GRADUATE CONSULTANT RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: Apr 25, 2025 - The Graduate Consultant supports the implementation of Energy and Environmental Management Systems by coordinating action plans, setting priorities, and ensuring timely execution. This position conducts technical audits and environmental assessments across existing estates to identify energy-saving opportunities and ensure compliance with sustainability regulations. This role delivers investment-grade reports, provides strategic consultancy, and manages carbon reduction projects through stakeholder engagement, legislative analysis, and performance monitoring.

Tips for Graduate Consultant Skills and Responsibilities on a Resume

1. Graduate Consultant, SynerGrowth Analytics, Fresno, CA

Job Summary:

  • Act as support to the Scrum Master by running the backlog and sprints, coordinating key meetings and developing sprint plans / agile release trains (Scrum trainings and coaching will be provided)
  • Working with one of the project teams of three to five consultants and getting fully immersed in day-to-day consulting work
  • Structuring complex problems and taking responsibility and action to solve them
  • Collaborating successfully with clients to develop the best solution and motivating people and organisations to create impact
  • Communicating effectively and in a systematic manner with various audiences, especially senior leaders
  • Owning and discovering information sources, collecting and analysing data and conducting analyses to produce actionable results
  • Continuing a personal development plan, identifying and developing skills in order to progress through the company
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships with candidates and clients
  • Preparing relevant decisions, share outcomes with internal audience groups, stakeholder management, action tracking, project timelines & planning and meeting preparation
  • Support the delivery of executive presentations, process mapping, workstream management and communication material


Skills on Resume: 

  • Backlog Management (Hard Skills)
  • Sprint Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Problem Structuring (Soft Skills)
  • Client Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Effective Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
  • Executive Presentation (Hard Skills)

2. Graduate Consultant, BlueSky Advisory Group, Lubbock, TX

Job Summary:

  • Contribute skills to projects and support interdisciplinary team in addressing challenging demands from clients
  • Support Team in a wide range of environmental translations (permitting, impact assessments)
  • Prepare translations of the environmental studies from Polish to English and English to Polish
  • Write Reports in Polish and English
  • Engage with international colleagues and clients
  • Reviewing Company financial information, including P&L, balance sheets and Company valuations
  • Liaising with clients over the phone and by email discussing business opportunities and qualifying key information
  • Building strong client relationships
  • Coordinating a variety of client projects
  • Negotiating client agreements and reviewing lease information


Skills on Resume: 

  • Project Support (Soft Skills)
  • Environmental Translations (Hard Skills)
  • Report Writing (Hard Skills)
  • Client Engagement (Soft Skills)
  • Financial Review (Hard Skills)
  • Client Liaison (Soft Skills)
  • Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
  • Project Coordination (Hard Skills)

3. Graduate Consultant, EverBright Solutions, Eugene, OR

Job Summary:

  • Join with relevant internal stakeholders across the impacted units, applying internal process mapping tools
  • Participate in assignments that drive organizational development, jointly with one of the senior team members
  • Communicate and Change Management within projects to a wide range of internal stakeholders across the layers of the organization.
  • Contribute expertise to the process of capturing, clarifying and managing requirements for large IT systems.
  • Combine broad IT expertise and problem-solving skills to design elements of IT systems.
  • Apply robust organisational and communication skills to coordinate people from other teams and other companies.
  • Ensure systems are built in line with technical specifications.
  • Configure or deploy components of IT systems.
  • Do all the above as part of project teams that are a mix of REPL colleagues, client and supplier staff.
  • Continue to learn more technical skills, both with assistance from REPL management and through self-directed learning


Skills on Resume: 

  • Stakeholder Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Organizational Development (Soft Skills)
  • Change Management (Soft Skills)
  • Requirements Management (Hard Skills)
  • IT Design (Hard Skills)
  • Coordination Skills (Soft Skills)
  • System Specifications (Hard Skills)
  • System Deployment (Hard Skills)

4. Graduate Consultant, NovaEdge Strategies, Savannah, GA

Job Summary:

  • Inspects properties together with a Strategic Consulting team member
  • Searching Title, Data Verification and Audit
  • Find information in property databases
  • Assist in the preparation of computer cash flow models
  • Assist in coordinating larger assignments
  • Assist with Research including data collection and compilation of research deliverables
  • Set up the template for each different report
  • Enter figures into a spreadsheet for the appendices
  • Insert market rental and capital value information
  • Develop the Environmental & Energy Management Systems (ISO14001/ISO50001).


Skills on Resume: 

  • Property Inspection (Hard Skills)
  • Data Verification (Hard Skills)
  • Research Assistance (Soft Skills)
  • Cash Flow Models (Hard Skills)
  • Report Coordination (Soft Skills)
  • Data Entry (Hard Skills)
  • Market Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • System Development (Hard Skills)

5. Graduate Consultant, Brightline Business Partners, Fort Wayne, IN

Job Summary:

  • Work on defined tasks under limited supervision with some autonomy.
  • Responsible for checking the quality and accuracy of work.
  • Responsible for the production of routine letters/ reports and other documents from standard templates.
  • Responsible for the effective organisation of information and documentation e.g. filing and compliance with QA procedures etc.
  • Production and/or verification of content of corporate environmental reports, SECR annual reports, and development of carbon reduction strategy.
  • Responsible for meeting agreed deadlines, and working within agreed budgets, timescales and targets, and for raising potential issues with the team leader as soon as possible.
  • Contribute to and comply with HPF company policies and procedures (incl. those related to the environment and Health & Safety).
  • Develop an understanding of new and up and upcoming legislation and how it will impact business and clients.
  • Contribute to internal ‘knowledge share’ of best practice.
  • Identify and pursue new business opportunities where appropriate with existing and new clients (with the support of colleagues).
  • Preparing applications for Pollution Prevention and Control / Environmental / EUETS permits.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Task Management (Soft Skills)
  • Quality Control (Hard Skills)
  • Report Production (Hard Skills)
  • Information Organization (Soft Skills)
  • Environmental Reporting (Hard Skills)
  • Deadline Management (Soft Skills)
  • Policy Compliance (Soft Skills)
  • Legislation Awareness (Soft Skills)

6. Graduate Consultant, Clearpath Insights, Reno, NV

Job Summary:

  • Implement the Energy and Environmental Management Systems, Programmes or action plans including setting of tasks, ownership, priority and deadlines.
  • Undertaking desk-based auditing, footprinting and benchmarking for energy and carbon pertaining to existing estates.
  • Production and/or verification of the content of corporate environmental reports, or CRC annual reports.
  • Carrying out on-site technical investigations/surveys/audits in order to identify opportunities, or to collate information for regulatory compliance including assessment of building fabric, building services, energy systems, business operations and housekeeping.
  • Supporting the sustainable design, construction or refurbishment of buildings, for example, by the production of investment-grade reports and business cases using analysis tools such as Simple Payback, IRR and NPV. 
  • Providing expert advice to the design team/client/contractor as the professional environmental consultant.
  • Undertaking stakeholder engagement at all levels of client organisations to communicate awareness and collect relevant information to assist in delivering energy, carbon or environmental programmes.
  • Maintain professional knowledge of environmental, energy, carbon and sustainability legislation.
  • Understand and communicate the impacts of this, both current and future, to client organisations.
  • Project management of energy and carbon survey projects, including procurement, programme delivery, commissioning and monitoring of performance.
  • Collating, analysing and distributing reports, preparing summary reports and researching topics by project teams.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Energy Management (Hard Skills)
  • Desk Auditing (Hard Skills)
  • Environmental Reporting (Hard Skills)
  • Technical Surveys (Hard Skills)
  • Sustainable Design (Hard Skills)
  • Expert Advice (Soft Skills)
  • Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)
  • Legislation Knowledge (Hard Skills)