Read on to discover how to truly set your resume / CV apart from everyone else’s,

rise to the top of the “interview list,” and start landing interviews and offers…

From: Nicole Lee

Senior Investment Banking Coach

Want to break into investment banking?

A lot of people do. But the majority of “candidates” never even land an interview .

Each year, over 100,000 hopefuls apply for investment banking jobs – and fewer than 1,000 get in. Your odds are less than 1%!

And with the way the market has been ever since “the crisis,” it’s not getting any easier…

Spend some time browsing around online and reading message boards and comments, and you’ll see people complaining that it’s “impossible” or that “no one is hiring anymore.”

Just one small problem: plenty of investment banks, private equity firms, and hedge funds are, in fact, hiring each year.

After all, junior employees always leave and move elsewhere and senior bankers may “retire” or move to other firms.

And if you can bring in revenue or save time/money for a firm, there will always be a spot for you.

So the demand is there… it’s just that finance firms have been getting more selective about who they interview and hire.

Do These Common Job-Hunting Problems Sound

Familiar to You?

• You’ve applied for finance roles, but you’re not getting call-backs, or you’re getting filtered out early in the process – before you even get the chance to prove yourself.
• Interviewers might be on-the-surface helpful. but they’re really just telling you “put offs” like: “It’s a tough market” or “Banks aren’t hiring .” They are hiring – they’re just not hiring you. And you need to change that.
• You’ve written a resume or curriculum vitae. but it doesn’t quite capture your skills, background, and abilities, and it doesn’t “sell” you effectively. Maybe others with inferior work experience, skills, or grades are getting offers and you’re not.
• Or perhaps you have a few “gaps” in your education or career that are costing your interviews or offers, and you’re not sure how to spin these gaps to your advantage.
• Or it could be that you are making some headway, but it’s a slow, grinding process. And you’re just “over it” and you’re looking to fast-track your rise into an investment banking or finance job.

I know this sequence of events all too well because I, too, once struggled to break into investment banking .

How I Got Got Rejected from Morgan Stanley – and

How You Can Avoid It

I knew I wanted an internship with Morgan Stanley  ever since the first semester of my sophomore year.

Everyone else around me was talking about internships on Wall Street and the glamour and prestige of working for banks like Morgan Stanley – I would have given anything just to have been the Excel monkey in a tiny cubicle there!

My problem?

I didn’t have the contacts, and I had no idea how to write a winning resume or cover letter that compelled interviewers to want to meet me.

Sure, I was a good student… plugging away all day in the library working on my assignments and always boosting my GPA. I was very involved with the student investment club, and had already completed an internship at a bulge bracket bank.

That was great experience for my age – but without a great resume I could use to market myself, it meant nothing .

I was desperately searching for any way to land an offer at Morgan Stanley – and I wanted it more than kids on Christmas want to open their presents early.

Have you seen kids rush out in the wee hours of the morning to open all their presents early? That was me trying to break into investment banking… only I couldn’t open my presents.

So I applied to my dream internship at Morgan – and got rejected .

How could they reject a star student like myself?

I had stellar grades, solid work experience, a top university on my resume, and I was a leader in the student investment club.

Heartbroken and dejected, I got really desperate and asked friends in the finance industry to review my resume… and the first thing they did was laugh. because it was just that bad!

I discovered why I hadn’t been getting investment banking interviews. my resume was awful .

• Instead of being a leader. I looked like a follower .
• Instead of getting results. I was getting nothing .
• Instead of being attentive to detail. I was attentive to minutiae .
• And instead of being a banker. I looked like a nerd .

This was the wake-up call I needed to adopt a new approach and get much better results.

I ended up winning an even better offer. so this story has a “happy ending.”

But before I get to that, first let me tell you what I tried that DIDN’T work.

The Search For Finance-Specific Resume Editing Services Begins

When I was first breaking into investment banking, it amazed me that there were no high-quality resume editing services .

Oh, sure, there were tons of “resume critique” services out there… but they were completely useless.

They used reviewers who knew nothing about finance and who kept making irrelevant comments on my resume.

Let’s face it: in most fields outside finance, resumes are a joke. The recruiter might spend more time looking at your photo on LinkedIn than he/she spends reviewing your experience.

But there’s nothing as competitive as investment banking – and to compete, you need an experienced professional. Someone who knows what EBITDA stands for.

Sadly, these services have not  improved since I was breaking into the industry.

Here are just a few of the problems I still see with the “generic” offerings out there:

• The resume reviewers have no experience in finance. They don’t know the lingo, they don’t know how to impress, and no, they definitely don’t know what EBITDA stands for.
• They give such vague comments that any feedback they do provide is useless… “Be more detailed.” Great, thanks for reminding me!
• Even if they claim to provide a “line-by-line critique,” they only give comments every few lines … if at all.
• They charge you for additional revisions and feedback. even if their “revision” consists of changing a single word.
• They charge you extra if you have follow-up questions. Unlimited Q&A for two-weeks? Forget about it.

At best, generic services leave you with a resume that sounds like it’s written in a “thick foreign accent” to bankers.

And that can ONLY create a bad impression.

Your resume needs to be written in fluent “Investment Banker” lingo.

I remain shocked to this day at how low-quality these services are.

I had to turn to friends and my own research, and waste months of time and effort to make my own resume stand out.

How I Fixed My Resume Mistakes And Landed an Internship at Goldman Sachs, And How You Can Do the Same

I knew my resume and cover letter were keeping doors closed for me…

And so I actually put months of time and energy into making both of them better and better.

I read books; I looked into research; and I interviewed IB professionals about what they were looking to see, and how they wanted to see it presented.

I also reviewed the resumes of people who had already broken in, and looked for common success factors.

Eventually, after more than a few iterations, I fixed my resume and ended up landing an interview and then an offer at Goldman Sachs.

My resume had improved so dramatically that I actually got an “upgrade” over the bank I had originally wanted to work at!

It sure wasn’t easy… and I did pour months of time into the process, but it all paid off in the end.

Don’t Make The Same Mistakes I Did

If you’ve been trying to break into investment banking, you’ve already invested a lot of time into the recruiting process…. but you don’t need to make the same mistakes I did.

You can stop wasting your time right now and get more interviews. starting TODAY.

One of the benefits of finally getting into the industry is that I finally got to review resumes myself and decide who received interviews and offers and who did not .

So I got to see firsthand exactly what works and what doesn’t work on a resume – how you get noticed, and how you get ignored.

The difference between landing an interview and never getting the call-back can be as tiny as 3 words !

Introducing Premium Investment-Banking Specific Resume

And Cover Letter Editing Services

What I’m offering is simple but profound:

I will take your resume and transform it into a resume that grabs the attention of finance industry professionals and presents you and your experience in the absolute best light.

When we’re done, your resume will grab bankers by the lapels and not let them go until they’ve given you an interview.

Specifically, here’s what you’ll get:

• Detailed, line-by-line editing of your banking resume – everything that needs to be changed is changed. No detail is ignored.
• Your experience will be “bankified”  regardless of whether you’ve been a student, a researcher, a marketer, financier, lawyer, accountant, or anything else.
• Optimal structuring – you’ll learn where everything from education to work experience to activities should go. Regional badminton champion? Stamp collector? You’ll find out where those should go too.
• The 3-point structure to use for all your work experience entries: simple but highly effective at getting the attention of bankers.
• How to spin non-finance experience into sounding like you were Gordon Gekko’s offspring .
• How to make business-related experience. such as consulting, law,  and accounting. sound like you worked on “deals” – just like a banker would.
• How to avoid the fatal resume mistakes that get you automatically rejected – nothing hurts more than making a simple oversight that gets you an immediate “ding.”
• Feedback, polishing and revisions. If you’re not satisfied with any part of your new resume, you get access to continued feedback and revisions – the number of revisions depends on the package you sign up for (see below).
• 5 business day turnaround time. We like to spend a lot of time on each resume and make sure it’s the best it can be before we send back our first round of edits… and we need “quality time” with your resume to make it perfect.

OK, But There Has to Be a Catch…

Make no mistake: a top-notch resume is your key to getting noticed and landing interviews.

But your resume alone cannot guarantee you a job. You still have to develop contacts in the industry and ace your interviews if you want to break in.

So I can’t do all the work for you – but I can do a lot of the heavy lifting .

“Do You Have Any Examples?”

I know what you’re thinking by now: “Sounds great, but do you have any examples of resumes you’ve edited?”

To show you exactly the level of service you’ll get after you sign up, I’ve linked to 2 example “Before” and “After” resumes below .

One of these resumes is from an experienced professional. and one is from a university student with significant internship experience.

Names, dates, company and client names, and other information have all been modified to protect clients’ privacy, but the substance of the edits is all there.

In addition to giving you these examples, I will also explain exactly what was wrong with each resume and what we did to fix it – after speaking with each client on the phone and getting more details on his/her experiences.

Experienced Professional’s Resume: