EY Resume Format Guide

General, ATS-friendly formatting guidance for applying to EY and similar large professional-services firms.

This isn't insider information from EY's hiring team — it's general best practice for applying to any large professional-services or consulting firm, where high application volume almost always means an ATS is the first filter. EY, like most global firms of its size, is known to process applications at scale, which makes clean parsing especially important.

Structure it the way a large firm expects

• Contact details at the top of the body (not in a header/footer)
• Education with degree, institution, and graduation year — firms like EY hire heavily from campus programs, so this section is scanned closely
• Experience or internships, most recent first, with role, organization, and dates clearly labeled
• Skills relevant to the specific practice you're applying to (audit, tax, consulting, technology)
• Certifications (CA, CPA, CFA, or relevant technical certifications) listed explicitly, since these are commonly used as hard filters

Match language to the specific practice

"Assurance," "Tax," "Consulting," and "Technology" roles at a firm like EY each have distinct terminology. A resume for a technology-consulting role should reference the specific tools and methodologies in that posting rather than generic business language — the closer your wording matches the job description, the better a keyword-matching system will score it.

Keep it factual and quantified

Big-firm recruiters and their systems both respond well to specifics: client counts, project scope, deal size, or team size, where you're able to share them without breaching confidentiality. Vague statements about "cross-functional collaboration" carry far less signal than a concrete outcome.