Resume Tips
Investment Banking Resume Tips
Every point of contact you make must communicate that you have the skill set to succeed as an investment banker. Your resume, informationals and interviews all must make repeated attempts at conveying these qualities.
- Executed $500 million transaction…
- Increased revenues by 30%…
- Reduced costs by 30%…
- Generated $1M in commissions…
Emphasize skills and experiences that are relevant to investment banking. Examples:
- Created complex valuation/statistical model…
- Completed industry analysis…
- Coordinated merger integration…
Refer to numerous banking resumes. Sources may include:
- Your school’s career office
- Resume books
- Internet
- Friends, classmates or acquaintances in the industry
- Vault.com
Never never never submit a resume with typographical or grammatical errors!
Banks use every point of interaction as a basis for evaluating you. They figure, if they find a mistake on your resume when you’re doing your best to impress them and land a job, how diligent will you be once you’re hired?
Incorporate as much investment banking terminology as you can. However, do so with caution and don’t go overboard. Examples:
- Pitched
- Modeling
- Analysis
- Mergers & acquisition (M&A)
- Equity
- Debt
- Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
- Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
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