After reviewing the basics, lets see how everyone did. To keep this short lets go over the main ideas.
1) No template is perfect, you simply need to make it break into a few sections 1. Name Address, 2. Jobs and Titles, 3. School, 4. Interests
2) You want to show you can use MSFT word, this template screams competence (small caps, large caps, bold, italics, alligns) can be more simple
3) As you move up the ranks your specifics become less important as your workload is large, you make sweeping accomplishments
4) At the low end you’re proving you learned a lot, note this is the opposite of above where you’re “showing” you can make the firm money
5) Even your interests and schooling should be moved in order of finance relevance, Case competition in finance > C++ skills
6) Your resume will be looked at with a magnifying glass… by 10+ people who want nothing more than to find a mistake to joke about
7) Feel free to add awards to job experience as well (Deal of the year, Institutional Investor, StarMine, etc.)
8) This is tailored more to the sell-side since the buy-side is less likely to need help in the resume department
9) No doubt there is an error somewhere in this document since it was done in a few minutes… Don’t let this be you
Good luck and hopefully, you make some extra paper this year.
Cover Letters? Will there be a template for that?
We can do a fast version of a cover letter.
At the end of the day 99/100 it’s not going to be read. When screening 200+ candidates it is simply inefficient.
Could you please upload that very same template but in .doc format? PDF’s cant be edited and i suck at figuring out which font you used in that template.
Font type doesn’t matter just stick with times new roman, arial or any of the other basic fonts. Don’t be using wingdings though!
ditto this would be very helpful