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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Consulting & Strategy

These are the 13 terms our scorer checks a Consulting & Strategy resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • market analysis
  • business case
  • financial modelling
  • due diligence
  • stakeholder management
  • operating model
  • benchmarking
  • growth strategy
  • transformation
  • client engagement
  • workstream
  • executive
  • hypothesis

The eight questions for Consulting & Strategy

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many engagements have you delivered, and over what duration?
  2. 2.What is the size of the largest client you have worked with?
  3. 3.What recommendation of yours was implemented, and what did it deliver?
  4. 4.How many people have you led on an engagement?
  5. 5.What value have you identified or unlocked for a client?
  6. 6.Which sectors and functions have you worked across?
  7. 7.How many client workshops or steering committees have you run?
  8. 8.What analysis do you personally build, and in what?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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