Roast my CV - Penultimate year student applying for MBB & Tier 2 Consultancies. Any guidance is appreciated!!
This is my current draft, but I'm aware that there are people in this subreddit who have a lot of experience running through CVs and was hoping they could drop any little bits of advice they might have.
Thanks for taking the time to read, be as harsh as possible!!
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Good CV. You have solid leadership and entrepreneurial experience, the only potential weakness I see is your university. My bias is you have good soft skills, your interviewers will focus on gauging how sharp/ intellectual you are.
Do you have any academic achievements? E.g. if you won any academic prizes/ essay competitions etc? No worries if not but would help on the last point.
For your CV would do 3 things: 1) Some of your bullet structure annoys me because they don’t tell a cohesive story. E.g. 10k marketing budget means little without an understanding of what the measured impact was. I then see it mentioned in the previous bullet for some reason. Think about how you’d frame the narrative of each of your experiences and then write your bullets in the same logical way. 2) Within each of your bullet points, I’d be consistent in sentence structure. A good way to do it is ‘Achieved this impact by doing XX’. I do like the parallelisms at the start of your bullets though - keep this. 3) Your formatting for dates is off. Make sure they’re aligned.
Also kill project management from skills and your waitress job. Wtf is advanced language in courses - if relevant spell it out better.
Thanks for the feedback! I thought it might be useful as a signal that I can work as a part of a team from a lower point in the team hierarchy. Most of my experience in these roles seems to be higher in the management ladder; is this incorrect intuition? Will firms actually value this 'diversity'?
In almost every job, it is implicit that you were good at the basics in order to become more senior.
Thanks for the valuable feedback, I'm currently tweaking it as I type this!! Some context: I didn't perform very well in my first year (Weighted 0% of total grade), due to being busy with extra curriculars. Are there any actions I can take in these next few months to build my CV and indicate greater 'intellectual achievement'?
If it flags as an issue, you may need to just get a high First, win some academic prize and then reapply the year after. A First at a semi-target is probably not enough to quell doubts at a CV screen.
If you get an interview, it all hinges on whether you come across as sharp. This is intrinsic and isn’t really something you can prepare for.
- remove full stops at the end of your bullet points to make them consistent
- by changing the spacing of the bullet points from the left margin, you can reduce the overall size of your document and potentially add new bullet points
- for your gcse you put your highest grade first, do that for a levels too
- for university maybe you can put the grades you got on certain modules
- in general, your bullet points should not start on a second line without filling it out, it wastes space for other useful information you could add in. this problem might be solved with the second bullet point i mentioned in this comment
- the date on beginner's volleyball founder is badly formatted
- the dashes you use within dates on the right are inconsistent
- in general for the approach to your bullet points, you should put yourself in the cv examiners shoes and ask so what. what skills has he/she developed during this experience
- beef up your skills section
- second point for mckinsey is weak.
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