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Advertising consultant resume examples from 2026

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write an advertising consultant resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in advertising consultant-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

These tips will help you demonstrate why you are the perfect fit for the advertising consultant position.

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List the right project manager skills

Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. Look to the job listing. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description. Take note of the skills listed for the job.
  2. Put all relevant hard and soft skills in your skills section.
  3. Be specific. If you are too broad, you may not be giving the best picture of your skills and leave the hiring manager uncertain of your abilities.
  4. Be up to date. Software names change and companies merge. Don't look out of touch by being careless.
  5. Be accurate. Spelling and even upper or lowercase can dramatically change meanings. Make sure you are correctly listing your skills.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some advertising consultant interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on an advertising consultant resume:

  • Sales Territory
  • SEO
  • Cold Calls
  • SEM
  • Search Engine
  • Market Research
  • Account Management
  • Business Sales
  • Sales Presentations
  • Business Development
  • Trade Shows
  • Sales Quota
  • ROI
  • Sales Objectives
  • Real Estate
  • Search Engine Marketing
  • Client Relationships
  • Promotional Materials
  • Business Relationships
  • Media Sales
  • Press Releases
  • Google Adwords
  • Facebook
  • Media Planning
  • Sales Revenue
  • PowerPoint
  • Creative Solutions
  • Print ADS
  • Customer Accounts
  • PPC

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How to structure your work experience

Your work experience should be structured:

  1. With your most recent roles first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
  2. Job title, along with company name and location on the left.
  3. Put the corresponding dates of employment on the left side.
  4. Keep only relevant jobs on your work experience.

How to write advertising consultant experience bullet points

Effective job bullet points do more than just describe your job duties. Instead, they should be specific and measurable accomplishments. Here are some strategies to mastering job bullet points:

  • Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
  • Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
  • Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.

Here are examples from great advertising consultant resumes:

Work history example #1

Account Coordinator

Verizon

  • Encouraged standard of excellence in performance, communication, and attitude among Business Solutions Specialists.
  • Received Verizon Wireless Leading Women Award in 2010 & 2011.
  • Assisted with processing of payroll as well as supervisor/management expense processing.
  • Utilized specific, detailed calling strategies, numerous database programs, and organizational techniques to develop new business for telecommunication solutions.
  • Educated internal and external customers or company guidelines and procedures; giving guidance and direction on completing requests timely and efficiently.

Work history example #2

Sales/Account Representative

Best Buy

  • Experienced in developing new dealers and sales representatives.
  • Leveraged business development expertise to expand our profitability in the steadily growing field of computer repair.
  • Prepared bank deposits and reconciled cash registers.
  • Fostered a team-work based sales environment conducive to open communication throughout the department and business group.
  • Interfaced with management and sales representatives to improve productivity.

Work history example #3

Account Executive, Key Accounts

HSBC North America Holdings

  • Designed and coordinated technological data delivery system to/from Household into readable wire (via Internet) access.
  • Utilized Drill-down reports and monitored data through CRM tools to formulate effective sales strategies.
  • Established new sales territory for an emerging SaaS based security software application targeted for both government and public use.
  • Represented Sallie Mae and its subsidiaries at colleges and universities in Eastern Washington Alaska, Idaho and Montana.
  • Provided in-depth end-user support to C-level clients across a wide array of financial products.

Work history example #4

Advertising Sales Representative

Lincare Holdings

  • Managed ongoing established accounts, performed educational in-services, diffused information to medical staff and documented all communications.
  • Ensured all paperwork for organization, insurance companies, and Medicare were accurately completed.
  • Performed sales calls to Pulmonary and Cardiology specialty practices, hospitals and pharmacist.
  • Assisted the new Scott's associates to help achieve goals at Trugreen.
  • Interacted with C-level administration at hospitals quarterly to implement new strategies and processes for efficiency and program expansion.

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Add an education section to your resume

Here is the best way to format your education section:

  • Display your highest degree first.
  • If you graduated over 5 years ago, put this section at the bottom of your resume. If you lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
  • If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education.
  • If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.

Here are some examples of good education entries from advertising consultant resumes:

Bachelor's Degree in business

Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, CO

1997 - 2000

Bachelor's Degree in business

DeVry University, Oakbrook Terrace, IL

2001 - 2004

Highlight your advertising consultant certifications on your resume

If you have any additional certifications or education-like achievements, add them to the education section.

To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your advertising consultant resume:

  1. Certified Sales Professional (CSP)
  2. Certified Advertising Specialist (CAS)