How to "dress up" a CV that has a PhD but no peer reviewed publication record? I have a glaring omission in my CV because I do not have any scholarly (peer reviewed) publications to my credit. However, I have good industry-based experience (more than 10 years when I have written a number of manuals and submissions), and have recently completed a Social Science PhD from a reputable university. I am after some guidance on ways in which a person in my position would address this glaring omission in a CV so as to better highlight/present his credentials for academic purposes (e.g. to apply to join a university etc).
If you have submitted manuscripts to peer-reviewed outlets, you can say so.  If you have anything under second-round review, be sure to say so because that's all the better.

If you haven't submitted manuscripts, you could do so.  One of my peer-reviewed publications was originally a paper I wrote for a Ph.D. seminar.  I blew the dust off, firmed it up and made it stronger, and I submitted it.  It was a nice little paper.  My point is that you have doubtless done work that you could turn into a submission with X weeks of work.

Lots of people list their current research projects under a title such as "Current Research."

Beware that search committees know all the tricks.  You're not going to fool anyone.  But, I'm sure your goal is not to "fool" anyone at all.  You just want to put your best foot forward, and there's nothing wrong with that.