| name | translate-academic-experience-for-industry |
| category | resume |
| description | Translate academic experience for industry by mapping verified research, teaching, service, and project work to target capabilities and outcomes. Use when specialist experience must be legible outside academia. |
translate-academic-experience-for-industry
Translate context and contribution without inflating authority or commercial impact.
When to use
- Use for resumes, profiles, applications, portfolios, or interviews during an academic-to-industry move.
- Do not rename a thesis as a product, students as direct reports, a grant as revenue, or collaboration as management.
Preconditions
- Gather target roles, complete academic history, verified projects, outputs, tools, stakeholders, constraints, and feedback.
Procedure
- Extract target problems, capabilities, decisions, collaboration, domain, tools, and results.
- Inventory academic examples with context, role, authority, action, scale, result, and evidence.
- Map research to problem framing and analysis, teaching to facilitation, and service to operations only where evidence supports it.
- Replace unexplained academic terms while retaining technically meaningful language.
- Write bullets with truthful ownership and distinguish individual, team, supervised, and institutional outcomes.
- Add concrete artifacts or links that a nonacademic reviewer can assess.
- Test comprehension with a target-domain reader and revise without erasing specialist depth.
Failure plan
- If no direct target evidence exists, identify a small real project rather than manufacturing equivalence.
- If a translation changes the factual claim, restore the original scope.
Worked example
A doctoral researcher describes designing a reproducible analysis pipeline and coordinating external data access, but does not call the work product ownership.
Done
- A translation report and revised resume record target capabilities, source experiences, bounded mappings, evidence, artifacts, and wording
- Authority, ownership, outcome, jargon, chronology, link, reader-comprehension, and candidate-approval checks verify accuracy
