CFABLACKBELT Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- … > For 6) This has always been somewhat of a scar on > my resume. I graduated and had a nice position > lined up, but snapped my collar bone in half 1 > week after graduation. I had to get surgery and > this basically put me out for nearly 4months. > (Really miserable experience). I had to start the > job search process all over again. … Don’t worry about it. People do all sorts of things - travel, etc. You’ll just have to find the right word / expression to cover for it (I’m sure there are standard phrases even though I don’t know them…). It’s “just” four months. You should also stop to think about it as a “scar”, it’s just what it is. Don’t put any value (any negative value) in it. I guess it was also a period that helped you deal with adversities, disappointement, getting back on your feet etc - that’s actually a valuable experience that you could turn into an advantage.
I think that’s a good tip from MehdiOchre. You probably will be asked about it in your interview, and as he/she suggested, the best way for you to handle it is to (1) paint a vivid picture of your injury and exactly how severe it is, but that (2) it gave you the courage and willpower to contribute in other areas of your life, and you still found ways to be a productive individual. For example, while you were recovering, were you helping your parents with their family business? Did you find volunteer opportunities to help kids and underprivileged folks? Did you spend your time working on the CFA program and furthering your knowledge of finance, knowing that once you were able to get back into the workforce you could confidently hit the ground running? Lastly, did it occur to you that even despite a broken collarbone, you could be a contributing member of society? These are all things worth discussing in an interview, and show how you’ve been able to turn an adversarial situation into a positive one.
it suxs. - no one cares about your objective - nobody knows what an IRO (investor relations officer) is. is that someone who works at the call center answering phones? Are we supposed to be impressed because you work with coworkers? - the florida homesteader?
Dude you dont have to be a dick. The IRO is usually someone in a high-level management position and in smaller/mid cap companies the IRO can be the CFO. Where exactly in my resume am I trying to impress employers that I work with coworkers? Florida homesteader was a company I worked for in school for a brief period. Just shows that I did something and I have debated taking this out all together. CPAbeatsCFA Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it suxs. > > - no one cares about your objective > - nobody knows what an IRO (investor relations > officer) is. is that someone who works at the > call center answering phones? Are we supposed to > be impressed because you work with coworkers? > - the florida homesteader?
your resume should simply say the following: “I know a guy who knows a guy who shops at the same store with a guy that is friends with someone that works at fidelity” Fin. Just send that as your resume and sit back, drink some scotch and light up a cigar…you will get starting offers of 500K base easy
i was just messin around dude chillax
MehdiOchre Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > CFABLACKBELT Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > … > > For 6) This has always been somewhat of a scar > on > > my resume. I graduated and had a nice position > > lined up, but snapped my collar bone in half 1 > > week after graduation. I had to get surgery > and > > this basically put me out for nearly 4months. > > (Really miserable experience). I had to start > the > > job search process all over again. > … > > Don’t worry about it. People do all sorts of > things - travel, etc. You’ll just have to find the > right word / expression to cover for it (I’m sure > there are standard phrases even though I don’t > know them…). It’s “just” four months. You should > also stop to think about it as a “scar”, it’s just > what it is. Don’t put any value (any negative > value) in it. I guess it was also a period that > helped you deal with adversities, disappointement, > getting back on your feet etc - that’s actually a > valuable experience that you could turn into an > advantage. Thanks for the advice (you too Numi) on this. I don’t really feel like I have a problem discussing this in the actual interview. It has always been brought up in my interviews though and it does make me wonder how many interviews I didn’t get because of this. Not sure whether there is anything I can do about that.
You probably aren’t being dinged because of that. Like I said, it’s easy to explain. Very few people have spotless resumes – my resume certainly has its share of things that need to be explained – but that’s life and you just have to do the best you can.
Great post. I would be interested in hearing numis pov on a b school resume template versus one he recommends. I’m not very impressed with the forced template for campus postings, but there is nor much I can do. I’ve heard others elsewhere say likewise.
QuantJock_MBA, thanks as always for the positive feedback. The template I use for myself as well as the people I advise is based off of the Harvard Business School resume template, with some additional stylization and formatting. I find that these small details can make the resume more visually appealing, but generally template is quite simple. With that said, if I were you I would focus less on what template you use and more on the content and methods by which you present information. For example, most people’s resumes including the original poster’s are too heavy on the execution and tactical stuff; instead, they should be thinking more about how to present those very points through the lens of someone that possesses leadership, creativity, and motivation. There are simply too many people out there that are good at “doing stuff well” in the job market. The employer does want someone with the basic skills for the job, but what they *really* want to know is, “Are you a leader or a follower?” Thus, the people that get hired are the ones that have been able to either (1) demonstrate leadership at every level, or (2) make it seem like they have the motivation and creativity to have done things better than their peers, even if in reality they did not. To the latter point, resumes and cover letters are examples of documents where oftentimes what you actually say matters less than how you say it. Remember that by definition, 49.9% of the population out there is below the median in terms of skill but the unemployment rate is much lower than that – how so? The truth is, plenty of average people are still getting hired these days; it’s all about how you market yourself. Anyway, I just thought I’d put that out there since I’ve received a number of questions on this forum and via e-mail about resume formatting. I probably obsess over formatting as much as anyone (just because I’m a bit neurotic to begin with), but I’ll also say that it matters less than you think. What’s really important is the content and how you present yourself, so spend more time focusing on that stuff and less time on the formatting! That said, if you or anyone else wants a copy of my template for their personal use, feel free to drop me an email and I’ll send it over.
CFABLACKBELT Wrote: … > Thanks for the advice (you too Numi) on this. I > don’t really feel like I have a problem discussing > this in the actual interview. It has always been > brought up in my interviews though and it does > make me wonder how many interviews I didn’t get > because of this. > > Not sure whether there is anything I can do about > that. That may be the case, but a lot of people are discarded simply because the recruiter read their resumes late in the afternoon when they were tired and wanted to go home, and while they were reading it their friend called to draw up the plans for the evening, so they put your cv aside and never looked at it again because they simply forgot to follow it up the next day. Or maybe they already knew who they wanted to hire - some friend of theirs - so they discarded many good applications because of this. Or they arranged an interview for you but the hiring manager had already decided upon some other favourite candidate because they both went to the same school or came from the same town or shared the same sense of humour. A job interview is not exactly a fair contest where the best man wins… In any case you would probably not want to work for a company that discard people merely on the grounds that they had necessary surgery in the distant past. That might be a hint that this particular company isn’t a very nice employer to work for anyway, and your experience will help you not to land a job at some such place. Also: the other year I worked at this large bank and one dealer was blind (he had an adapted computer keyboard with Braille)… he obviously must have had a job interview at some point since he held a permanent position with this bank.
I actually used Numi’s service for my resume, and it was probabaly 100 times better than my school’s career services. Of course, I could have them review my resume for free, but the level of service you will get from Numi is totally different. And if I get the job, I don’t really care how much I paid him for the service, and frankly I think it’s very reasonable. If you don’t go out for one weekend with your friends, you can have Numi review your resume, and he will revise mulitiple times until your resume is damn good.
Thanks dhyun3. I appreciate the positive feedback! Sounds like the recruitment process has been going well for you – I’m not surprised. Best of luck and please keep me posted on any developments.