My resume for a gap-year in commodity trading
I'm a french student with little experience in the commodity field and as my gap year starts in a few months I'm targeting commodity trading firms. I'm highly interested in physical trading but I'm also interested in paper trading. If I get internship(s) in physical trading do you think it could shut me some doors ? There are plenty of subjects here for the other way (equity/deritatives -> physical) but not for physical to capital markets.
I know I'll have to cast a wide net but I'm still reluctant to aim BB/MM capital market desks because I don't have relevant experience and come from a semi/non-target.
Thanks for your time.
PS: I have a third diploma in International Trade (two years undergraduate after high school). It's quite the same diploma as the High National Diploma in UK. Should I put it on my resume ?
Nobody ?
looks like you got sick of working on your CV as it tapers out in the bottom 3rd of the page (zoom out on the doc and you'll see what i mean)
some of your dot points make it obvious that english is not your native language, i.e. your 1st point under trading is 3 sentences(?) but appear to be different tasks. no idea what 1st point under consulting experience means, did you conduct/delegate/present the research?
your 3rd experience is a college thing? it looks a pretty half assed attempt at describing what you did - makes it seem like the experience was half assed as well
you have the heading interests but no interests below it
Thanks a lot for the help.
I lightened experiences which were the less relevant for a recruiter otherwise it wouldn't fit on 1 page.You are right my first point below trading is a summary. Then I detailed 2 interesting missions I did. Does it really look weird ?
Industry or market research is an expression : "Industry or market research is the acquisition of corporate intelligence on a broad range of issues including...". I know it sounds bad in the sentence so I should change it and yes I did research/delegate/present it to my MD.
I'll develop my the two next experience but not sure it'll fit.
I appreciate.
Physical trading experience is as precious as it can get. Each of the commodities has its unique nature and if you can get into one of those big boys such as Cargill, Glencore, BP, and Louis Dreyfus (perfect for a French like you), please do not ever let this opportunity slip. You probably don't know that with the help of the Volcker rule, the big commodity boys are actually getting much more pricing power (especially energy) than ever before because big banks were either shutting down or downsizing their commodities business. Take the best possible chance and go from there.
Thanks for the information. Yes those shops are definitely the place to be. I'm going to start cold emailing tomorrow from my alumni base and email lurking on a worldwide scale... Hope to find something. I'm so delighted to have finally found my way for my career.
Do energy scheduling and trading in the long run require engineering background ? Anyway I'll see how it works in details if I land something
Just do a lot of digging into the specific commodities you're interested in before you start cold calling/emailing. You can't just go in and send your CV saying you want to do this and that. You want to be much more prepared than that. With an engineering background you will probably open a few doors in energy but I really don't know for sure. Just try to learn a few commodities first and you need to know each shop has its forte, for example, Cargill is in ags (agriculture), and Glencore is bigger in energy etc. Then you should probably say I'm interested in commodities and this is what I know and I'd like to have a chance to be at your service to do all the donkey work just to see the true colours. Something like that.
I opened up because commodities trading is really much more difficult than it seems. Best of luck dude. Let me know how it goes.
Thanks a lot.
I'll keep you informed through this thread. Thanks for the advice
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