Junior at non-target Resume Critique, need ANY internship
Hey WSO,
First post after reading these forums for a while. I'm a junior at a non-target for IB and maybe semi-target for other areas, and I don't have any internships. It's a long story, I failed miserably in engineering at a top school in canada and then slept through first two years in business. I moved to US permanently and transferred into sophomore year in finance. I have woken up finally and now I'm dreaming big apparently, and my resume sucks.
This resume is not for IB alone but anything that has the word intern and finance(and all other relatives) in the same line. I know you guys might frown on the objective but its there to fill up some space, and please suggest on spinning my job descriptions into accomplishment type sentences even though there aren't any.
Also, if I spam this resume(with keyword tailoring) on every relevant internship posting I see, what are the odds ?
Thanks
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Did Doostang tell you to put an objective statement?
Doostang did tell me to improve the objective by making it more about the company than myself, but I had it in there before that as it was suggested by an advisor at my Career Center. However, it is likely the advisor was following a more general approach rather than tailoring it specifically for finance. Like I said, without those three or four lines there is too much white space at bottom. Is the objective section actually more detrimental than white space at bottom ?
it'll be tough. As a current non-target junior in your spot--make sure you know your activities. If you list all of that experience-- pivot tables, regression, B loops, etc.-- they will grill you on it, especially given your lack of experience
Also, make your margins a little smaller. I had my resume looked over (had the same margins you seem to have) by a BB recruiter and her explicit feedback was smaller margins. I know you are struggling to fill the white space but take it for what it's worth
Best of luck
Thanks, I changed the margins to the narrow setting on word and it does look better.
Do you have any suggestions on how I should go about applying ? Should I just go on attack mode and apply to everything possible and hope to score an interview ?
One friggin internship would do wonders to my confidence right now.
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