Be brutal. Princeton student resume advice. Looking for roles in quant, PE, or hedge fund. Feeling late to the game and not landing interviews.
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Ur bullet points r dog shit and there’s too much white space. Try using the WHO format, what you did, how you did it, and the outcome. All one a sentence, spend more time on the outcome than the rest and use numbers as much as possible. Doing this should fix your whitespace issues.
Edit: also bro find something more interesting for your personal interests. A buddy of mine has “evening tee times” as opposed to just golf. Get anything school or finance related out of there.
Also your interests shouldn’t have anything to do with school or finance. Are you a sports fan? Are you a morning or evening tee times guy? This is ur chance to show someone you have never meet you are a real person and in my opinion u are failing.
By white space issues, do you mean less line breaks? Or more so just filling up the lines themselves? Are margins okay or should I widen my text?
Noted about including more outcome-based results/numbers
Both filling the lines and the bottom right corner. You may want to make the margins smaller if you find yourself hurting for space. You have so much experience and that’s great but it’s not presented very well.
Getting into HF/PE directly at good shops is unlikely, i'd widen your job search into ER/IB too
Why is it unlikely? Lack of experience? Is there anything I can do to make it more likely
Lack of finance experience makes PE a very tough sell out of UG. Most UMM/MFPE analyst programs look for people with consulting/IB SA experience and there’s like 4 reputable hedge funds that hire undergrads through a pipeline for discretionary L/S. most of them have already filled large swathes of their classes
What are good HF shops for undergrads?
I think this is a very personal question, tbh. There’s a few single managers with sticky capital, good culture and opportunities for mentorship which are important and give you runway, but these are very hard to find and it’s unlikely an undergrad will just stumble onto these, so I won’t really comment on them since these really are case by case.
You should only do HF out of undergrad if it’s a public markets career you know you want to pursue, and I’d suggest Point72 Academy is the only one that’s really a no brainer for most talented kids that can feasibly do HF out of school.
After that, options are pretty dependent on how good you are as an undergraduate. If you’re already better than a sellside ER associate or IB analyst with 2 YOE in technical skill, modelling (buyside modelling specifically) and idea generation, then really any reputable fund is fine. You don’t need any training and just need a seat. This is describing a handful of people though, most people that do HF out of school are talented but need training and runway which P72/Citadel associate program provide.
Only real issue with CAP & MLP’s UBS placement is that citadel and MLP themselves don’t give you that much runway at all when you actually hit the desk.
I’ve seen people do CAP which has good training, and then get axed in their pod immediately or not get hired…MLP’s program puts you in sellside ER and at that point you’re not really missing out on anything if you take a solid EB/IB group first and decide to do MMHF a year later. They’re not bad programs at all, they just require more thinking to take vs solid sellside offer vs P72 academy
You should anonymize your resume. It took me all of two seconds to figure out who you are.
You're too doxable lol found your linkedin in 10 seconds
Not trying to be a dick here, but have you tried Princeton’s Finance department (afaik there is one)? Most professors I talked to were happy to help as long as it wasn’t a significant burden and that the student is actively trying.
Also, everyone is struggling right now, so I would assume buy-side is extremely tough right now.
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