Hi I'm Jenny Rae, welcome to Management Consulted, I'm the Managing Director, and
today I'm back to talk about consulting resume reviews. In particular today I'm
talking about the three types of consulting resume reviews. I'm going to
highlight how your resume might be reviewed if you decide to apply to a
consulting firm. Now the three types that I'm going to highlight are not mutually exclusive,
They're often used in tandem across one particular firm, but some
firms do use different types more than others. However, I'm going to just
highlight, in an example top 10 firm, how these different resume review processes work.
The first type of resume review process is when it's done by a computer,
a computer review. And there are two types of resumes that are usually
considered through the computer review. The first are for highly technical
positions. So, if you're applying for something that has a very specific
technical skill required, then it's often put through a screening process –
a computer will do the filtering to identify how well your skills match up
with the advertised skills that are demanded from the position. The second
types of positions are firm-wide positions. Many of these firms have
multiple global offices and they're interested in people that are interested
across multiple offices. So, rather than just house one office, one HR recruiter,
they'll have a computer generated system screen through a lot of the qualified applicants,
and then pass them off to the relevant offices that will actually be
interviewing you. So that's the first type of review – the computer review.
The second type of review is an HR review. The HR review usually happens for a
couple of different kinds of candidates. The first is if you are an off cycle
hire. So if you're an off cycle hire it's more normal to have an HR recruiter review.
They usually won't pull together an entire team to review a small number
of applications, so the HR or the recruiting individual, instead of just
managing the process, will actually serve as the gatekeeper for you. In addition,
if you're an experienced hire, so if you're applying for a manager, or a partner
position in many of these firms, then an HR or
recruiting individual be the one to coordinate your process.
Oftentimes they'll actually follow up with you to hold a screening interview, before even
putting you into the interview process. And then finally, the third type work for boutique firms.
A lot of boutique firms do not have the resources to pull all
their staff onto a team review, and so a dedicated HR professional will serve the
overall position of performing the gatekeeping role of determining who gets
an interview and who doesn't. The final type of resume review that's done is a
team review. And this is how the majority of slots are usually filled inside a firm.
The team review is held oftentimes on a Friday – and I'm going to go into a
more detail in a future video of exactly how a team review works – but today I'm
just going to talk about the types of individuals that go through a team interview.
Generally there are two things that are required if you're going to go
through a team review. The first is that you're an on cycle hire. So, you're
applying for full-time positions in the fall or the autumn, and for internship
positions in the January, February timeframe. Or, you're the type of person
who is coming from a target school, and actually a lot of times it's the
intersection of the two of those that go through a team review. So you're both
applying from a target school where you have a specific portal that you're going
through, as well as applying on cycle. Those are the three types of reviews –
computer reviews, HR reviews, and team reviews. Across the board of usually
interview positions, about 10% of them would be filled in a computer review,
about 20% would be filled through an HR review, and about 70% would be filled in
a team review. That just demonstrates the firm's focus on their emphasis schools,
the target schools that they go for. And in future videos I'll be excited to
highlight more details about how to construct a resume that will really get
their attention during the review. In the meantime feel free to check us out at
managementconsulted.com – where we have lots of articles and
resources about consulting resumes.