![]() ![]() This process is not and cannot be just about transitioning out of teaching. I say it that way because I'll never be completely certain, but that is when things seemed to turn around for me.īefore I proceed, there is one really big point that every teacher reading this needs to understand. Once again, I am no expert, but if I had to nail it down to one thing that set me apart and got my job hunt really moving, it MUST have been my resume. I am just somebody who took the time to write a unique and eye-catching resume.Įver since posting my "leaving teaching" story and inadvertently attracting a large audience of teachers seeking career changes on LinkedIn, I keep getting asked for advice on how to change careers. I am not some mythical, well-connected LinkedIn unicorn. ![]() That's right, just over one month after my job hunt began, and just over two weeks after drastically overhauling my resume. I'm thankful to have had the world's most supportive wife who understood when I needed to step away from her hospital room into the waiting room to do 2-3 phone/Zoom interviews each day.īy September 13th, 2021, I had two job offers. ![]() I was overjoyed at this newfound attention from employers, but it was also very overwhelming. In the midst of this craziness, my email inbox was blowing up with interview requests. Our baby boy arrived just a few days later via emergency C-section on September 5th. I left school at 10am, not realizing it would be the last time I would be there. My precious son decided to throw a wrench in these plans by spiking his mother's blood pressure, requiring her to be hospitalized on September 1st. I sat down and got to work on my resume and cranked out a much higher-quality, far more descriptive two pages of "me on a platter" and started sending it out with my applications. My then-pregnant wife was due with our first baby on October 15th, so I resolved myself to find new employment by his birthday. My employment had not been directly threatened, but the idea of staying in this environment was now a complete nonstarter to me. On August 27th, 2021, after a horrendous further escalation of my work situation which involved me being bullied and berated by an HR leader, I came home and stared at my resume in full-on survival mode. None of those jobs or companies were calling me back.yet. I had gotten some stray interviews here and there, but none were really for roles or companies that I was particularly interested in. It was a factually accurate list of my experience and skills, but honestly, if I was an employer I would have been bored reading it too. It was an automatically-created document version of work experience I had typed long ago into another job board website. The original resume I started out using on my hasty job hunt could best be described as "meh". If you're not sure what situation I am referring to, I highly recommend you going to my profile and reading the circumstances surrounding my intense need for such an urgent transition- it does provide some much-needed context here. On August 12th, 2021, I began my job hunt to transition quickly out of education. ![]()
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