Interested in Management Consulting-Be Brutal

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I like the big font name at top. I don’t think most people are bold enough with the names.

I’ve heard mixed things about the objective/professional summary. I know it was big in the 90’s and before and fell out of fashion. Yet this week I had a mock interview with an employer at my school’s career services that said he’s been seeing it more recently. Perhaps if you want to keep it, add something a bit more specific about a passion for consulting or working to solve an organization’s puzzles. Some BS like that especially since a BA in History doesn’t scream “consulting!”

Education:

Weird spacing in the 2 activities line for education. Fix that.

Feel free to add some quantitative or business courses to show your numbers skills (although math SAT scores is good start, but that’s from 5 years ago)

Get rid of HS and put SATs under college.

Work:

You’re obviously grinding it out in the internships, very impressive.

Agree with the other person that it should be in bullets.

I’d say your work experience descriptions are average. Would like to see them more results orientated of what you actually added to the organization than just descriptions of what you did (even though it's well-written).

This could be tough to decide, but take out 1 or 2 of the employments you had. I’d say remove Bloomberg for Mayor and the NYC-TV one. One is a BS (I’ve done plenty of political interning – I know how it is) and the other from over 6 years ago.

Skills and Interests:

Tough to read even with the bolding. It looks like a big block of text.

Add “Self-employed, speechwriter” to your job and move all your writing stuff up there. That’s the kind of thing (writing for an Oscar-nominated actor) will make you stand out in a pile of resumes.

As for computer skills, some would say to take out all the ‘basic’ stuff that they expect someone who as interned for Bloomberg for two summers and goes to a top 3 LAC to know. This would include all the Office software and Windows/Mac. They’d also say to take out the image and video editing stuff. It’s great to know, but adding that in sends a mixed message to recruiters. Do you want to go into consulting or video editing?

The way I see it is that a resume should be a one-page advertisement for you. It includes all your top sills and most relevant and impactful experiences. So if I see a resume with MS Word, which means there is nothing better they could use that space on the paper for. I think that with your work experience you could find something that stands out more than two lines of MS Office and non-relevant software.

Best of luck, and I apologizes if I had spelling or grammar errors. It's 4:30am and I'm reviewing random resumes. God save me.