Industry to Consulting transition resume (healthcare), pre-MBA, 5-6yrs. experience
Hello all,
http://www.razume.com/documents/24745
This resume has been through a couple of edits and is the product of feedback from folks currently in the healthcare consulting industry, most of them at big firms. Despite that, they are my friends and I fear they have been soft on me. I'm feeding it to the WSO lions for heartfelt feedback. Please don't hesitate to be harsh (doubt that will be a problem after reviewing some recent posts), any feedback is good feedback.
Basic background on my job search progress: I am 5-6 years out of college (BA in Economics), spent the bulk of this time building a startup operation in healthcare services. I want to go back to school for an MBA in 2-4 years but feel strongly that I need consulting experience - both for personal/professional growth as well as branding for candidacy at a top-10 MBA program.
Thanks for your feedback.
-D
If you are in the U.S. then your resume needs to be one page, provided you are not C-level or slightly lower. And even though you seem to have a lot of responsibility, 5-6 years of experience is still young enough that it needs to be cut down to one page and one page only, at least for U.S. recruiting.
Thank you sir! Good feedback. I am in the US (NYC). Interesting feedback since my first version was cut down to one page but a couple people asked me to spill over to a second page to expand on career progression at current position (something that was lacking) and expand on Undergrad achievements since I am sans-MBA. Any thoughts on that? (FYI these folks are senior consultant/managers at Deloitte and Booz & co. - not my next door neighbors)
As for M Office - after receiving several rounds of feedback (some asking to expand on Office if I was to keep it) I'm definitely going to remove it. The WSO crowd seems to be pretty against that and I tend to agree.
Anything else you could spot that needed refinement? I want to tailor this to to MBB crowd.
Also, take off Word, Powerpoint, and Excel from your "Skills" section. Any person in the working world for more than a year or two can use these, and most use them a lot even before graduating college.
I would bump this down to one page as well., if possible. Clearly the focus here is on your most recent work experience, not on your two previous jobs, so I would cut those down to one line per bullet (currently you have two lines per).
I don't think you need to break your college experience/accomplishments down by theme (eg: Ranking, Awards and Achievements, etc.)
You're language experience could all be on one line. I think overall there is too much white space here to justify a two-page resume. You can be more economical with your formatting and with language to a certain extent and have it fit on one. With some minor changes, you should be able to make it to the Boom Boom Schroon Room.
By the way, I am curious. What is the Boom Boom Schroon Room? Is this an unspoken MBB term I should be aware of?
I bet you could combine the dean's list and graduating early lines. Also I imagine a teaching assistant position you did 8 years ago in college is not something worth including on a resume, same with the other internships you included.
I'm surprised the Deloitte and Booz people told you that. Do they work or did they live outside the U.S.?
Thanks for your response. They both work and live in DC. As far as I know they have no F/T international experience or exposure either. I agree with your feedback on TA & Internships. I did leave them on the updated 1-page version below, so aside from that how do you feel about the updated version? I don't feel great about cutting down previous 2 jobs to 2 lines each but that's all that will fit.
http://www.razume.com/documents/24751
I'd be interested to hear other feedback on this guy's resume. He's got an interesting background, and I'm guessing he could rock it as a consultant. Getting him in the door is the challenge here...
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