The hardest job hunt will be the first. The lesson for transitioning teachers is to broaden your job search for your first official ID role.

Teachers looking to break into the field of corporate instructional design need to redo all of their application materials.

When building your digital portfolio, I would recommend including a variety of these work samples.

The job market for instructional design is competitive, and I have had many aspiring IDs ask me how they can stand out amongst a pool of hundreds of applications.