Shift the emphasis from technical method to problem, scale, decision, leadership, and outcome.

The PhD skills for consulting guide shows how research capabilities such as hypothesis development, data analysis, stakeholder management, and communication translate into consulting.

Keep enough technical context to show difficulty, but do not make the recruiter decode your field. Quantify scope and impact where possible, especially when you led teams, secured funding, changed a process, or influenced a decision.

My best rewrite was turning 'used method X' into what decision the work enabled.

Assume the recruiter knows zero about your field.