Posted November 29th, 2008
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Free Sample Investment Banking Resume[this is a real resume, and a good example showing how a resume should be prepared]
Sample resume for Investment Banking
EDUCATION: University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business March 2003
Masters in Financial Engineering Candidate
Cornell University, College of Engineering May 1998
B.S.E., Chemical Engineering
WORK EXPERIENCE: SalomonSmithBarney, New York, NY
Associate (Intern) October 2002 – January 2003
Investigated the correlation of equity movements and changes in corporate bond
spreads for the corporate bond strategy group:
· Created a multi-factor model of corporate bond spreads and spread changes, including
equity market information as inputs
· Wrote code with a web interface that produces custom and/or batched reports comparing
equity and fixed income statistics.
Nomura Securities International, New York, NY & Tokyo, Japan
Associate 1999 – 2002
Member of the analytics group of a fund-of-fund asset management subsidiary.
Responsible for the quantitative and qualitative aspects of portfolio analytics,
reporting, and front and back office systems. Helped teach and manage 3 analysts.
Designed systems and formulas for the quantitative analyses of mutual funds:
· Created a derivatives analysis application: Automated the graphing of derivative
positions, the calculation of Greeks and VAR, and the valuation of equity and fixed
income options, futures and other exotic products.
· Designed a 50+ table relational database that serves as the back-end for a mutual fund
analysis and data-warehousing application. Coded the front-end as part of a threeperson
development team.
· Developed a warehousing, reconciliation and performance attribution system for a fixedincome
life insurance fund. Developed formulas to compute the gain/loss of a fund-offund
due to movements of the sub-fund-denominated currency.
Wrote monthly commentary on a long/short fund for client reports:
· Wrote monthly reports to investors about the performance, total and active risk,
exposures, and underlying models of a Japanese equity market neutral fund.
FOCUS Partners LLC, New York, NY
Associate 1998 – 1999
Prepared a 100+ page business plan for Latin American municipal service projects.
· Created over 20 project discounted cash flows.
· Forecasted revenues, capital and operating costs, profits (losses), IRRs, NPVs, debt
payments, and optimum equity/debt ratios.
· Presented this material to potential investors to raise private equity and debt.
COMPUTER SKILLS: VB, VC++, InterDev, Access and Excel VBA, Sybase, SQL Server, stored procs.,
SQL, UNIX, HTML, ASP, Java/VB-script, PERL, Matlab, S-Plus, Pascal
OTHER: Series 7 and 3. Passed the Level II examination of the CFA program. Interests:
Writing and listening to music, squash, windsurfing, traveling.
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Posted November 16th, 2008
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Free Sample Investment Banking Resume:In this sample resume critique, the certified professional resume writer at ResumeEdge explains the process of creating the client’s “after” resume from the client’s “before” resume.
So that you may easily compare them to judge the quality of ResumeEdge’s work, both the “before” and “after” sample resumes are linked below. They are also linked from the Sample Resumes page.
Sample Resume Critique
Dear Donna,
Given the fact that you are targeting business school and investment banking, I chose an “executive” style format for your resume. The executive-style format employs the Times New Roman font and is organized for conciseness and clarity, while also retaining an airy, uncluttered look. The resulting document is easy to read and quite elegant in appearance.
I began your resume by increasing the size of your name for emphasis. Next, I separated your contact information, with your address centered and your phone number and email address at either margin. This way, a hiring manager or admissions committee member can easily locate this data. I assumed that the hotmail address you used in your email to ResumeEdge is the most current address and I used it rather than the umich address from your old resume.
In the body of your resume, I added a “Qualifications” section. This brief paragraph uses information pulled from throughout your original resume to highlight some of your most impressive skills, including marketing, research, and management. In this section I emphasized your Carnegie awards, language fluency, and technical skills. This section gives hiring managers/admissions committees a quick summary of your assets.
Next, I listed your Education. In the following section, I listed your Professional Experience.
Throughout the Professional Experience section, I rewrote each bullet item to emphasize your accomplishments and achievements. I began each bullet point with the strongest action verb possible, while also rewriting and condensing the text for maximum impact.
For example, you wrote:
“Analyzed the global franchising industry with emphases on 8 Asian countries, including Japan and China; determined factors that contributed to Subway’s respective development.”
I rewrote this to read:
Charted Taco Tico’s expansion into Asia by analyzing global franchising industry in eight Asian countries, including Japan and China.
In another example, you wrote:
“Established and oversaw 13-member marketing department to increase audience rate by 40% for this entirely student-run radio station.”
I rewrote this to read:
Increased audience of student-run radio station 40% by establishing 13-member marketing department.
I ended your resume with a short list of “Additional Accomplishments.” This includes your experience on the student resolution panel and with the Girl Scouts. I recommend that you spell out “LS&A” for hiring managers unfamiliar with that abbreviation.
Modern resumes typically omit references to extracurricular activities and hobbies. But, since your business school application requests them, I included them here. As you accumulate more professional experience, such items will become unnecessary and should be deleted.
All decisions to modify or exclude data were in keeping with the guidelines and standards set forth by the Professional Association of Resume Writers (PARW). With this resume, you now have a powerful tool that’s well organized and aesthetically pleasing. It was a pleasure serving you, Donna.
Good luck in business school and your developing career.
ResumeEdge Editor
Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW)
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