Teacher Career Change | Transferable Teacher Skills | 5 exciting career changes for teachers!
Summary
TLDRCareer Coach Karalyn Brown's video explores alternative career paths for teachers, emphasizing the value of transferable skills. She showcases real-life examples of teachers who transitioned into roles like education consultants, project managers, software engineers, and flight attendants, highlighting how they leveraged their teaching experience. Brown also offers practical advice on identifying transferable skills and suggests a weekend career change accelerator program for teachers, aiming to help them confidently navigate career transitions.
Takeaways
- 😀 Transferable skills from teaching can open doors to alternative careers without extensive additional study.
- 🏢 The corporate world, not-for-profit sector, and public sector are potential areas where teachers can apply their skills.
- 💼 Examples include transitioning from curriculum design in education to training and development roles.
- 📈 Project management skills, often utilized in organizing school events, can be highlighted for roles outside of teaching.
- 💡 A teacher's ability to learn quickly and adapt, as showcased by a former teacher turned software engineer, is highly valued in tech industries.
- 🔧 Side hustles and short courses can demonstrate skills and commitment, aiding career transitions.
- 🗣️ Communication and relationship-building skills from teaching can translate well into roles like real estate agent or flight attendant.
- 🎓 Some careers, like real estate agent, may require specific qualifications, but these are often shorter and more focused than traditional degrees.
- 🔗 LinkedIn profiles can be leveraged to showcase transferable skills and experiences relevant to new career paths.
- 🚀 Career coaches, like Karalyn Brown, offer resources and programs to help teachers identify their transferable skills and accelerate career changes.
Q & A
What is the main challenge teachers face when considering a career change according to the video?
-The main challenge teachers face when considering a career change is not knowing their transferable skills and how to apply them outside the classroom.
What is the role of Karalyn Brown in the video?
-Karalyn Brown is a Career Coach who has helped many teachers change their careers and get new jobs both inside and outside of the classroom.
What does the term 'transferable skills' refer to in the context of the video?
-In the context of the video, 'transferable skills' refers to the skills that teachers have developed in their profession which can be applied to other careers outside of teaching.
How does the video suggest teachers can find alternative careers that pay as well as or better than teaching?
-The video suggests that teachers can find alternative careers by identifying their transferable skills and applying them in the corporate, not-for-profit, or public sectors.
What is the significance of the real-life examples provided in the video?
-The real-life examples provided in the video are significant because they demonstrate how teachers have successfully transitioned into different careers using their transferable skills without committing to years of additional study.
What is the role of LinkedIn in the video's discussion about career change?
-LinkedIn is used in the video as a platform to find examples of teachers who have changed their careers and to analyze the transferable skills they have taken into their next career.
What is the importance of TS's role as an education consultant in the context of the video?
-TS's role as an education consultant is important because it illustrates how curriculum design skills gained as a teacher can be directly applied to develop and deliver training modules in a corporate setting.
How does J.A.'s transition from teaching to project and change management highlight the value of transferable skills?
-J.A.'s transition highlights the value of transferable skills by showing how leadership and management of information systems in a school setting can be leveraged to become a project manager implementing new technologies in schools.
What advice does the video give for teachers looking to showcase their project management skills?
-The video advises teachers to describe any organized events or initiatives at school with a start and endpoint as projects on their CV, detailing the purpose, actions, tools used, and impact to showcase project management skills.
How does the video suggest that teachers can highlight their skills in the tech industry?
-The video suggests that teachers can highlight their skills in the tech industry by showcasing their ability to learn quickly, adapt, and solve problems systematically and logically, as demonstrated by the example of a teacher turned software engineer.
What unique transferable skills does the video suggest a teacher might bring to a role as a flight attendant?
-The video suggests that a teacher might bring highly developed communication skills, the ability to remain calm under pressure, and the ability to manage groups in a closed environment to a role as a flight attendant.
What career change does the video mention that involves relationship building skills with both children and adults?
-The video mentions a career change to real estate agent, where the individual has applied their relationship building skills with children (students) to building relationships with adults (clients).
What resource does Karalyn Brown offer for teachers looking to change their careers?
-Karalyn Brown offers a weekend career change accelerator specifically for teachers, which is designed to help them confidently take the steps needed to change their careers.
Outlines
👩🏫 Transitioning from Teaching to Other Careers
Karalyn Brown, a Career Coach, introduces the video by addressing teachers who are considering a career change. She emphasizes the importance of recognizing one's transferable skills from teaching that can be applied to alternative careers. Karalyn shares her experience in helping teachers find new jobs both inside and outside the classroom, suggesting that it's possible to leverage teaching skills in corporate, not-for-profit, or public sectors. She promises to showcase real-life examples of teachers who have successfully transitioned to different roles, highlighting their transferable skills and the additional qualifications they may have pursued after their career change. The video aims to inspire and provide guidance on how to identify and apply these skills for a career shift.
🔍 Real-Life Career Transitions and Skills Application
The second paragraph delves into real-life examples of teachers who have transitioned into various careers. TS, who moved from teaching to a training and development role in Australia, is highlighted for utilizing curriculum design skills in her new role. J.A.'s shift from an assistant principal to a project and change manager is discussed, emphasizing how her experience in managing information systems was transferable. The video suggests that any organized school event can be framed as a project on a CV, showcasing project management skills. Another example is a teacher turned software engineer, who leveraged his analytical skills and coding side hustles to change careers. The paragraph also mentions a teacher who became a flight attendant, likely utilizing communication and calmness under pressure. Lastly, a teacher's transition to real estate is attributed to relationship-building and communication skills. The video concludes with an offer for a weekend career change accelerator program for teachers, aimed at helping them confidently navigate a career change.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Transferable Skills
💡Career Coach
💡Corporate World
💡Project Management
💡LinkedIn Profile
💡Education Consultant
💡Not-for-Profit Sector
💡Public Sector
💡Side Hustles
💡Real Estate Agent
💡Career Change Accelerator
Highlights
Teachers can leverage their transferable skills for alternative careers outside the classroom.
Career Coach Karalyn Brown helps teachers transition to new jobs using their existing skills.
It's possible to apply classroom skills in corporate, not-for-profit, or public sectors.
TS transitioned from teaching to a role in education consulting and training development.
TS utilized curriculum design skills for training modules and customized learning events.
J.A moved from assistant principal to a project and change manager role.
J.A's project management skills were highlighted through her leadership in curriculum and technology.
No formal qualifications are always required; side hustles and projects can demonstrate skills.
NO became a software engineer by showcasing coding side hustles and an analytical background.
SDW's dual role as a teacher and flight attendant suggests strong communication and calm under pressure.
ME transitioned to real estate by applying relationship building and communication skills.
Real estate agents in New Zealand need a certificate, which ME obtained after career change.
Karalyn offers a weekend career change accelerator for teachers to confidently change careers.
The video provides practical examples of teachers who have successfully changed careers.
Teachers are encouraged to identify their transferable skills to apply for non-teaching roles.
The video concludes with an invitation to learn more about career change resources for teachers.
Transcripts
If you're a teacher and you want to get out of the classroom one of the things that can
keep you stuck in the classroom is not knowing your transferable skills. What's an alternative
career that you can have outside of the classroom with the skills that you've already developed as
a teacher? What jobs pay the same or even more than what you earn now without you actually having
to commit to years and years of extra study? If this is you please watch this video. Hi my name
is Karalyn Brown and I'm a Career Coach and I've helped many teachers change their career and get
fantastic new jobs both inside and outside of the classroom. I'm making this video to show you that
it really is possible to take what you've done in the classroom and apply it in the corporate
world in the not-for-profit sector or in the public sector. Hopefully by the end of this
video you'll have some better ideas about what your transferable skills are and the confidence
that you can apply these outside of the school environment because I'm going to show you some
people who've done exactly that. They've worked out their transferable skills and they've changed
their careers. But make sure you watch to the end of this video because I've got something
to share with you that will help you identify your transferable skills and fast track your
career change. So let's get into it shall we. So I went looking on LinkedIn to see if I could
find teachers who changed their careers into doing something interesting. I looked at the
transferable skills that they would have taken into their next career. I also looked at whether
they would have done any study to help them make that move. Now these are real life examples as
we speak. I'm sure as a teacher you'll appreciate that I'm not going to talk fluffy theory. So let's
meet the five people I found. Meet TS has gone from teaching in the UK and Malaysia to training
and development in Australia. Let's take a look at her transferable skills. The first role outside
of the classroom was as education consultant for Electro board and while she doesn't actually state
what she did in teaching my assessment is that she directly used her curriculum design skills
that she gained as a teacher to develop and deliver a range of targeted training modules
and designing customized learning events and strategies. After this two years stint she
went on to more implementation roles including training teachers on new classroom technology
for the New South Wales Department of Education and Community. Now the thing to note about TS is
that she's done her qualifications after she made the move. She's done her prince two in project
management and Certificate 4 in training and assessment when she's been well into her second
job outside of teaching. Now the next person I want you to read is J.A who's gone from teaching
to become a project and change manager. So you can see on her LinkedIn profile that a primary focus
of her role as assistant principal was and here's what she says: my role was focused primarily on
leadership and management of information systems in support of the curriculum management of the
school. Then she's become a project manager for the Catholic Education body implementing
new technologies in school. So let's take a look at what formal qualifications she has. She moved
out of the school environment in May 2006 and in 2007 she's done a graduate diploma in organization
communication. That is she started that after she started her new job. Now here's a dirty little
secret about project management. If you think this might be a career for you, you can think
of anything that you've organized at school that has a start point and an endpoint as a project
and describe this as a project on your CV. So I'm talking about things like if you've organized a
school excursion, if you've organized a community day, if you've organized a new curriculum,
if you've supported technology rollouts, or you've helped train other teachers in a particular skill,
employers will look upon this seriously as a project and that you've demonstrated project
management skills if you write it up like this. Describe the purpose of the project, describe the
actions that you took to organize the project, Describe the tools that you use and describe the
impact of the project and then suddenly you've got a project management example that can go on your
cv. Let's now meet no who's gone from teaching to become a software engineer he's made a really
interesting career so no describes himself as a former teacher turned software engineer. Looking
at his LinkedIn profile he doesn't have a degree in software engineering. He's done a short course
boot camping coding with hack reactor and he does have an analytical bent. He studied a Bachelor of
Science in economics and he's taught economics at high school. He's made the change into full-time
coding as a software engineer by highlighting his coding side hustles on his LinkedIn profile. But
if you look at this he hasn't spent years and years on these side hustles. He spent only five
months on these projects. I love what he said he here. I don't take pride in my expertise in any
particular subject matter but in my capacity to learn quickly and adapt something that has proven
far more valuable to me in the ever-changing world of tech. I love solving problems that
require systematic and logical approach and relish opportunities to create eloquent solutions to
daily problems. In coding or software engineering if you can show your interests and skills in this,
that holds far more weight to employers than any formal qualifications. Now I love this next
example meet sdw who's currently a teacher and a flight attendant. It doesn't specifically state
on her LinkedIn profile the transferable skills she's taken between her two jobs,
but if I was to take an educated guess I'd say from teaching to flight attending should have
demonstrated a highly developed communication skills, an ability to remain calm under
pressure and herd crazy cats in a closed environment. And just one last thing here,
I can't see any any qualifications she would have done to become a flight attendant on her LinkedIn
profile. So let's meet me who's gone from being a teacher and having a long career as a teacher
to becoming a real estate agent. He said he's taken his relationship building skills with
small humans and applied them to bigger ones in his new career in real estate. I'm sure also that
his big classroom presence and communication skills has helped him with sales presentations
and he's learned to become a great negotiator navigating between parents teachers and students.
Qualification wise he hasn't listed these on his LinkedIn profile however to actually become a real
estate agent in New Zealand where he's from you do need to complete a certificate it takes 17 weeks
or all of four months to do. So I hope you can see that there are plenty of ways that you can
use the skills that you've developed in teaching in a real range of careers outside the classroom.
Now you're probably watching this and thinking that's great Karalyn how do I apply this to me.
How do I work out what my transferable skills are and the type of career that I could enjoy
outside teaching and even if I do know this how can I convince an employer that I really want to
change my career and I have those transferable skills? If this is you I've got something for
you. I'm going to be offering a weekend career change accelerator specifically for teachers.
In just one weekend you'll go from being confused to confidently taking the steps that you need to
take to change your career and actually finally making that career change happen. So if you'd
like more information about this I've put a link in the description below so please do go and check
it out. And if you like this video, please give it the thumbs up. If you like this video and you want
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