| It's never a simple process to move from the | | | | out your accomplishments. The accomplishments |
| academic world to a corporate system. These worlds | | | | statement absolutely has to be strong--this is vital to |
| can be vastly different, requiring different things from | | | | your chances of getting the position. You wouldn't |
| their high-level counterparts. | | | | allow your college students to get away with brief, |
| However, being a go-getter, it shouldn't be difficult | | | | inconsequential and unproved statements, and so you |
| for you to make the shift from professor to | | | | shouldn't use this vital section of your resume to only |
| executive if you so desire. It's just a matter of | | | | discuss your responsibilities in your job as a professor. |
| feeling confident that you can get the job done on | | | | Therefore, use this space to show real |
| either side of the fence. | | | | accomplishments that make you a viable, interesting |
| But if you're still not sure about how to do it, here | | | | candidate. |
| are some tips to help you make the transition. | | | | How do you get this done? Again, you want to |
| Try a Functional Resume | | | | provide a sense of continuity between your |
| While some recruiters and employers dislike the | | | | academic and prospective corporate career, so look |
| functional resume because they feel it doesn't tell the | | | | for experiences that line up between the two. If |
| whole story, this is still a good route to take when | | | | you've been a board committee lead, this is a good |
| making a shift from the academic to corporate world. | | | | time to not just say you led a committee, but say |
| Because you're basically changing your industry, you | | | | exactly what you accomplished on the committee |
| might lack the experiences of competitors in your | | | | (talk about the committee's hardships, how you |
| new field even if some of your basic skills are the | | | | helped pull it through, how many people you led, |
| same. | | | | what goals you had and how you fulfilled them). The |
| With a functional resume, you will be able to place | | | | idea is to dig down deep, and to find anything that |
| the majority of the resume's focus on how you are | | | | you can that shows your superior qualifications for |
| specifically aligned with the executive position you are | | | | the executive position. Again, being a professor and |
| going after. Regardless of how much experience | | | | future executive, there's no excuse for you not |
| you'd had in your professor job, you've probably got | | | | putting your best foot forward. |
| a history of calculating figures, budget management, | | | | Probably one of the most difficult aspects of making |
| team building, management, and projecting outcomes, | | | | the switch from one industry to another is being so |
| and these are vital experiences. The more you take | | | | settled in your current field that you have no clear |
| corporate terms and align them with your academic | | | | perspective of how you can make a difference in a |
| experience, the better your chances will be of | | | | new industry. However, now is the perfect time to |
| proving that you are the right person for the position | | | | learn more about how your abilities and personalities |
| you want. | | | | can help you go from professor to corporate |
| Make Your Accomplishment Statements Strong | | | | executive. |
| In your resume, there will be opportunities to spell | | | | |