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An anonymised example for a penultimate-year student targeting Investment Banking at Bulge Bracket level. Your own report is generated from your actual CV text — every issue, rewrite, and keyword is specific to you.
Sample CV Score
Scored for Investment Banking · Bulge Bracket
Section Scores
Weighted breakdownMetrics & Quantification
25% of overall score
Bullet Point Quality
20% of overall score
Role-fit Alignment
20% of overall score
Structure & Formatting
15% of overall score
Education Section
10% of overall score
Skills & Keywords
10% of overall score
Top 3 Issues
Highest-impact problemsQuantification is your single biggest gap: 7 of 11 bullets carry no number. Adding deal sizes, percentages, and outcomes would lift both your Metrics and Bullet Quality scores in one pass.
Your CV lacks IB transaction vocabulary (DCF, LBO, comparable companies, enterprise value). It reads as generally finance-interested rather than desk-ready — the most common reason strong students get filtered.
Your skills section is generic ("Microsoft Office") and lists no finance tools or certifications, which weakens you against the ATS and the human reviewer alike.
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3 bullet rewrites · 17 missing keywords · 6 action items
Full Section Breakdown
Your spring week bullet "Shadowed the M&A team and learned about live deals" contains no metric and no outcome — it tells a recruiter what happened to you, not what you produced.
7 of your 11 experience bullets contain no number. At bulge bracket level, an unquantified bullet is treated as an unverifiable claim and skimmed past.
Where you do quantify ("increased society membership"), the figure is missing — "increased" without a percentage or absolute number reads as vague rather than impressive.
Four bullets open with weak verbs — "Helped", "Was responsible for", "Involved in", "Assisted". These signal proximity to work rather than ownership of it.
Your lead banking-experience bullet runs to four lines. Anything over two lines dilutes impact and signals an inability to prioritise — itself a red flag for the role.
Several bullets describe tasks ("attended meetings", "took notes") with no discernible outcome. Every bullet should answer "so what?".
Your CV reads as "interested in finance" rather than "ready for an IB desk" — it lacks the transaction vocabulary recruiters scan for in the first pass.
No evidence of technical modelling beyond a single mention of "Excel". For IB, recruiters expect explicit signals of DCF, LBO, or comparable companies work.
Strong single-page layout with correct student section order (Education → Experience → Extracurriculars → Skills).
Date formatting is inconsistent — "June 2024" in one role and "07/2024" in another. Standardise to one format, right-aligned.
Degree, university, and predicted classification are all clearly stated — good.
A-level results are present but tucked at the bottom in a smaller font; at this stage they are a genuine differentiator and deserve a clear line.
No relevant modules listed. For a quantitatively-screened role, naming finance/econometrics modules adds a useful signal.
Skills section lists "Microsoft Office" — this tells an ATS nothing. Replace with specific, scannable competencies.
No finance-specific tools or certifications listed (Bloomberg, BMC, CFA Level I). These are standard differentiators for bulge bracket applicants.
Bullet Rewrites
Your weakest bullets, rewritten in the voice a Goldman Sachs or Citadel recruiter expects.
Before
Shadowed the M&A team and learned about live deals.
After
Supported a 4-person M&A team on a live £210m mid-market disposal; built the comparable companies set (11 peers) and maintained the data room index across a 6-week process.
Before
Helped increase the finance society membership through marketing.
After
Grew finance society membership 38% (310 → 428) in one term by launching a weekly markets newsletter and 3 alumni speaker events.
Before
Was responsible for analysing companies in the technology sector for a stock pitch.
After
Valued 3 listed software companies via DCF and trading comps for a society stock pitch; recommended a long on the most undervalued name, which returned 11% over the following term.
Missing Keywords — Investment Banking
These terms appear in successful Bulge Bracket CVs for this role but are absent from yours. Add them naturally — not as a list, but woven into experience bullets.
Ranked Action Plan
Ordered by interview impact. Priority 1 makes the biggest difference — do it first.
Add a quantified outcome to every experience bullet — deal size, %, headcount, ranking, or revenue impact.
Directly addresses your lowest-scoring section (Metrics, 54) and is the fastest route to a higher overall score.
Rewrite the four weak-verb bullets to lead with strong verbs (modelled, valued, built, pitched, executed).
Recruiters scan opening verbs first; strong verbs signal ownership and lift your Bullet Quality score.
Weave IB transaction language (DCF, comparable companies, enterprise value) naturally into your modelling and pitch bullets.
Closes the role-fit keyword gap and gets you past ATS relevance scoring.
Replace "Microsoft Office" with specific tools: Excel (financial modelling, VBA), PowerPoint (pitchbooks), Bloomberg.
Improves ATS keyword match and signals genuine technical readiness.
Add Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) — a low-cost certificate you can complete in ~10 hours.
A concrete, verifiable signal of commitment that very few applicants bother to obtain.
Trim your four-line banking bullet to two lines and standardise all dates to one right-aligned format.
Tightens presentation and removes the small inconsistencies that undermine an otherwise strong layout.
Benchmark — Bulge Bracket
What separates you from the shortlist
A successful bulge bracket IB applicant at your stage typically presents the same calibre of experience you already have — but every bullet is quantified, written in transaction language, and tied to a clear outcome. You are not missing experience; you are under-selling it. Close the quantification and keyword gaps and this CV moves from "competitive" to "interview-ready".
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