Advice from a former University Dean and Higher Education Vice President on How to put Together a Resume or CV for Your First Online Teaching Job in IT or Cybersecurity

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How to create your resume for your first online teaching position teaching it information security or any other technology related courses. 

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So in this video, I'm going to share with you some steps that you can take to put together a effective resume or CV for your first online teaching position. 

The first thing I always tell people to do is to really hone in on what it is that you're going to teach, what is it that you are a specialist at? What is it that you could walk into a class today, and teach the class without a whole lot of prep time? The reason I say that is because oftentimes, especially when you're brand new to teaching, you know, you look back at your own career and say, well, I've done this, I've done this, I've done this, you've done a lot of things, you've had a long and lengthy career. And now you're ready to give back and start helping to develop the next generation of IT professionals and infosec professionals, right. 

But in order for you to be able to teach some of those things, you're probably going to need a lot of prep time just because maybe it's been five years, maybe it's been 10 years since you've done some of these things. And so you got to kind of get it back into the forefront of your mind, right. So if you sit down and think about what are the things that I could sit down and I could teach a class on right now today, without a whole lot of prep time, just kind of read over the materials, look at the syllabus to see what we're teaching and in what order that kind of thing that really focus their focus there so that you don't burn yourself out. 

If you if you start teaching a course that you have to do a lot of prep time for for your first couple, you know, your first time teaching or your first couple of courses that you've taught, it's gonna burn you out. And that's the last thing we want to have happen is heavy, heavy burnout on teaching. So think about what it is that you are going to specialize in that you can really just walk into a class today and teach that particular class, okay. So make sure you highlight that on your resume. 

Your credentials really, really do matter when you are when you're trying to get into an institute of education that has accreditation requirements around it. So we're talking community colleges, vocational schools, universities, colleges, etc. So if there's any sort of accreditation around the program, there's going to be some credentialing requirements that the people who are teaching need to have. 

So for example, if you're teaching in a vocational program, and the are you're teaching a certification, so if you're teaching the security plus certification,