Is my CV enough for a junior position in forex or financial services sectors ? (For example : junior dealer/trader/financial analyst/research assistant etc.)

3 comments

1. Hide the university on the summary. Or unhide it from the education 🙂

   Looks ok to me but I’m not the greatest reviewer.

2. Way too cluttered. You are applying for an entry lvl position. Making your CV look more busy doesn’t make it better. In fact it achieves the opposite.

   Fix font size and spaces (why is there 1 millimeter space on the sides? Use normal spacing) and if your CV doesn’t fit in 1 page, you have to cut stuff out. Your 3 month customer support position does not warrant taking 50% of the work experience page.

   Excel, R, Stata also does not need a section of its own. Just 1 bullet point saying “Excellent proficiency at X”.

   Also, you want at the top the sections that are the most relevant to the job you want to land. It’s an entry level position so your work experience is mostly irrelevant. Put your Education, TA, certification sections higher if you’re aiming for FX/trading. And if you wanna make yourself stand out, since you mention how you traded on demo accounts and such, if you had success, print out your trade history and mention in your CV that trade history is available upon request.

3. For Forex you might want to go into one of the chicken factory positions like sales and retention. Horrible work, but you’ll get a good grounding of how people trade and what they do. This will be valuable when looking to move into dealing or back office. I would say you path could be sales, support/back office, then into finance or dealing.

   Qualifications are nice but actual experience in the industry is going to get you in.

   But FX is soulless harsh and high pressure environment. You might be best off aiming for one of the big4 and into auditing or something less evil.

   Good luck!