I'm looking for advice on this resume. This resume has helped me land final round interviews without referrals at BCG, McKinsey, Google, Meta, and my role at Capital One, so it has something going for it. So I'm not looking to tear down and rebuild from the ground up, even if I know it's not everyone's cup of tea. I'm focusing on landing a sustainability consulting role in the next year, and I'm curious how I can improve this resume with the experiences I have. Thanks!

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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.

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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

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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.

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OP I would recommend you Google “MBA resume book” for examples of how real consultants do this

cut it down

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