Academic CV to industry resume converter
An eight-page academic CV and a two-page industry resume answer different questions. One documents a scholarly record; the other argues that you can solve a company's problem. The converter reduces the first into the second without losing your strongest evidence.
The template opens straight in your workspace — even if you have never saved it before.
What to cut, keep and translate
Most of the length disappears in three moves.
- Cut: exhaustive publication and conference lists, committee minutiae
- Keep: methods, tools, funding secured, teams supervised, teaching scale
- Translate: "principal investigator" into project ownership and budget
- Add: a summary naming the industry role you are targeting
Research described as delivery
Industry reads for scope and outcome: what question, whose problem, what result, over how long, with what resources. A grant becomes a secured budget; a lab rotation becomes cross-functional collaboration; a thesis becomes a multi-year project delivered against a deadline.
Keep the academic version alive
Both documents stay in your archive and share one profile. Applying for a postdoc next month does not mean rebuilding the long-form CV from scratch.
Frequently asked questions
- How long should the industry version be?
- Two pages. Three at most for very senior research leadership.
- Do I keep the publication list?
- Select three to five relevant items and link to the full list or your scholar profile.
- Should I still use the doctor title?
- In the DACH region yes, it carries weight. In UK and US applications it is optional.
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