong kong and get the international experience. Keep in mind im already networking in NY right now. I own a restaurant in which I use much financial work for budgeting, reporting, and analyzing.

There are also many more things that I do in there that relate to leadership and team building. I was wondering how relevant it is to touch upon day programs i. If so, in what section should they be added?

Which sentence do you prefer:. Is the rest okay? Is it ok to list these finance and accounting classes under relevant coursework even if I have not completed them?

Also, to what extent is a class relevant? I go to an undergraduate business school so I have taken management, marketing, operations, entrepreneurship, etc. Is there a certain number of classes I should limit it to? I currently work at a very well-known wealth management firm, but I would like to find an internship as an investment banking analyst.

Most of my tasks were minor or clerical. Thanks for all the great posts and material on the site. I have a question about the resume formatting. Since i graduated from college 2 years ago, I have been working in Corporate finance in a 2 year rotational financial leadership program. The way this is structured is that I rotate to a new role every 6 months so that by the end of two years the candidate has great diverse experiences.

Now that I am nearing the end of my program I am considering going into investment banking. How do I list these 6 month rotations in the resume? My issue mostly related to space in the page as I have several other experiences and activities to add as well. Which of these would be more relevant to IB, in your opinion?

They were standard corporate finance roles. Managing the business from a financial perspective. They all had a ton to learn so its tough to choose? Maybe you can help me?

Any chance you can give me a few names I can call to get some interviews? There is at least a bottle of Blue Label or something equally good or better in it for you if it works out! Yes in the US you do not list your birth date on the resume. Would you insert your date of Birth into your resume? Same for any references from previous work experience.

If yes, where? I am a third year Commerce student wondering whether I should include a Teaching Assistant position on my resume. The course is not finance related Intro to Managing People — basically an organizational behaviour course but I feel like it demonstrates accountability, responsibility, leadership, initiative, etc… Do you think I should include it? There is no way to stand out or distinguish oneself now and everything resume looks the same. I was using this template way since but now EVERY single kid, student, recent grads, and their mothers has this format.

Thanks again for the post. Does that look a little repetitive? Also I forgot to mention that I paid for three day seminar sessions for off campus Finance training programs. In these sessions I learned the basics of financial modeling and tips in the business. Similar to Wall Street Prep, these programs are basically offered to corporate professionals and to university students to refine their skills. Depends whether you had specific projects or not… if yes, list those specific projects, otherwise just use task-based bullets.

Just list the month and year for the program. Thanks for the post. I am wondering whether research experience, and activity such as federal reserve challenge competition could be listed under work and leadership experience? Should I list them both or just the one I am graduating from?

Thanks, and thanks for the very informative article. I would just list October … if they ask you can say that it was a 1-day competition but took planning and strategy beforehand. Also, is it a wise career to stay in considering the amount of working hours?

Read the rest of this site for the second question. Any help you can lend will be most appreciated. Under the Work and Leadership Experience section, I have a club that I listed only starting out in college. Do I format that like so:. Club Name bold Position 1 italicize — — Position 2 italicize — —. Also, would it be acceptable to use this template for other jobs or is this primarily just for IB?

I m undergraduate student ill try to get an internship this summer, however i dont have any related work experience I did much sports and have lots of achievments is there any way to express my cv through the sport what other things should I include? My overall GPA will be a 3. Attempted Bachelor in Medicine? Medical Intern? Lost here. I gathered a decent amount of leadership experience and have an above 3. Just include 1 or 2 lines in Education under your current entry and say that you made progressed toward a medical degree but did not actually complete it.

Progress toward [Degree Name] or something like that is fine. In my case, I screwed up badly with a 2. X GPA during my freshman year, but improved significantly with an average of 3. How should I present this in the resume? Hey, your website has given me a lot of insight.

The competition for this is not particularly fierce but I know that it is very important for me to get this internship. However, I have no real work experience whatsoever. I did an internship at a small IT company overseas last summer, had an on campus job, and tutored some kids back in high school. I wonder how I can polish up my resume with so little to say.

My only shot at improving my resume is to actually get this internship so I can have something to put on my resume later on. What would you suggest for me to put on my resume and what to leave out? Most of the time they check it right before you start working so they expect GPA to change somewhat.

I am currently a Finance student at UBC. My GPA was really high before I got into my major. After I got into my major, I focused a lot more on other extracurricular activities i.

I have been pretty successful in most of the those activities, but my GPA has dropped to 2. I was wondering if i should still mention my GPA in my resume. No, you need to leave in overall GPA somewhere. Should I include this in the resume? Equally would Toastmasters membership be seen as irrelevant? Would it be advisable not to mention amateur boxing under interests, or would it come under the category of quirky hobbies which are likely to get me remembered?

Thanks so much. Do you reckon its important that we explicitly write the skills we acquired in the work experience entry? For instance, interned in IBD, analysed xx and so forth. Result: raised this amount of xx, boosted my confidence and sociability…?? I have now finished my ibanking internship in Asia and is trying to update my resume to include this experience. I am just wondering if you can give me an example on how I can make what I have here sound nicer?

Thanks for all the great advice. I was wondering about adding a reference to your resume. I got a reference from a CEO of major company whom I have worked for.

Can I add it? And if so, should I make an additional header? You could list it at the bottom. Say, if I come from one of the few western-european countries that still have mandatory military service for young men, do you think I should mention my 8-month experience as an observer in a tank artillery bataillion on my resume?

Thanks for your articles and your replies, they helped a lot to demystify the IB recruiting process for me. Would that be given more consideration as compared to listing a sales rep job? For positions that you currently occupy, should you use present tense for the bulletpoints?

Or should everything be kept to one tense? If I can speak almost at a conversational level in a language, what level of proficiency should I write it as on my resume? Or should I not even bother putting it on my resume at all? What would you say is the minimum font size we should be using on our resume in case there is a lot that we want to put on it. First of all thanks for all the useful info you are giving! Yes banks value that but you need to be good enough to write page financial reports perfectly in that language, I would still keep it to 1 line.

Great Site! How should I note that in my resume? Additionally Ive been in automotive sales for about two and half years now and I come across many investment banking executives. They all tell me that sales is a great place to start my career. I graduated college with a B. I really have no experience in Investment Banking. I deal with banks in order to qualify people for car loans but its more retail banking than any thing else. Also I was told to mention gross profit on my resume because its something that would catch they eyes of potential employers.

What do you think? Put it under activities. I am an undergrad applying for FT positions, a few Qs: 1. Does the same apply for PE firms as well? I took a look at your website and the sample resume and compared it to my own, I want to make a few changes.

Unlike your format, I had two lines for Honors and two lines for relevant coursework. All are relevant since I am going into my senior year. I also have three internship experiences and two leadership experiences. The proof is in the pudding. Your time is limited — so we get you the answers you need, breaking into wall street free download you need them right now.

A lot. Pick and choose which sections are most relevant to you. I recommend reviewing the table of contents first and then skipping to the questions you are most in need of understanding. Rather than reading everything passively, try to answer each question — and then check whether or not you got it right, breaking into wall street free download.

However, there are good ways to answer and poor ways to answer. In this section, we detail the best techniques along with what you should say — and avoid saying. They fail to use specific anecdotes to support their points. They do not structure their answers properly.

You should go through this list and your resume and make sure you have stories prepared for the most common questions — you can then use those and then adapt them as necessary for any new questions you get. Regardless of the question, you also need to structure it properly. Be succinct and conversational in your tone, and you should do fine.

Can you discuss your quantitative skills? In your last internship, you analyzed portfolios and recommended investments to clients. Can you walk me through your thought process for analyzing the returns of a client portfolio? The key breaking into wall street free download to break everything down into steps and be very specific about what you did.

Can you tell me about the process you used to analyze space requirements for the building designs you worked on this past summer? Similar to the reasoning above, break it into steps and start by discussing how you made the initial estimates, then how you refined them and made them more exact over time while staying within budget and collaborating with your team.

You breaking into wall street free download an English major — how do you know you can handle the quantitative rigor required in investment banking? Can you tell me about a time when you submitted a report or project with misspellings or grammatical mistakes?

Instead, briefly mention a time when you made a careless mistake and then spend the majority of time in your answer discussing what you learned and how you improved, citing another specific example of how you improved the second time around.

How well can you multi-task? In keeping with our theme of specificity, give a concrete example of a time when you were working on multiple projects at the same time — work, school, or activities work equally well for this one. Also emphasize that despite the considerable demands, you pulled off everything successfully.

Anything involving teamwork or collaboration is also good to use in this response. Have you ever worked on a project or report that was shown to a large number of people? A journal, student publication or anything similar could be good to mention here, as could anything shown to a client or multiple clients in your work experience or in an internship.

The key points: come across as an interesting person which you should have no trouble doing and also talk about how your experience better prepared you for investment banking. Walk me through your resume. For anyone in business school or beyond, it might be where you went to undergraduate, your first job, or even where you went to business school. Aim for minutes — if you go on longer than this, the interviewer may get bored or impatient. Be chronological. Investment Banking Interview Guide.

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