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How to write a Consulting CV

The conventions below are the ones this field actually uses. They are what the builder applies when you pick Consulting / Strategy, and what the rating checks a finished CV against.

What it must contain

Leave any of these out and the CV reads as incomplete to someone who hires in this field:

  • Work experience — One line per engagement: client type, problem, result. Firms read for structure.
  • Education — Consulting screens hard on academics. Keep scores and percentile in.

The order to put them in

Order is not cosmetic. What sits at the top is what gets read before someone decides whether to keep reading.

  1. Professional summary
  2. Work experience
  3. Education
  4. Skills
  5. Achievements
  6. Languages
  7. Certifications

What to put numbers on

The single most common reason a CV in this field reads as weak is that nothing in it is measured. These are the figures that mean something here:

cost saving · revenue uplift · engagement length · team size · client size

Verbs that carry weight

Openers like “responsible for” and “worked on” describe a job description rather than a person. In this field these do the work instead:

Advised · Diagnosed · Restructured · Modelled · Recommended · Delivered

Length

One page is the norm here.

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