Hi WSO,
I've made a handful of newer resumes now that I have 1.5 years of working experience under my belt and may be interested in making a jump around the 2 year mark, and I'm hoping you can weigh in on the best way to format my experience.
My initial thought was to list the work performed by client. I have 6-7 major engagements over my time here and can pick and choose which to include based on the roles for which I am applying. In the private sector, this format would probably be a terrible idea for a number of client confidentiality reasons, but because I work in government consulting the vast majority of my projects/reports/recommendations are public information and can already be found through a Google search or FOIA request.
So, rather than having a single category with 15-20 lines addressing several projects, I was thinking of arranging it by client such as:
1. State
a. Description of my work
2. Government entity
a. Description of my work
3. State
a. Description of my work
Does explicitly naming clients have any shortfalls that I am not seeing right now? It seems acceptable to me because all work is already highly visible. Thank you in advance for your thoughts!
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Bonks
Got pushed to page 3.. bumping this. Please help!
I would not explicitly name the clients if I were you unless you have explicit permission from those you worked with. Even then, consultants typically have a lot of secrecy around who they worked for and to see another consultant list out clients may raise an eyebrow. Maybe talk your company about their policies? (with the amount of movement among consultants I would not expect them to start looking at you negatively).
The way I approached it on my resume was thus: I only had two consulting projects through my MBA program and I listed the companies after I had permission. Since I wasn't a former consultant, I felt it was necessary to name who I worked with to give it some power. I kept the resume line somewhat vague in terms of the specific issues I addressed (to protect the project company) but detailed enough to showcase my contributions.
Your method for your resume seems appropriate. One problem with it may be that if your work is all very similar your listings may get redundant. Another approach I've seen that has worked well for peers with lots of different projects within the same job is:
Capability Work
ex (off the cuff examples, so excuse the unpolished nature): Leadership 1. Promoted to team leader ahead of peers and led a group of six consultants and industry peers through two projects from start to completion. 2. Successfully proposed and chartered the creation new team within company X for the development of... 3. Chaired the company's committee for the outreach to new government clients. Directed and moderated weekly meetings that resulted in...
This way you highlight 3-4 specific skills you want the resume to highlight and you can pick and choose from all of your experiences.
Consulting - How to list projects? (Originally Posted: 06/15/2016)
Hello fellow monkeys,
Just a quick question that has bugged me through the years:
I have always been told to list the industry, relative size of the company, and the type of project. A big project at Walmart would be "Business Model Transformation at a Large Consumer Goods and Services Company" and then you would go into your specific duties within the project as you would for any other resume.
It’s a lot longer (I know) but I have found that most companies understand and appreciate the commitment to confidentiality (even though it takes all of 2 minutes to figure it out) . You can look up the industry on google finance.
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Bump.
Right now all I have on Linkedin is for example: "Business Transformation of major UK Healthcare specialist". Unsure of how much detail one can go into without breaking any kind of confidentiality.
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