Am I Ready for Consulting? Rising Junior, Target Uni, Corporate Experience
I just finished my first corporate internship in a F500 company, have three president roles on campus at an Ivy, and a 3.7. Last time I posted my resume it got torn apart, primarily for formatting reasons. I used the youtube series Mergers and Inquisitions to reformat. I think the formatting is pretty solid, I'm more concerned with the content: am I selling my experience as well as I could? Particularly my most recent corporate role?
I'm shooting for management consulting OCR this Fall. I have some connections with a few firms and am planning to prep the crap out of the case interview this Fall. I'm most concerned about getting interviews.
Your feedback is appreciated!
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You can do way better.
Haven't got time to get into it right now so I'll largely leave that to others, but two things that come to mind immediately:
1) Formatting still looks bad - those bullets separating activities etc look pretty bad, just use commas like everybody else. Also, keeping in mind the length of time people look at a resume, no-one is going to read that whole block of activities - hell, I'm not even evaluating resumes for recruiting purposes and I didn't take a good look. Either condense them or find another way to present them.
2) Think carefully about your goals and what you've done, and what you want to show - you have 1 short point about an OW case comp at the bottom. Especially since you came first place, make that a thing of prominence in your resume! You want consulting interviews, so throw that up and give it its own entry (esp. since you don't have much work exp. listed) and elaborate on it.
Your school, GPA, and activities (consulting case comp awards, F500 internship etc) should place you in good standing for consulting OCR, esp. if you network well and are sociable.
Thanks for the feedback.
The activities section is tough because I do or have done quite a few things in the last two years that I'd be comfortable speaking to in an interview (debate, policy research) that don't warrant an experience section. I want to keep the activities I've done, but if I'm losing interest through the density, is it worth cutting out the less relevant information (based on the destination of the resume).
I did commas before, but it looked like a giant paragraph. The bullets break up the activities visually IMO. But I'll consider changing them.
Great feedback on the OW case bit. I don't want to put it in the experience section, because all the other experiences were months or longer, how do you recommend calling it out? Should I leave it in the awards section in the bottom, but add a line or two detailing the experience? Or do I bring it up higher in the resume, if so, how do you think I could add it to a higher section without renaming everything.
Again, appreciate the feedback.
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