Does Customer Success need a portfolio?

Who are customer success managers? Customer success is one of the most dynamic and diverse fields that I’m aware of. At least within Edtech, Customer Success covers a wide range of titles including:  1. Customer Success Manager 2. Customer Success Representative 3. Customer Success Coordinator 4. Customer Support Manager 5. Client Success Manager 6. Account […]

Do Instructional Designers need a portfolio?

Who are instructional designers? In a highly reductive nutshell, instructional designers develop educational materials, activities, programs, etc.  work with, or perform research to function as, an SME identify learning objectives create instructional materials (i.e. lesson plans, courses, interactive media) to achieve a learning goal, objective, or desired outcome use a variety of research-based strategies to […]

How to Save Searches (and then organize them!)

I’ve got my job search the way I want it. Now I’m afraid to shut my laptop! We’ve all found ourselves at the wrong end of the save button on a file. So it’s easy to understand why, now that you have your perfect job search filtered just so, that you’re hesitant to do anything, […]

But What About those Other Filters?

Wait. Wait. Wait. There are MORE Filters?! The short answer is yes.  The long answer is – oh heck yes! Just wait until the end – you’ll be happy about it.  The Good News. The good news is that quite a few filters under the “All Filters” umbrella are ones we’re already familiar with.  Don’t […]

The Company Filter

Why Would I Want to Filter by Company? The Company Filter is 1. incredibly powerful.  2. incredibly under utilized, especially in new-to-transitioning folks (not just teachers).  Why? Because a lot of pivoters are focused primarily on the roles/career paths that they’ve outlined for themselves. They often start by shot gunning applications out into the field […]

LinkedIn Filters: a Beginners Guide

Ok! We’re ready. We’ve narrowed it down to a career path or two. Maybe three. These paths may have emerged as a result of our non-negotiables list, talking with friends and family, informational interviews with folks in career fields we thought might be interesting, doing research, whatever. Either way, we’ve got our short list – […]

Non-Negotiables

What are Non-Negotiables? Non-negotiables are needs that a job must satisfy to be viable.  While that might seem pretty obvious at first, most career transitioners, particularly educators who are considering transitioning out of the classrooms that I speak with are focused on three primary things:  1. salary 2. medical benefits 3. remote work or work […]

Let’s Get Organized!

Where do I even start?! At the beginning – where we always start.  If you think about job hunting, networking, identifying companies, making a list of non-negotiables, writing your resume, crafting cover letters – you’ll drown. Or worse, you’ll give up. Instead, let’s tackle this one piece at a time.  Let’s start with something that […]