Would you include these on the resume at all i. Would you include a personal statement at the top of your resume which sums up your core skills and attributes or is it pointless? Occupies a project engineer position with leadership responsibilities including problem solving, planning, organizing, managing budgets and keeping costs under budget. Am confident I can move into Project Management based on being a Project Engineer with around two years of accomplished project management experience with experience speaking at conferences and conducting public presentations.
Any advice for someone who has work experience in banking but in back office, and wants to transition into becoming a trader or investment banking. Should I just follow the articles already written. Why do most people seem to not mention the name of a client when describing a project on their resume? Is there anyway I can re-enter the investment banks?
Can some certifications help? I have tried applying to most of the Investment banks opening on same level but the employers always ask for recent Investment banking experience. Please guide.
I am an engineer and working with a reputed MNC for 4 years now. In this time span, I came to know that even engineers can look for a career in finance domain. I have given CFA level 2 this year and awaiting its result.
I really want to get into Financial Research and Analysis but not able to find any way through. Please guide me on this. Just a question, i am currently working as a financial analyst at a Hospital reimbursement. Should i change my major to finance? I got a unique entry into IB. Started off in the business development team as an Associate supporting in originating new business.
Developed fair level of knowledge of how transactions are executed. As I grew in that role, I became a relationship person who overall managed the transaction coordinated with all the parties involved. Then finally, I pursued a more extensive deal execution role, where I was leading team of analysts and associates to execute transactions. There I too did lot of ground work on preparing models, IMs etc. At the same time also did term sheet negotiations and pitching for new business.
Want to get your views on how should I really reflect this in my resume since in IB people get to the origination and sales side at VP and above levels. Specially in context of the resume template you have shared for experienced professional. Focus on your deal and project experience. Also focus on how you sourced deals and becoming the main coverage person — I think this will make you stand out. Hey I have a question. I have an offer to work as an analyst in consumer banking at Citi.
Any advice? Think you should just follow the template we provided. I have done internship with engineering firm but I realised that chemical engineering is not something I would like to pursue in the long term.
Would like to make a switch in finance. Pursuing CFA level 1 this year. I would like to ask if it is recommendable if I pursue master of finance straight after college? I think you should look for a job in finance if you can. You should look for finance roles that interest you. I had 2 previous jobs and in between day-traded for a year.
I felt that it might look weird if I had a gap on my resume, so now trying to figure what I should put on. I did pretty well but decided to trade my own capital as at the bank I was only allowed to take the slightest if any risk. I moved to equities and started day-trading for a year and was killing it until my father got cancer, where I had to pull out my capital for his surgeries. Should I or should I not include my 1-year trading gig? What sort of details should I include?
Details of your portfolio size, returns, strategies, stock picks. Details of why you returned to salary-job — brief one liner will do. Details of your salary-job. Great site! I did not land an internship this past summer yet I am very interested in working at a bulge bracket in NYC.
Would you this template for internal transfers? Focus on the transactions you have been involved in and the skills you have gained in such transactions which pertains to banking in that particular country you want to move to.
In the case of internal transfers, while your resume matters, you should focus more on networking and impressing the group you are trying to switch to. Hi, these are phenomenal templates, but I have kind of a weird situation with which I need some advice. I am currently a financial analyst at a fortune , but it does not really have anything to do with IB.
It is sort of a hybrid between corp. I graduated this last spring and I have only been with the company for about 3 months, and I just now decided I want to switch to IB. I have interned at the same fortune before and a have held an internship at a commercial real estate firm where I performed valuations and presentations. My background is in finance and economics for undergrad.
For the job I am current working on, should I use past tense to describe the responsibilities or should I use present tense? I need your thoughts here, please.
I currently work for the global leader in financial engineering software where I am responsible for expanding the modeling capabilities of their flagship platform to support exotic derivatives and other instruments. My hope is the MBA will facilitate my career change. I am also open to relocating back home within the next years. I currently live in Toronto, Canada. But I am prepared to seek employment in the US, if necessary.
Any courses or materials that you can recommend? 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. Just to clarify working in one location wont give me a better resume buffer to get into a bulge bracket firm correct?
Thanks for the template. I am from the UK, I have my 1st degree in law, i am a qualified solicitor and just about to finish my master in coporate law and finance. I have always loved to work in the bank though read law, i now want to move into IB with no work experience in banking, as an analyst, do you think i have a chance and do you think networking is the best way? I will appreciate your help thanks. Yes, networking is necessary pretty much everywhere. You can still get in but you really want an internship or other work experience first.
At the moment i m stuck in CV template, can you kindly recommed me about which template to be used for sound response for employers. On the side I am also a part time instructor for senior level accounting courses.
Should I put the professional exam rankings? Should I be mentioning that I am knowledgeable in modelling and where should I put it? I would likley integrate some aspect of it in my experience above. Try to have on winning clients and on deals, managing staff is not as important. Maybe spend 1 line on it. I would not focus on it unless you made your firm a significant amount of money by doing that or something similarly impressive. Love the site. Quick question. I am an MBA in Finance with graduation degree in engineering.
Can you please suggest how to move ahead with my progression and what are the special skills required for it? Thanks SK. If you already have an MBA all you can do is network aggressively look under Recruiting at the top of the page and focus on very small firms. Absolutely love the site. I graduated from college in December with a finance degree and an accounting degree, both with mediocre GPAs. The first round of interviews I got were for consulting and accounting jobs were mediocre wanna-be bankers such as myself go to die.
The mistake I made was taking the first job offered to me which has turned out to be a complete bust. My contract with this hell hold of a company goes for 1 year however I am pretty dead set on getting out of here in 6 months. The projects I am working on will add a value to my resume and I have learned valuable life lessons about taking a job for the money instead of fit. Should I leave it off my resume or just put down what valuable things I did and tell them that I resigned due to not being a good fit?
Or not say anything at all unless it is brought up. I am about to complete my graduation now and worried about the job opportunities. Although i have dual knowledge of IT and Finance, i am unable to creatively prepare my resume due to lack of experience. I have also include my research assistant experience gained on-campus and 3 months of Internship experience on my resume.
Have i made the right thing by including the graduate projects and work experience mentioned above? Sure that sounds good.
So should I focus on presenting this experience in my resume even though it was only internship? Will the bankers even consider this as experience? Finding a template tailored to your needs can prove to be a challenge as very few of these available around you.
Another source for investment banking resume samples is from experts who design and store them. Resume templates sample books usually found in libraries are other places where you can acquire templates.
Bank Teller Resume Template Sample. 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! Want to save time and have your resume ready in 5 minutes?
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