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I was just laid off from Smith Barney - 'last person hired, first person fired' gig.
C'est la vie. Figure this old page needs some tweeking though, please help!
Sorry to hear about your employment situation. Be sure to send this link around to others in financial services requesting feedback and asking for advice. Here are my comments: First make sure to update your computer skills section. I suggest just having one category for computer skills not hardware and software. Given you worked at Smith Barney as did I as an intern, you should have some experience with Bloomberg, Reuters or other financial specific software--make sure to put that down. Regarding your bullet language, I suggest you have more bullets for your Smith Barney experience and fewer as you go down. That will show employers visual progress and make it clear that your recent work experience is more important to your career than your work as a lifeguard. Consider 5-6 bullets for Smith Barney (detailing your achievements with numerical values!) and 1-2 bullets for your oldest experience. Additionally, you might want to remove some of the less impressive work experience such as lifeguard, simply because it's not relevant any more. Best of luck.