Copy This Investment Banker Resume Template to Get Into KKR (Or At Least, Something Almost as Good)

We’re going to continue our series on investment banking resume templates and go through how you should write about investment banking experience in this article.

You can actually use a similar template for anything in finance, whether you worked on the sell-side or buy-side.

But you can’t use it for everything.

Who Should Use This (or a Similar) Template:

How to Prepare for Your Investment Banking Summer Internship (If You Haven’t Already Started)

Everyone already knows that to properly prepare for your investment banking summer internship, you need to memorize every single Excel and PowerPoint shortcut key, know your models as well as you know your bottles, and read the Wall Street Journal cover-to-cover each day.

Then there’s the matter of training yourself to sit motionless in front of a computer for 28 hours straight, and reading Monkey Business, Liar’s Poker, and When Genius Failed 3 times each.

If you’re reading this site and you have an upcoming summer internship, you’ve probably done all that already.

But what else can you do to maximize your chances of getting a return offer?

10 Investment Banking Internship “Don’t”‘s: How Not To Screw Up

I’ve given some internship tips in the form of a summer intern success guide and an avid reader gave some tips from his firsthand experience, but it’s often easier to give advice on what not to do (as with fashion).

Without further ado, here are the top 10 summer intern gaffs I’ve observed, both at my office and from friends’ stories.

This list applies to both Summer Analysts and Summer Associates – your role is the same, except Associates will get a bit more responsibility.