<p>Does anyone have an Ibanking resume book that they'd like to send to me, or if it's on the web, post the link? I'm currently a student at a top 5 target Ivy and would like to see what qualifications are necessary for Ibanking. Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>You're not going to discern what 'qualifications are necessary' by looking at a resume book for among other reasons there are no specific requisite qualifications. After displaying enough general intelligence and interest to get the interview, the rest is going to come down to personality and fit.</p>
<p>I asked if anyone had a resume book for me to see, not your useless opinion on the subject that absolutely got me no where.</p>
<p>if you're at princeton, surely you should know quite a few people who have received offers, so just ask them about their background, etc., and that should give you a rough idea</p>
<p>gellino's "useless opinion" is right though - resume books aren't really going to help you a whole lot. also, if you want people to help you out, you probably shouldn't be so rude</p>
<p>I think I know what's going to help me and what's not. Again, I gained nothing from your comment. Obviously I have been connecting with students in my school and all those other intangibles, but resumes will tell me everything I ever need to know, including formatting, etc. I asked a question, so answer that question, not another one of your useless opinions!</p>
<p>Its not going to tell you everything you're going to need to know. Honestly, formatting is pretty much all it will tell you and your career office should be able to help you with that anyway. </p>
<p>And seriously dude, your rude sense of entitlement has basically killed any chance you had of anybody actually helping you with your request. You should probably work on that instead of worrying about finding resume books - even if you manage to hide your arrogance in interviews your bosses aren't going to take to kindly to it during your internship and you're probably not going to get an offer.</p>
<p>also - at this point i can't tell if you're being serious or if this is meant as some sort of satire. if this was any field but finance we were talking about i would lean toward satire, but you can never be so sure on this board.</p>
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<p>Considering that I have worked in IB and interviewed candidates for positions and you have not, hardly makes my opinion 'useless.' You said you wanted to see resume books to see people's qualifications and with my experience I'm telling you that's not true. You didn't say anything about wanting to see formatting. For that type of stuff, I'm sure your career placement office can help you just fine.</p>
<p>Does anyone have an Ibanking resume book that they'd like to send to me, or if it's on the web, post the link? </p>
<p>Is that better?</p>
<p>To sum it up for you. A typical M&A Analyst resume.</p>
<p>SAT I:
1600, National Merit Finalist</p>
<p>GPA:
3.89</p>
<p>Experience:
Freshman Year: Private wealth management analyst at UBS
Sophmore Year: M&A Analyst at XYZ Bank - Developed pitch books and performed due diligence on 200 million dollar LBO
Junior Year: M&A Analyst at BB.</p>
<p>Done deal there it is for you</p>
<p>OK, that's nice...Again, I asked for a resume book, but at least you gave somewhat information I guess. So, if you have a resume book, then please respond. If you don't, then don't respond. Jesus.</p>
<p>I am not aware of any ibanking resume book like the one you described. There are resume books compiled by MBA schools of their own graduates. The MBA students from each school have access to them and they are for sale to mostly employers.</p>
<p>Each ibank generally puts together a resume book with the resumes of the entire incoming class that's used for various internal uses like group selection, etc. They are generally considered to be confidential though, and anyone who leaked one could potentially get in trouble for it, which makes me wonder why anyone would risk it to help out such an obnoxious tool like the op.</p>
<p>the best thing you are going to be able to find are mba resume books. I know wharton and tuck's books for the past year are floating around for free on the internet and shouldnt be too hard to find with some strategic google-ing.</p>
<p>FermatABC, I'm in the same position as you. (I'm at a target Ivy) I would also be interested in a resume book. Not because I think it's the only element or even a major element but rather that I want to consume all the information possible on IBanking. I know that there are several more important factors but as I sift through those I want to understand even the smallest similarities and differences in the selected individuals.</p>
<p>I'll post another "useless" comment, but I have to agree with those who said that looking at a resume book is pretty useless. for formatting, career services or a quick google search for investment banking resumes will help enough. Knowing about the culture at banks, their history, and what they are looking for will help even more. There are a few web sites out there (I never saved the links) that have some resumes posted for commentary, and some business school websites will have resume books available, but don't expect it to help much.</p>
<p>fermat, I don't think any firm would hire you (your attitude will show and no one would want to work with you)</p>
<p>If you're interested in sales & trading, you might want to check out the resumes at NYU Courant, Princeton Bendheim and Cornell ORIE. Columbia math & IEOR and Stanford math don't put their resumes online as far as I know. CMU, Baruch and Berkeley have narratives on their students. It gives you a sense of what trading desks are looking for.</p>
<p>As a caveat- to get a job in sales & trading is probably an order of magnitude (10x) harder than getting a corporate finance analyst job- i.e. at Citi- 12 capital markets SAs vs. 120 corporate finance SAs.</p>
<p>Another reason why resume books are not that helpful is you can't discern anything from them. If I gave you a list of 25 resumes from people at a school that interviewed for a position and said that 10 got offers in IB, you would be hard-pressed to distinguish by looking at the resumes which 10 got offers and which 15 didn't. Certainly working with someone at the career office at Princeton will help you more.</p>