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
33: Why Hiring Managers Reject Your Portfolio in 10 Seconds
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You've put in the work on your portfolio, but are employers even making it past the first page? After reviewing portfolios from my community, I kept seeing the same mistakes come up over and over. In this episode, I'm sharing the top five things that cause hiring managers to close a portfolio within the first ten seconds so you can fix them before it costs you the job.
Top reasons to listen to the entire episode:
- Find out the five most common portfolio mistakes that send hiring managers running, including the Storyline newbie mistake that immediately signals you're new to the software
- Learn exactly which samples belong in a corporate ID portfolio and the five minimum pieces every portfolio needs
- Discover why your portfolio is marketing, not just a collection of your work, and how that one shift changes everything about how you build it
Resources and Links Mentioned:
- Episode 27: What Needs to Be in Your ID Portfolio to Get Hired
- Subscribe to Jumpstart Your ID Career on Substack
- Join the Jumpstart Your Instructional Design Career Facebook Group
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