Consultant/Project Manager resume examples for 2025

Consultant/Project Manager resume format and sections

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   1. Add contact information to your consultant/project manager resume

   Your name should be the biggest text on the page and be at or near the top of the document. Your address doesn't need to include your street name or house number - listing your city and state works just fine. Your email address should be professional, but not your current work email address. It's not a good look to use your work email for personal projects (job-searching). Your social media can be included if you have a fully-fledged LinkedIn page or another social media page that showcases your relevant skill set.

   Consultant/Project Manager Resume Contact Information Example #1

   Jane Moore

   Montgomery, AL 36043| 333-111-2222 | jane.moore@email.com

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   2. Add relevant education to your consultant/project manager resume

   Your resume's education section should include:

   • The name of your school
   • The date you graduated (Month, Year or Year are both appropriate)
   • The name of your degree

   If you graduated more than 15 years ago, you should consider dropping your graduation date to avoid age discrimination.

   Optional subsections for your education section include:

   • Academic awards (Dean's List, Latin honors, etc. )
   • GPA (if you're a recent graduate and your GPA was 3.5+)
   • Extra certifications
   • Academic projects (thesis, dissertation, etc. )

   Other tips to consider when writing your education section include:

   • If you're a recent graduate, you might opt to place your education section above your experience section
   • The more work experience you get, the shorter your education section should be
   • List your education in reverse chronological order, with your most recent and high-ranking degrees first
   • If you haven't graduated yet, you can include "Expected graduation date" to the entry for that school

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   Majors

   Business

   28.5%

   Computer Science

   9.8%

   Finance

   5.6%

   Management

   5.1%

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   Consultant/Project Manager Resume Relevant Education Example #1

   Bachelor's Degree In Business 2011 - 2014

   Liberty University Lynchburg, VA

   Consultant/Project Manager Resume Relevant Education Example #2

   Bachelor's Degree In Business 2010 - 2013

   University of Maryland - College Park College Park, MD

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   3. Next, create a consultant/project manager skills section on your resume

   Your resume's skills section should include the most important keywords from the job description, as long as you actually have those skills. If you haven't started your job search yet, you can look over resumes to get an idea of what skills are the most important.

   Here are some tips to keep in mind when writing your resume's skills section:

   • Include 6-12 skills, in bullet point form
   • List mostly hard skills; soft skills are hard to test
   • Emphasize the skills that are most important for the job

   Hard skills are generally more important to hiring managers because they relate to on-the-job knowledge and specific experience with a certain technology or process.

   Soft skills are also valuable, as they're highly transferable and make you a great person to work alongside, but they're impossible to prove on a resume.

   Example of skills to include on an consultant/project manager resume

   • Business Development Skills.
      

     Business development is the ideas or initiatives that work to make business work better. Selling, advertising, product development, supply chain management, and vendor management are only a few of the divisions involved with it. There is still a lot of networking, negotiating, forming alliances, and trying to save money. The goals set for business development guide and coordinate with all of these various operations and sectors.

   • Scrum Skills.
      

     Scrum is a lean structure for communicating, designing, and promoting complex products, with a focus on programming development. It has been applied to a variety of areas, including manufacturing, testing, new technology, and marketing techniques. Scrum is a simple framework that helps people, organizations, and teams generate value by providing many solutions to complicated problems.

   • CRM Skills.
      

     CRM stands for Customer relationship management and it is a complete process through which a business or organization monitors and administers its interactions with the customers. A process in which large amounts of data are collected through marketing via a company's website, polls, surveys, and other social media applications. The basic goal of CRM is to target the right audience for their product, and then fulfill their needs, to increase the sales and revenue of the company.

   • QA Skills.
      

     QA, or Quality Assurance is a procedure that entails all of the steps taken to avoid any errors in the manufacturing process or in the production of the goods that a company produces. It can also include ensuring the consistency of the services rendered. Quality assurance ensures that the quality of the service delivered to consumers meets or exceeds the promised expectations. This greatly aids in the prevention of any complications that might arise after the goods or services have been distributed. It makes sure that customers are satisfied.

   • Infrastructure Skills.
      

     Infrastructure includes the organizational and physical structures needed to run an area or a society smoothly. It is a group of basic facilities required for any society or firm to run sustainably and efficiently. The infrastructural system is a high investing area and helps majorly in flourishing the economy and prosperity of a country. It is an underlying system needed for ensuring the safety and comfort of the public and to run a country smoothly. All the tasks needed to be performed for a flourishing economy and a happy and healthy public are included in infrastructure.

   • Healthcare Skills.
      

     Healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of a person's health by the diagnosis and treatment of a person's injury, illness, or any other disease. Healthcare is a basic necessity of human life and is the responsibility of the country's government to ensure that each person gets healthcare. Providing healthcare is the job of certified health professionals that includes doctors, surgeons, nurses, and other physicians. Pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, dentistry, therapy, and health training all come under healthcare. Healthcare plays a vital role in the country's economy and its development.

   Top Skills for a Consultant/Project Manager

   Project Management, 19.3%
   Project Scope, 10.8%
   Business Development, 9.7%
   Executive Management, 6.4%
   Other Skills, 53.8%
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   4. List your consultant/project manager experience

   The most important part of any resume for a consultant/project manager is the experience section. Recruiters and hiring managers expect to see your experience listed in reverse chronological order, meaning that you should begin with your most recent experience and then work backwards.

   Don't just list your job duties below each job entry. Instead, make sure most of your bullet points discuss impressive achievements from your past positions. Whenever you can, use numbers to contextualize your accomplishments for the hiring manager reading your resume.

   It's okay if you can't include exact percentages or dollar figures. There's a big difference even between saying "Managed a team of consultant/project managers" and "Managed a team of 6 consultant/project managers over a 9-month project. "

   Most importantly, make sure that the experience you include is relevant to the job you're applying for. Use the job description to ensure that each bullet point on your resume is appropriate and helpful.

   What experience really stands out on Consultant/Project Manager resumes?

   Robert Mcnab Ph.D.

   Professor of Economics, Old Dominion University

   Young graduates need to think about the job market in terms of signaling. How do you tell a prospective employer that you have a unique set of skills? Graduates often fail to understand that there are hundreds of applicants with similar traits competing for the same job, so you need a strong signal to the employer that separates you from the crowd. One such signal is practical experience. Have you been able to apply the concepts and tools from your college experience in the workplace? Did you seek out and find an internship, externship, or other type of formative experience that shows initiative, responsibility, and the acquisition of experience? If you don't have a strong signal, then you need to develop a plan. Find more experience economists in your area, ask questions, and develop a network. Figure out what you can do to separate yourself. It may sound like a cliche, but you need to market yourself.

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   Work History Example # 1

   Team Leader

   Camping World

   • Promoted and implemented change pertaining to new policies and procedures by communicating expectations positively.
   • Implemented special security procedures; Established personnel policies and procedures.
   • Maintained a positive work environment for a team of 14 employees across 4 departments and held expert ratings in customer satisfaction.
   • Maximized shift productivity and work quality through hands-on coaching and performance evaluation.
   • Maintained all forklift examinations, and performed annual testing for safety guidelines.

   Work History Example # 2

   Business Analyst

   EmblemHealth

   • Designed and Developed ETL process to support Call Center reports by using rank and sort techniques.
   • Developed various performance management dashboards enabling business intelligence reporting for application portfolio.
   • Evaluated and recommended changes or additions to new system functionality.
   • Modeled the AS-IS system and performed GAP Analysis for the existing system in order to map it to the TO-BE system.
   • Implemented and Instructed ETL best practices in all the phases of Data Warehousing life cycle.

   Work History Example # 3

   Finance Analyst

   American International Group

   • Assisted in the preparation of financial information packages that are relied upon company wide in order to complete GAAP-based financial statements.
   • Ensured compliance with Sarbanes Oxley, GAAP, and FASB guidelines.
   • Supported the team in preparing the financial reporting according to U.S. GAAP and SEC requirements 4.
   • Prepared Standard Operating Procedures for Derivative processes.
   • Generated and posted well-documented journal entries to the general ledger for both GAAP and STAT Reporting.

   Work History Example # 4

   Contracts Specialist

   Molina Healthcare

   • Ensured compliance with Medicaid and Medicare regulations, network capacity and adequacy requirements.
   • Served as a lead for the Dallas SDA Medicaid, Medicare Network and Health Exchange (HIX/Marketplace) Network expansion.
   • Served on advisory council in establishing new policies and procedures to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley internal control requirements.
   • Administered training workshops for professors and administrative staff related to university grant policies and procedures.
   • Administered several Indefinite-Delivery-Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contracts with the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines.

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   5. Highlight consultant/project manager certifications on your resume

   Specific consultant/project manager certifications can be a powerful tool to show employers you've developed the appropriate skills.

   If you have any of these certifications, make sure to put them on your consultant/project manager resume:

   1. Project Management Professional (PMP)
   2. Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
   3. Six Sigma Green Belt
   4. Master Project Manager (MPM)
   5. Certified Manager Certification (CM)
   6. Certified Construction Manager (CCM)
   7. Six Sigma Yellow Belt
   8. Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
   9. Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
   10. Professional Business Analyst Certificate

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   6. Finally, add an consultant/project manager resume summary or objective statement

   A resume summary statement consists of 1-3 sentences at the top of your consultant/project manager resume that quickly summarizes who you are and what you have to offer. The summary statement should include your job title, years of experience (if it's 3+), and an impressive accomplishment, if you have space for it.

   Remember to emphasize skills and experiences that feature in the job description.

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