Tired of Spending 8 Hours a Day Trying to Break Into Investment Banking and Never Getting Anywhere?

Discover How to Make Your Resume Shine and Land Investment Banking Interviews

Want to break into investment banking?

A lot of people do. But the majority of those who want to break in never even land an interview. Each year over 100,000 apply for investment banking jobs – and fewer than 1,000 get in. Your odds are less than 1%!

And with the way the market has been lately, it’s not getting any easier!

Does any of this sound familiar?

• You dig through your alumni connections, friends and acquaintances and finally find a few who are in finance…. email 50 of them and finally get a response from 1 or 2… maybe.
• You send your “updated resume” to them… and wait to hear back.
• You keep waiting.
• You wait some more.
• You wait a few more weeks…
• And a few more weeks after that.
• You never hear back.
• Ok, sometimes they get back to you… but they’re “not hiring.” It’s a “tough market.”

I know this sequence of events all too well because I, too, once struggled to break into investment banking.

How I Got Got Rejected from Morgan Stanley – and How You Can Avoid It

I knew I wanted an internship with Morgan Stanley the first semester of my sophomore year.

Everyone else around me was talking about internships on Wall Street and the glamour and prestige of working for banks like Morgan Stanley – I would have given anything just to have been the Excel monkey in a tiny cubicle there!

The problem?

I didn’t have the contacts, and I had no idea how to write a resume and market myself.

Sure, I was a good student… plugging away all day in the library working on my assignments and always boosting my GPA.

I was very involved with the student investment club, and had already completed an internship at a bulge bracket bank.

That was great experience for my age – but without a great resume I could use to market myself, it meant nothing.

I was desperately searching for any way possible to land an offer at Morgan Stanley – and I wanted it more than kids on Christmas want to open their presents early.

Have you seen kids rush out in the wee hours of the morning to open all their presents early? That was me trying to break into investment banking… only I couldn’t open my presents.

I applied to my dream internship at Morgan – and got rejected.

How could they reject a star student like myself?

I had stellar grades, solid work experience, a top university on my resume, and I was a leader in the student investment club.

Heartbroken and dejected, I got really desperate and asked friends in the finance industry to review my resume… and the first thing they did was laugh, because it was just that bad!

I discovered why I hadn’t been getting investment banking interviews: my resume was awful.

• Instead of a leader, I looked like a follower.
• Instead of getting results, I was treading water.
• Instead of being attentive to detail, I was attentive to minutiae.
• And instead of a banker, I looked like a nerd.

So my story didn’t end there – using my friends’ suggestions, I completely revamped my resume – and things turned out better this time around.

Resume Editing Services, Anyone?

One of my biggest frustrations when I was breaking into investment banking was that there were no high-quality resume editing services.

Oh, sure, there were tons of “resume critique” services out there… but they were completely useless. They used reviewers who knew nothing about finance and who kept making irrelevant comments on my resume!

Let’s face it: in fields outside finance, resumes are a joke. I know from firsthand experience, because my resume was a joke before I broke in.

There’s nothing as competitive as investment banking – and to compete, you need an experienced professional. Someone who knows what EBITDA stands for.

Sadly, none of these services have improved since I was breaking into the industry. Here are just a few of the problems I still see:

• Those who review resumes have no experience in finance… they don’t know the lingo, they don’t know how to impress, and no, they definitely don’t know what EBITDA stands for.
• They give such vague comments that any feedback they do provide is useless… “Be more detailed.” Great, thanks for reminding me!
• Even if they claim to provide a “line-by-line critique,” they only give comments every few lines… if at all.
• They charge you for additional revisions and feedback, even if their “revision” consists of changing a single word.

I remain shocked to this day at how low-quality these services are. I had to turn to friends and my own research, and waste months of time and effort to make my own resume shine.

How I Fixed My Mistakes and Landed an Internship at Goldman Sachs – and How You Can Do the Same

I eventually fixed my resume and landed an offer at Goldman Sachs – my resume had improved so dramatically that I actually got an “upgrade” over the bank I had originally wanted to work at.

But it sure wasn’t easy… and I wasted months of time and energy doing so.

If you’ve been trying to break into investment banking, you’ve already invested time into the recruiting process…. but you don’t need to make the same mistakes I did.

You can stop wasting your time right now and start getting interviews TODAY.

One of the benefits of finally getting into the industry is that I finally got to review resumes myself and decide who received offers and who did not.

So I got to see firsthand exactly what works and what doesn’t work on a resume – how you get noticed, and how you get ignored. The difference between landing an interview and never getting the callback can be as tiny as 3 words!

My Offer: A Top-Notch Professional Resume Edit

What I’m offering is simple but profound: I will take your resume and transform it into a resume that grabs the attention of bankers and doesn’t let them go until they give you interviews and offers.

Here’s what you get:

• Detailed, line-by-line editing – everything that needs to be changed is changed, and no detail is ignored.
• Your experience will be “bankified”… regardless of whether you’ve been a student, a researcher, a marketer, financier, lawyer, accountant, or anything else.
• The optimal structure for your resume – where everything from education to work experience to activities should go. International badminton champion? Stamp collector? You’ll find out where those should go too.
• The 3-point structure you should use for all your work experience entries: simple but highly effective at getting the attention of bankers.
• How to spin non-finance experience into sounding like you were Gordon Gekko’s offspring.
• How to make business-related experience, such as consulting, law and accounting, sound like you worked on deals – just like a banker would.
• How to avoid making the mistakes that get you rejected – there’s nothing worse than making a simple oversight that gets you an immediate “ding.”
• Unlimited feedback and revisions. If you’re not satisfied with your resume, you get my continued feedback and revisions until it’s perfect.
• 5 business day turnaround time. I like to spend a lot of time on each resume and make sure it’s the best it can be before I send you my edits… I need quality-time with your resume to make it perfect.

Ok, But There Has to Be a Catch…

Make no mistake: a top-notch resume is your key to getting noticed and getting interviews.

But your resume alone cannot guarantee you a job. You still have to develop contacts in the industry and ace your interviews if you want to break in.

So I can’t do all the work for you – but I can do a lot of the heavy lifting.

Do You Have Any Examples?

I know what you’re thinking by now: “Sounds great, but do you have any examples of resumes you’ve edited?”

Below I present 2 examples of previous resumes that I’ve edited. One of them is a lackluster resume to begin with, but I’ve turned it into a “great” resume with my revisions.

And one of them is already “good” – but you know that “good” is not “good enough” to get you into finance. You need to be great.

Here’s a “before and after” for both these resumes (with names and personally identifying information removed) – so you can see the kind of personal attention and high-quality editing you’ll get:

Poor to Great:

Good to Great:

And it’s not just consultants who have found my service useful – just ask anyone who’s worked in other areas of finance:

Even if you’re a trader or you want to get into a hedge fund, you can’t go wrong:

What If I’m an International Student, or I’m Applying for Jobs Outside the US?

The resume editing process is similar regardless of the country, and firms standardize their recruiting methods – so my critique and editing will apply equally regardless of whether you’re applying to New York, Hong Kong, London, or anything in between.

One note here: resumes in Australia are quite different. If you’re from Australia but you’re applying to other countries and therefore using a standard 1-page resume, that’s fine.

But if you’re using a multi-page resume as is typical for domestic positions in Australia, this is not the service for you.

What If I’m in Business School or Have an Advanced Degree?

We find that these clients often need the most help – whether that’s in recognizing what banks today look for in resumes, or knowing how to highlight only what’s important to fit on a 1 page document.

If you’re unsure, just reach out and discuss it with us.

If I’m a Sophomore or Junior in College, Can I Still Use This?

Yes, anyone who is applying to finance/business opportunities – internships or full-time jobs – can take advantage of this resume editing.

Anyone from a freshman in college to a business school student to a senior professional can benefit from having a top-notch professional resume edit.

I’m Concerned About My Privacy – Do I Need to Include My Real Information?

No, feel free to delete your personal contact information and anything else you don’t want me to see. I understand that everyone is concerned with privacy on the Internet – I wouldn’t submit a resume with my personal information included either!

It’s the content of your resume that matters – not the contact information or names of specific companies or universities. So feel free to remove anything you are not comfortable sharing.

What About for Senior-Level Positions?

I will review resumes for anyone up to the VP level. My service is not appropriate if you’re a Managing Director or C-level executive, as those types of resumes have very different requirements and accepted styles.

Anyone entry-level to mid-level can use my service.

Do You Edit Cover Letters?

Yes, I do. You receive a 30%+ discount on cover letters over the standard resume editing service.

Click here to sign up for cover letter editing right now.

My Resume is Already “Pretty Good” – How Much Can You Really Help?

Most resumes could use some improvement – whether in content, formatting, or both.

Formatting, in particular, tends to kill otherwise good resumes – I’ve seen plenty of qualified candidates get rejected simply because their resumes looked awful.

You wouldn’t want to spend days working on your resume and then get rejected because you misspelled a word, or because your hyphens were different lengths, right?

If you are not satisfied by my edits and feedback, keep in mind that I do offer a 100% money-back guarantee – so all the risk is on me, not you!

Do You Edit Both Content and Formatting?

Yes, both formatting and content are covered. After all, it’s hard to get interviews if your resume looks like a 5-year old scribbled it together with crayons.

Ok, So How Does This Work? What Do I Do Next?

1. Click here to sign up for the services.
2. After you order, you’ll be directed to a page where you can submit your resume in Word format so I can make my edits directly in the document. You can also send any other instructions or questions you have.
3. I will respond with my edits and detailed feedback.
4. You review my edits and comments, and send me another version with any questions you have.
5. I edit your second draft and you can continue to ask questions after that.

How Many Rounds of Edits Will You Complete? Is Everything Done Over Email?

We will complete two rounds of edits for your resume and/or cover letter via email. Within a fourteen-day period starting from the day you sign up, you can still ask unlimited questions or request reviews of minor edits via email.

We usually respond within 24 hours, and will make sure you are completely satisfied with your resume. After that fourteen-day period, we will be happy to address specific questions, but will no longer complete additional work on the resume.

Is There Any 2-Way Communication? Can I Ask You Questions?

Yes, there is unlimited feedback on your resume/CV in the 14-day period starting from the day you sign up.

Usually I provide one set of edits in my first round of feedback and then you fill in additional information and we exchange the final version of your resume.

Can I Speak with You Over the Phone to Explain My Experience?

If you feel this is necessary, we can set up a time to speak briefly about your experience and anything else I should know.

The majority of my customers feel that email is fine, but if you wish to explain your specific circumstances over the phone / Skype, I’m happy to set up a time to discuss as necessary.

What If I Need Additional Edits in Future Years? Do You Offer Discounts?

Yes. I don’t want you to pay a high upfront fee for “lifetime edits,” so I’ve found the best approach is to see what is necessary in the future and then edit accordingly.

I provide discounted pricing for anyone who is an existing customer – exact prices depend on how much your resume has changed compared to the version I edited, but typically “upgrade” edits would be a 30% discount to the original price.

These “upgrade edits” are applicable if you had one additional internship, a new full-time job, or if something else major has changed on your resume.

Click here to sign up for upgrade edits.

I Want to Order Multiple Services – Can I Get a Discount?

Yes, discounts are available to anyone who orders more than one service:

• Click here to sign up for Cover Letter + Resume Editing and receive a $50 discount.
• Click here to sign up for Cover Letter + Resume Editing + 1 Hour of Coaching and receive a $100 discount.

Do You Offer Discounts If I Purchase Your Services Separately? For Example, If I Pay Full Price for Resume Editing Now, Can I Get the Package Discount If I Choose to Purchase Coaching Later?

Unfortunately, we can’t offer the discount if you purchase services separately. It wouldn’t be fair to the people who pay for the packages upfront.

What If I Have Multiple Versions of My Resume That Are Very Similar? Are These Covered Under One Price?

If you have 2 resumes that are almost the same, I’m happy to edit them under the initial fee.

If they vary significantly and contain different information I could offer 10% off the regular resume editing price of the second resume.

If you want me to edit a second resume, please send through the first and second versions after you’ve signed up for resume editing. Depending on how different the two are, we will let you know if the second resume qualifies for the discount.

“I Wouldn’t Have Minded Paying Much More Even Though I Am in College and Do Not Have Much Money”

“First of all, the Mergers and Inquisitions resume review service is the best money I have ever spent.

It is so good that I would not have minded paying much more even though I am in college and do not have much money. Compared to other services, the resume review’s quality of work and value is in a completely different league.

I work at an executive coaching firm where we charge well over $300/hour to help recently laid off people find jobs in addition to reviewing their resume. This comes out to over $1000 just for a resume review. The Mergers & Inquisitions resume review is just as good or even superior to the executive coaching service for a much lower price.

I consider myself a good writer and my resume was written in clear English with quantified and distinct achievements. I’ve spent well over 100 hours working on it with my friends, colleagues, and even my executive coaching boss giving me critiques.

So why did I need one more person to look over my resume?

All I can say is that I am very glad I did.

I received a line-by-line review pointing things out that I would never have noticed. Moreover, we exchanged multiple e-mails going over questions or concerns I had or how to write something in a smoother language.

Unlike other resume services that are just a one-time edit, he is kind and caring enough to go over your resume again, to make sure all the kinks are found, and to make sure it reads like a professional.

I cannot think of anyone more qualified to help you break into investment banking or whatever finance field you are interested in.

I HIGHLY recommend Mergers and Inquisitions resume review.“

-James, University Student Breaking Into Investment Banking

My resume editing service is a $225 investment.

I admit it, that’s a substantial investment.

But consider for a moment how much money you’re losing by not breaking into investment banking:

• Even as an entry-level Analyst, you’ll earn well over $100,000 in your first year.
• As an Associate, you’ll earn over $200,000.
• Mid-level VPs will earn around $500,000…. or more.
• After you advance to MD, you’re looking at $1 – 2 million per year… minimum.

$225 doesn’t seem like much when the alternative is losing over $100,000 per year.

This service is not an “expense” – it is an investment. An investment into getting the highest-paying jobs available.

But there’s another reason why I’ve set prices this way.

I don’t want just anyone to use my resume editing service. Remember that statistic that less than 1% of those who apply to investment banking jobs actually get in?

If thousands of people suddenly had top-notch resumes, it would be tougher than ever before to land an interview.

So I want only those who are serious about breaking into finance to use my service. Otherwise you lose the big advantage that a superior resume gives you. We care about quality, not quantity!

“You Should Be Charging a Lot More for a Service of This Quality”

“Even though I work in a field where I need to be incredibly detail oriented, you far surpass me.

I only had a chance to adopt half your changes so far, but I’m already seeing a huge difference on my resume.

You should be charging a lot more for a service of this quality.”

-Nathan, Harvard Law (Corporate Lawyer Breaking Into Finance)

30-Day 100% Money-Back Guarantee

I understand you still might not be convinced of my ability to revamp your resume and help you land investment banking interviews.

So I’m offering a 30-day 100% money-back guarantee on my services.

If you’re not satisfied for any reason, simply email me and you’ll get your money back, no questions asked.

Get Noticed, Get Interviews and Get into Investment Banking

If you’re ready to take action and make your dreams into reality, my resume editing service is exactly what you need.

Forget about the “do it yourself” technique or those generic services that have clueless people editing your resumes (Don’t believe me? Just ask them what EBITDA stands for).

With my guarantee of unlimited feedback and multiple revisions, you really can’t go wrong.

And don’t forget about my money-back guarantee – you really can’t go wrong with that.

Stop wasting all your time getting nowhere and start getting noticed and landing investment banking interviews today.

P.S. Still have questions? Anything I didn’t address here?

Feel free to contact me and I’ll address any specific concerns you have.

Don’t get stuck sending your resume out to countless firms with nothing to show for it… you’ve already wasted enough time doing that.

Start getting results today with the Mergers & Inquisitions resume editing service.

“Money Well-Spent!”

“I knew I’d be satisfied with the resume review service even before contacting M&I the first time.

Their review service exceeded my expectation and more! I was very impressed with their attention-to-detail, thorough line-by-line reviews and great suggestions which I would have never thought of if not for them.

I would definitely recommend the M&I resume review service – it was money well spent!

Thank you!”

-Janet, Investment Banker Breaking Into Private Equity