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I’ll echo others - it’s too dense, and you graduated very recently, you do not need more than 1 page. I always tell people about the gimmicky (but helpful!) one page resume for Elon Musk. https://resumegenius.com/blog/resume-help/elon-musk-resume
He’s done a lot more than most (if not everyone) in this bowl, and it can still be condensed to 1 page.
I’d also look at including some actual metrics in your resume. So you delivered campaigns - to what end? What were some of the impressive stats? Did you have X% of new leads? I’d think about having some type of data point for most bullet points in your resume.
And finally, your education is way too wordy and honestly not impressive enough to have that much detail. Your GPA is fine - but not worth having on your resume. Your extracurriculars are taking up too much space.
I’d really focus on condensing the content and evaluating what hiring managers want to see. Your resume might get you through the ATS system, but if I were hiring you for any job that would require someone to be concise or clear in their communication, this resume doesn’t give me the best first impression.
This template isn’t great for traditional business fields (consulting and banking), but the lack of words made me breathe a huge sigh of relief. Thank you for cutting it back
As a hiring manager, let me give you the perspective from my most recent hiring process.
For my most recent position, I received about 500+ resumes that I needed to go over one by one. I had to narrow that number down to ~15 to pass to recruiter phone screen. This was on top of my existing workload with a short-staffed team (hence hiring for someone).
I spent about <10 seconds per resume. I look for the right position title and/or right company names. If I found those, I would dig more into the bullet points. If not, it's an automatic pass.
That means if I see an unreadable resume, best case scenario is that I would still spend time to look for key words. Worst case (aka, I've reviewed 100+ resumes so far) is I would just pass this resume.
Chief
Man, you must be getting interviews in spite of this somehow
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SM2 —that's helpful, thank you.
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Quick glance. It’s a lot of words. I actually stopped reading because of it. Then I noticed basic things like proofread, etc.
So given that you’ve gotten to final round awesome. But this should be a page max. You’re only 6 years of experience
Lol. Stopped reading so definitely not getting the whole story of this kid.
Chief
🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐my eyes burn
Enthusiast
OP every single person in here telling you it’s too long and half of it is not relevant to an esg consulting position. I’ve worked for 13 years and my resume is 1 page long.
I could care less about your digital marketing, piano competitions, and photography during the summers in college when hiring you for an ESG position. Seriously you have 3 full sections on their about photography. What are you going to be photographing as a consultant
The LinkedIn is also far too packed. Still no coherent journey across the items
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You graduated in 2020. I’ve been working for 24 years and my resume is two pages and has nowhere near that many words.
Edit: Also, it seems a bit suspect that you landed final round interviews with BCG, McKinsey, Meta, and Google but ended up at Cap One. 🤔
There is no way this resume got you an interview at McK. I am guessing you got a screen call by recruiter. If I saw this resume in one of my interviews and you didn’t blow my socks off with your PEI and case, I would have some serious feedback to the recruiter about screening. Non-target school, mediocre GPA, no relevant experience… and an impossible to read resume
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I didn't even read it because it's an aggressive number of words. Literally no one is going to parse through that dense document. Please completely rethink your approach.
Chief
A1 I'm checking vmock out now, thanks!
Lmao 3.2 from American University + two page resume = right in the trash
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I suppose there is theoretical case of being from a Chinese family, spoke French in a French speaking country from kindergarten, learned English as first language in school and use it at work. And maybe German as second language. There is a slight chance you can actually speak all 4 languages well enough at the age of 18 before getting into university.
Too many words. Didn’t want to read. Also if you’re landing the interviews I don’t think resume is the problem.
Not all consultants get paid by the page. And a lot of times the client wants complex analysis but explained simply.
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Bruh, it's insanely dense. However, if this exact resume got your final interviews at all those firms, I'd worry more about interview prep, clearly getting into the pipeline isn't the issue.
Chief
You put vaccinated on your resume?
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Oh a very interesting trick!
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You really should simplify it. The resume should be an outline that provides you an opportunity to tell the full story in person. I’ve hired senior people but not in consulting, so maybe I’m not the best to comment, but I would roll my eyes at something this detailed.
Chief
How would you recommend outlining that story when someone is more of a generalist with a wide breadth of experience, or would you recommend narrowing that story to the experiences that are relevant to the position itself, and excluding the other experiences?
You got interviews at meta or a recruiter screener?
You talk to the hiring manager before your full loop so it sounds like you did enough to get in the door likely with hitting all the key words but your resume is way too long and doesn’t seem like a lot of it is relevant
If you are getting calls with this format, something is different from others. Do not change it.
Hi, I’m sorry, I agree with everyone here. I interview a lot of people. Resumes are important for a variety of reasons:
1) I can determine how well the applicant can organize their thoughts into words (can they write an email?)
2) I can determine how the applicant prioritizes and get a sneak peak into time management (can they see what’s important big picture?)
3) I can determine how detail-oriented the applicant is (are there typos?)
4) I can make a call regarding their judgement. Did they include extraneous information? (That’s a knock against them)
Note: if an applicant gives me any resume that is more than one page, it better have a LOT of damn good relevant experience. If not, they come in fighting the current, unfortunately.
If I had two candidates that I liked equally, and one had this resume, the job is definitely going to the other applicant.
You seem like a great candidate, but your resume needs to contain 25% the content it currently has. To restate—you need to remove 75% of this. Create white space, include only high-level overview. The rest should be discussed in the first round of interviews.
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Definitely remove the “Other experience available upon request” line. Completely unnecessary. I’d also remove the summary, but some people like it so I’ll leave that up for debate
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The only thing that resume is telling me is that you lack skills of synthesis. You need to make choice, decide what’s relevant and what isn’t otherwise it also means you don’t really understand the job you’re applying for because you’re actually unable to pick what’s useful information to recruiters. One page max, it needs to be readable in 3-5 mins max
Holy cow. As a hiring manager I'd take one look at that resume upon opening and close it just as fast. It's a wall of text that requires far too much effort for me to read. It demonstrates you don't know how to self edit or analyze the most relevant experience and skills for the positions you're applying for. Your background is also all over the place and chaotic - I have no idea what you want to be doing, and it seems you can't focus on just one thing at a time.
Consolidate some of those bullets, and don't repeat any achievements. Roll all of your internships into one subhead at the bottom of experience. Focus on creating more white space.
A resume is not the same as a CV. You are not required to list all moments in time on a resume. Save that for the application you have to fill out later. It's fine if you have gaps, and these days it's completely normal.
The question on everyone’s mind. Can you use xlookup?
You are ready. Shorten, kill buzz words, and focus on what you did not.