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As part 2 of our learning & development jobs series, Cara North shares her recent experience assuming the role of a hiring manager. While every organization is different and “your mileage may vary,” the advice she provides should help L&D job seekers understand what to do, what not to do, and what a hiring manager may be expecting of job candidates throughout the hiring process.

Resources shared:

• TLDC episode recording: Confessions Of An ID Hiring Manager
• Job search and career advice from Andrew LaCivita on YouTube
• TLDC Job Seeker Series

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• LnDTees.com Learning & Development themed swag
• IRD.LnDTees.com Instructional Redesign podcast swag

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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
  

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• LnDTees.com Learning & Development themed swag
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After a several month long hiatus, Cara North and Joe Suarez are back to bring listeners up to speed on what they have been up to, how their job statuses have changed, and announce new episodes and LnDtees.com. It’s a swag shop for fun and snarky learning and development themed items and apparel. 

• TLDC Job Seeker Series hosted by Joe
  • Part 1: Moving On After Being Let Go
  • Part 2: Searching & Applying for L&D Jobs
  • Part 3: Resumes & Portfolios (sorry for poor audio)
  • Part 4: Interviews
• DevLearn 2020
• LnDTees.com Learning & Development themed swag
  • IRD.LnDTees.com Instructional Redesign podcast swag
• Connect with Cara & Joe
• Support the show

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In this episode, Cara has a great conversation with self-proclaimed immersive experience designer, Betty Dannewitz. Betty’s passion is to help people become better humans and believes innovative technology has an HUGE role in making that happen.

Since this episode was recorded, she’s started her own excellent podcast, If You Ask Betty. Check it out.

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Myths in Learning and Development

There are many pervasive myths in the field of learning and development. Despite most being disproved, some continue to be promoted as fact. Some are even dangerously counter-productive to learning. In this episode, Cara and Joe discuss some of these common myths and share their perspectives.

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Cara interviews John Hinchliffe, Instructional Design Expert at UAEU.

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What skills does an instructional designer need in 2020?

As we move into 2020, Cara and Joe discuss some of the skills they consider to be essential for instructional designers.

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What to consider when planning to create a video learning solution…

Cara and Joe have a super helpful discussion around many of the considerations that go into the production (yes, it’s a production) of video both big and small.

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Interview with the eLearning Guys

Dave Charney and Nejc Žorga Dulmin host the eLearning Guys podcast where they talk in depth about their favorite authoring tool, Articulate Storyline. So it’s only fitting that we have them on the show to talk shop about eLearning development and their latest venture, a video course library called Master Storyline.

The guys were gracious enough to provide Instructional Redesign podcast listeners with a 10% off discount on their first purchase at MasterStoryline.com. The offer is good through 2019.