Hi Consultants! Would you please give some critique on Resume?? I'm PhD candidate and want to enter management Consulting firms in the US like MBB, B4, T2, and life science boutique firms. If you don't offer me the Interview, what should improve more to get it? I want to start networking and I might ask the referral in the future. My top3 are Seattle, SF, NY offices.

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The CV is well written and impressive, but refelecting your current career path (research), which is not what you want to do now (corporate). So you need to bridge that gap, and gain experience in the business world. Consultancies are unlikely to hire people based on their research abilities/experience alone (although that is a plus, don’t get me wrong). Doing an internship, or even starting at a (really any) brand name company is probably a necessary step in between; alternatively an MBA could also do the trick.

Got your point. Thanks for the feedback. I can have some changes by the time for application. Out of US is not an option as of now.

Looks good to me!

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Fellow PhD here. You don’t have a lot of business experience and corporate (real world) experience. I would do a couple of internships at recognized companies in your field. If not possible, then take on pro bono consulting projects with your university’s consulting clubs and/or join startup incubators help them with pitch materials/market research.

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great insight, Principal2. Thank you all of you mentioning entrepreneurial experience. I will address this point by adding more probono consulting works

Looks a bit bland to me, depends where you’re applying though.

I’d try to draw the reader to the points of interest eg work exp and software languages if you’re trying to go for a technical role

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I'd go generalist role first

Apply to Tokyo and Seoul MBB as well

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I thought about it, but may not since firms only allow to list 3 places..

Your experience looks quite impressive. You should feel good about that. Your field is not my area of expertise though

My PoV anyway... You have metrics and measurables in there. That's good. It is one page. Also good.

What key buzzwords or skills would you want involved in your job? Put 4 or 5 of those across the top. I.e. for a finance/business intelligence person it would look like this:

Business Storyteller | Financial Modeling | SQL | Python | CFA

or something like that...

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Guarantee PWC1 does this on their LinkedIn and believes their own BS

I would go deeper in a few roles to highlight the challenge and impact to tell a story, right now reads a bit like a laundry list. Expand recent experience and trim down early 2010s, those don’t matter much.

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Sure, improve bit more on recent work!

I might combine the wk experience and extracurricular sections into 1 since they both highlight wk skills that are valuable

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I take your advice. Thanks!

You should post on the life science consulting bowl! Also maybe add a summary up top on what you’re looking for in the industry and how your experience applies to it

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That’s great! I could recommend other firms like clearview or LEK considering you have a phd… even BCG mckinsey bain etc but I don’t think they have a life science focused practice

How can I edit my post? My phone posting cannot tag @firms

You don't need to do this, it's usually annoying.

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Your resume looks great! Id expand more on your work experience (go into the nitty gritty details). Just my opinion, but i never really follow the one page resume rule. Some people like it, however, ive been fine with 2 pages

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