TLDC Countdown to Conference: Pre-Planning Your Professional Developm…
Trish Uhl presentation on career paths and skill development for learning professionals
Survival Tips for Learning Professionals | LinkedIn
5 tips from Alexander Salas for how to get a job as an instructional designer or elearning developer (although these apply to other fields too):
- Have a website
- Continuously develop new skills
- Have daily social media presence
- Develop work samples
- Keep up with your industry
Go Design Something: Building Your Job-Winning Portfolio
Kristin Anthony's free course on building an instructional design portfolio
Remote Work Doesn’t Scale … or Does It? – Hacker Noon
The founder of Articulate explains how having a remote workforce makes it easier to scale up as a company grows
Because we’re remote, we’re laser-focused on productivity. We know a team’s working well because they’re producing high-quality work. And we know when things aren’t working well because there are hiccups in productivity or quality.
In fact, I firmly believe that <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Articulate is better at collaboration and communication</em> than many traditional companies because we haven’t had the luxury of assuming it’ll just happen organically. We deliberately architect the way we work to support collaboration and foster clear, direct, open communication.
Generalist versus specialist? How about a misshapen comb
This is an expanded view of the T-shaped skills explained in Cammy Bean's "Accidental Instructional Designer." It's not a binary of generalist vs. specialist. Many of us have T-shaped skills; we have a broad base (the top of the T) with one set of deeper skills (the vertical in the T). If you have several deeper skills, a map of your skills looks more like a misshapen, uneven comb.
Finding Your Place In an Instructional Design Career
"Instructional design" is a big umbrella that can mean different things in different organizations. This post describes a number of options for the focus of instructional design and related roles.
Teachers in Need of a New Career Path: Think Instructional Design
Article from a graduate of the IDOL academy on how and why to transition from teaching to instructional design
Instructional Design Hiring Manager Report 2021
Devlin Peck summarizes and analyzes responses from 101 hiring managers surveyed about what factors influence their decisions when evaluating instructional design and elearning candidates.
How to Become an Instructional Designer: The Ultimate Resource List - Scissortail Creative Services, LLC
An extensive list of curated resources for becoming an instructional designer, including blog posts, videos, books, and people to follow on Twitter. There's a section specifically for teachers looking to transition to an ID career too. (Yes, my ID careers posts are on the list, but there's a ton of other good stuff from other people too).
Transform Your Trashy Teacher Resume
A real life example of a former teacher's resume and how she revamped it to successfully get a job in instructional design. Great to see the before and after as well as the notes on the decisions behind the changes.
Career Tips All Women Should Know - Scissortail Creative Services, LLC
Kayleen Holt recaps the TLDC Women of L&D 2023 event with a summary of key points addressed in multiple sessions. Reading this article may help you determine how to prioritize which recordings from the event you want to watch.
Talent Stacking For An Instructional Design Career
Connie Malamed explains the concept of talent stacking, or building competence in multiple skills that work well together. She provides some lists of competences for L&D roles as examples of the kinds of talent stacking that might work.