Prepare your resume
A strong, role-tailored resume is the single highest-leverage artifact in tech recruiting. Draft multiple versions, iterate with coaches, and upgrade your bullets with AI.
AI resume bullet upgrader for MBAs
Drop your resume into an LLM with the prompt below. You'll get MBA-level, quantified, role-aligned bullets in minutes.
Write your target role at the top of the chat
e.g., "I'm applying for PM internships."
Upload your resume as a PDF
The AI will rewrite your bullets in MBA-level recruiting language: clear, quantified, outcome-focused, and aligned to your role.
Resume strategy checklist
Five things HTC members revisit every time they re-draft for a new target role.
Numbers are universal
Driving $80M of incremental revenue or 100K new MAUs is easy and quick to grade. Quantify everything you can.
Show your impact, not your task
Write what you accomplished, not what you were responsible for. "I led" beats "I was responsible for."
Less is more
Stick to one page. Take the time to be concise. Every word should earn its place.
Unconventional experience works
Open-source projects, side businesses, passion work. If you can explain the decisions and impact, it counts.
Build honest credibility
Avoid buzzwords. Showing how seemingly unrelated experience maps to the role builds a stronger story than filler keywords.
PM resume keyword toolkit
Scan your resume for these keywords before you submit. If you don't have them, find ways to embed them. Recruiters parse for signal fast, and the right language tells them you're a fit.
| PM competency | Keywords to use | Example bullet |
|---|---|---|
| Learning about current and prospective customers | competitive analysis, customer journey, customer segmentation, market analysis, market research, pain points, personas, targeting, usability studies | Conducted usability study with inactive users to identify the top 3 reasons they'd stopped engaging with the site |
| Developing a vision for a new product based on customer needs | ideation, product lifecycle, product vision, roadmap, value proposition | Set the vision for a new photo sharing app, from high-level concept to roadmap and milestones |
| Translating that vision into detailed specifications | mock ups, product requirements, specifications, user interface, user stories, wireframes, go-to-market, launch, prototypes, release checklist, testing | Authored product requirements and wireframes for a redesigned checkout flow, aligning engineering and design on scope ahead of a 6-week build |
| Motivating cross-functional partners to ship on time | collaborate, consensus, cross-functional, daily workflow, engineers, influence, leadership, milestones, shared vision, ship on time and within budget | Led daily standups with engineering and design to unblock work, achieving 90% feature functionality within the first three months of development |
| Evaluating key metrics to share with execs | A/B test, KPIs, metrics, OKRs, SQL, dashboard, presentation, senior leadership | Ran A/B test to determine the most effective onboarding flows, increasing new user sign-ups 75% month-over-month |
| Customer research — interviews, testing, focus groups | user experience, customer interviews, qualitative research, quantitative research, surveys, usability studies | Led usability studies for our website, identifying font size as a major culprit for the site's high bounce rate |
| Presenting to executives | communication, executives, management, presentation, senior leadership, stakeholders | Presented plan to senior leadership, earning buy-in for a process change expected to save the firm $500K annually |
Keyword set and example bullets adapted from the HTC Career Hub. PM-specific; adjacent roles (PMM, BizOps, Strategy) use overlapping but not identical vocabulary.
Resources HTC members use
CMG resume workshops
CMG hosts a series of workshops dedicated to building a strong MBA resume.
CMG coaches & peer advisors
Book time with them via the CMG BEARS system to review your resume draft.
VMOCK
AI resume review system to polish up your draft. Check CMG communications for access.
Haas resume books
Past Haas resumes provided by the CMG. Look for people with similar backgrounds or target jobs to understand the format and what works.