Why your resume sucks...

[DominiConnor]

Stupid mistakes can kill your application
Over at The Register I talk in terms of IT resumes, but as you'd expect much of it is the same for Quants.
We are in interesting times and even in good times the best jobs are competed hard for and despite the skepticism I hear that "I'm a quant, not a professional writer or sales droid", the fact is that you are selling and you are writing for money, a lot of money.

 

[Shantanu Kumar]

How about these ?

 

[gradaplicant]

Could you please post some advice, or possibly a form on how a good resume should look?

 

[DominiConnor]

Excellent, thanks for the link.
They certainly aren't sloppy and I particularly like number 7, the Hagan Blount one.

Part of your application strategy should be to have multiple resumes a risk management technique that is much the same as "don't put all your eggs in one basket". A weird CV might get you into somewhere that you'd otherwise get lost in the crowd, or blow up your application entirely.

 

[D C]

Thanks for sharing DominiConnor - reminds me of what Crack has to say on the subject (though this also falls over into interviews).

 

[IlyaKEightSix]

So I should put US citizen at the top of my resume, in your opinion?

 

[TRobinson]

I just applied for a transfer to the top engineering school in Australia! Not that you care :D

 

[Andy Nguyen]

So I should put US citizen at the top of my resume, in your opinion?

I've seen resumes with mentions of citizenship at the footer but it comes off a bit desperate to me.
Here is what the International Office at University of Chicago's Do and Don't list
https://internationalaffairs.uchicago.edu/pdf/dos_applicants.pdf

 

[DominiConnor]

Ilya, maybe but I don't know your last name.