EP 027: L&D Jobs Series Part 1 – Advice for Job Seekers
After his recent experience finding a new job in 2019 and being let go in 2020, Joe Suarez decided to turn his misfortune into opportunity and share his lessons learned with others in the learning & development field. That kicked off a 4 part TLDC Job Seeker series. This episode of the podcast is a summary of his presentations along with helpful interjections and resources shared by co-host Cara North. Resources mentioned: * TLDC Job Seeker Series* Articulate's eLearning Heroes Challenges* Kristin Anthony's GoDesignSomething.co * Learning Guild's 2018 Global Salary & Compensation report* Devlin Peck's 2020 Instructional Designer Salary Report* Simplyhired.com - job search site with estimated salary ranges * Connect with Cara & Joe* Support the show* LnDTees.com Learning & Development themed swag* IRD.LnDTees.com Instructional Redesign podcast swag Music created by Jahzzar. Episode Transcript: Cara North 0:01Today on instructional redesign podcast, we're gonna be talking jobs, jobs, and more jobs with Joe Suarez. So if you missed Joe's series on it TLDCast, he had a wonderful four part series about seeking jobs during this time. And he has a lot of great sage advice, pandemic or no pandemic of great things that you should be doing in your job seeking journey. And today, what we're going to do is we're just going to do a quick recap of some of the things that Joe talked about, see if he still recommends a lot of the same things he talked about a few months ago, and maybe also talk about the future and what that potential looks like. That sounds like a plan to you, Joe. Joseph Suarez 0:48That definitely sounds like a plan. Let's do it. Cara North 0:51Alright, let's go. Joseph Suarez 0:53Alright. So as Cara mentioned, I did a four part series on TLDC, around job seeking. And, you know, part of the reason I did this is because I went through a month long process in both 2019 and 2020, to find a job. And I was hoping the the 2019, one would have would have stuck a little longer. But unfortunately, I was only enrolled for five months. And they had to lay some of us off because of the financial impacts of the pandemic. So I found myself looking for a job again. And I realized that in that moment, that I was in a better position than most I had just gone through this, I felt very confident that I was going to be able to either find something, another full time job or be able to just start freelancing become full time self employed. But I knew others weren't in such a strong position. And I wanted to do something about that. And I figured I could share some some of what I know, with people. And ultimately, I landed on doing the TLDC series. So to start things off, I just want to look at things very big picture and just open with a very simple, I don't mean it to be condescending, but just ask the question, what is the job.