Ultimately every employer wants to know the answer to a simple question. Will you do the job I hire you for well?

Answering that question before you’ve been hired is the biggest trump card you have.

For the finance industry, however, this principle of value creation is hardly given an opportunity.

The recruiting process in the financial industry is broken.

Candidates are selected based on factors that do not indicate whether they will perform well on the job.

Instead, factors like GPA, which is often completely dependent on your professor and what he decides to include in the syllabus, or school prestige, which speak to your financial status more than anything, are looked upon as determining factors.

Applicants that are applying for positions at investment banks may only get 10 seconds or less spent reviewing their resume.

What can be done to fix this?

Well, showing your work, in this instance how you would invest if you were going to be hired as an investment banker is a great place to start