Hirerizz teamInvestment banking and markets resumes are read quickly, and deal experience comes first. Name the deals, the type, the size and your part in them. Then list the technical skills and tools that sit behind that work.
Keywords to put on a Investment Banking resume
Use the words that match your real experience. Do not copy a list you cannot back up in an interview.
Deals and advisory
M&A, ECM, DCM, IPO, QIP, buy-side and sell-side advisory, deal execution, due diligence, pitch books, teaser and CIM, transaction structuring, mandates.
Valuation and modelling
financial modelling, DCF, comparable company analysis, precedent transactions, LBO, merger model, sum of the parts, sensitivity analysis, valuation.
Markets and research
equity research, sales and trading, fixed income, derivatives, portfolio analysis, sector coverage, earnings analysis, market commentary.
Tools and credentials
Bloomberg, Capital IQ, FactSet, advanced Excel, PowerPoint, CFA, MBA Finance, SEBI ICDR, Takeover Code.
How to write them into your bullets
A keyword on its own is easy to ignore. A keyword inside a result is hard to ignore. Replace the brackets with your own numbers, and only keep a line if it is true.
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Weak: Worked on M&A deals. Stronger: Executed [X] M&A transactions worth ₹[X] crore in total, building the valuation model and managing the data room.
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Weak: Prepared pitch books. Stronger: Prepared [X] pitch books and [X] CIMs for clients in [sector], with [X] converted into mandates.
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Weak: Built financial models. Stronger: Built DCF and comparable company models for [X] companies, used in [X] client valuations.
Mistakes that hold a resume back
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Hiding the deals. Name the type, size and sector, even if the client stays anonymous.
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Listing tools only. Bloomberg and Capital IQ matter, but the output you made with them matters more.
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Overstating your part. Say what you personally built or ran, and what the team did.
Where to place the keywords
Put your strongest keywords in three places: your headline or summary, your skills section, and the bullets under your most recent role. Use the same spelling the job post uses. If a term has a long form and a short form, write both once, for example "Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)", and use the short form after that. Keep the resume to what is true, and keep it readable for a person as well as for software.
Check your resume against a real job post
Paste the job post and your resume into the resume keyword check to see which of its words your resume already uses.
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