How do I get hired as a New Instructional Designer?
This is one of the most frequently asked questions by professionals who want to start their career as an Instructional Designer or eLearning Professional.
In this video, let’s examine the most important asset that can help you get hired. And that asset is your portfolio.
Building and presenting a credible portfolio is the most important asset that can help you get hired as a new Instructional Designer.
To learn, you can either watch the video or read the blog.
Benefits of a Personal eLearning Portfolio
When you are looking to start your career in Instructional Design, you won’t have any past work to showcase your abilities. You may have all the Instructional Design talent and skills required to do a great job. However, your chances of getting hired are low unless a recruiting manager sees what you are capable of.
Even if you are an experienced Instructional Designer, the work that you do for your customers or company will be protected under copyright regulations. So, as you advance your career, keep updating your portfolio to include latest design trends, and tools.
Portfolio Inclusions
Next, consider building a portfolio that includes a sample of:
- An interactive eLearning that is built with tools such as Lectora, Articulate Storyline, or Rise.
- A video showing demonstration of using a software application. This could a demo of performing simple tasks on Microsoft Office or Google’s Productivity Suite.
- A writing sample showcasing your instructional writing skills.
Sharing a Portfolio
You don’t need to build a Website to host your portfolio. The portfolio can be:
- Hosted on Google Drive or OneDrive, or
- Published as a video on YouTube or Vimeo.
Keys to Making a Great Portfolio
To make a great portfolio:
- Learn and use the key learning theories, such as Bloom’s taxonomy, Merrill’s Principles of Instruction, Gagne’s Nine Events of Instructions, ADDIE, etc.
- Write with clarity, brevity, and with an aim to achieve the learning objectives that you’ve set for your portfolio course.
- Design great-looking screens with interactions, process diagrams, stock photos, and illustrations.
- Learn the popular authoring tools.
- Treat your portfolio development as a client project. That is, have a clear timeline in place, prepare a task list, assign due dates to each task, and use project management best practices during portfolio development. This will help you answer some questions related to Project Management that your recruiters can ask.
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