What should my resume look like as I consider exits from consulting? Consulting is my first full time job, so I still have several internships on the page. My full time experience is going to be most relevant to recruiters, but I’ve also heard it would be bad to have more than 4-5 lines (max) under any given role. Finally, I’m not sure how to balance the line between broad experience and specific case experience—should each bullet be a different case?

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Be prepared to get 10 different answers from different people.
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Was in a similar boat I did the layout below for my work experience

Full time row:

Project 1
- 3 bullets
Project 2
- 3 bullets
Project 3
- bullets

Internship 1
- 3 bullets

Internship 2
- 3 bullets

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^Agreed, I've done 18 projects at LEK in 18 months and I just put my top 3 which were interesting, relevant to the company I'm applying to, and I could speak about in depth

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How long have you been working full time? I think that will effect how much you want to put there too

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I’d keep big cases as their own bullets. Group all DDs into 1-2 bullets by specifying across which industries and what you did, then finally just talk about other general stuff like CD, personal development, and firm extracurriculars

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Same boat here. I like the layout that A1 had

For our type of work with <2 yrs experience it’s very common to not have 1-2 marquee projects (i.e., if you did a bunch of DD). I’d recommend something like this:

LEK
- tagline that touches on sector focus, other office contributions, case mix, # of cases, # of industries, etc over several lines on the paper

Case 1
* 3 bullets
Case 2
* 3 bullets
Case 3
* 2-3 bullets
Case 4
* 2-3 bullets

I would exclude internships unless particularly relevant. Make it clear to HH’s / recruiters that you are working with across industries that you have broad industry experience, and I would have a case bank of cases with 2-3 bullet experiences listed that you can cut and paste depending on the opportunity you’re applying for. That way you’re highlighting the most relevant cases, but also alluding to the fact that these are only a couple of your many cases.

Yeah, market size, estimated growth, company rev/EBITDA, etc all good options. Don’t think I had one in every line, but most

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Where did you exit to?

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