Jumpstart Your Instructional Design Career
Thinking about becoming an Instructional Designer (ID) but have no idea how to get started? Instructional Design is a field that is high in demand, very flexible, highly lucrative, and provides you with a great work-life balance (say bye to being overworked and underpaid)! Join Jill Davidian, 21-year corporate Instructional Design veteran and host of Jumpstart Your Instructional Design Career! Jill has worked in many different industries including finance, health care, oil and gas, manufacturing, and even with the United Nations. She has helped over 500 new Instructional Designers launch their ID careers with corporate giants like Google and Amazon, as well as smaller companies. Each week she brings real talk, advice and inspiration, and interviews to help budding IDs stand out from the crowd and get that first job. Whether you are trying to figure out if Instructional Design is right for you, or you are ready to create a portfolio and rework your resume, you are in the right place to jumpstart your Instructional Design career.
Jumpstart Your Instructional Design Career
32: The 9-Week Summer Portfolio Plan for Aspiring IDs
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Every summer, people say they're going to make progress on their instructional design transition, and then August comes and nothing happened. In this episode, I'm giving you the exact nine-week plan I would follow to learn Storyline and build a portfolio sample that actually impresses hiring managers. No more dabbling. No more overwhelm. Just a real plan.
Top reasons to listen to the entire episode:
- Get the full nine-week breakdown for learning ID fundamentals, mastering Storyline basics and advanced features, and building a polished portfolio sample from scratch
- Learn why scaffolding your learning, and getting feedback at two key checkpoints, is what separates a portfolio that wows from one that falls flat
- Find out how to use AI as both a productivity tool and an accountability partner to stay on track all summer long
Resources and Links Mentioned:
- Sign-up for the Summer ID Roadmap Masterclass
- Join the Articulate License Giveaway
- Subscribe to Jumpstart Your ID Career on Substack
- Join the Jumpstart Your Instructional Design Career Facebook Group
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