The Devlin Peck Podcast

You've landed an interview, but how can you make sure to impress? Joanna Cappuccilli joins the podcast with interview strategies to help you bring your best self to the table. 

Award-winning instructional designer Ashley Chiasson answers your questions about eLearning and instructional design careers. She discusses freelancing, portfolio-building, Storyline, working for a large compliance company, and much more.

Get an inside look at how hiring manager Tara Coulson decides which instructional designers will join her team at Amazon AWS. She shares what's really important in a resume and portfolio, and reveals how IDs can stand out in the job market.

How can you stand out to recruiters and hiring managers? In this Q&A, recruiter Max Levasseur tells us what he looks for in his role at Activision Blizzard.

Whether you're trying to break into the gaming industry or you just want to land more interviews, these answers and insights will help you move forward.

What's it like to lead a team of instructional designers? What do ID managers look for in a portfolio? In this Q&A session, Melissa Milloway from Amazon shares her experiences as an LXD manager in a large company. 

She reveals what stands out in a portfolio, the realities of working with SMEs, and how her LXD team tackles everyday projects. 

Are you burnt out on teaching, but also hesitant to leave it all and jump into instructional design? Sean Anderson could relate. But he decided to take a huge leap of faith, quit his teaching job, and pursue instructional design. In this Q&A session, he tells us how he was able to do it so quickly (just a few months!), and he shares some actionable tips that will help you do the same.

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Connect with Sean on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/seananderson10/

If you’re familiar with instructional design-related learning theories like behaviorism, constructivism, cognitivism, etc., you may still be left questioning: “but how do people really learn?”

Nick Shackleton-Jones has established himself as a leader in the L&D space and has revolutionized the way that instructional designers do their jobs.

In this Q&A, he discusses how people learn and argues that we don't remember exactly what happens to us...we just remember our reactions to those events, and then we recreate memories based on our feelings.

That means the first step to helping someone learn is getting someone to care.

Follow along as we explore Nick's model as well as actionable steps that you can take to implement it in your own learning design.

Visit Nick’s website: https://shackleton-consulting.com/

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Would you like to transition out of academia or the classroom into corporate instructional designer? In this interactive Q&A session, we chat with Joe Stubenrauch about how he transitioned from tenured history professor to curriculum designer at Amazon Web Services in six months' time.

This is a great session not only for people who are trying to transition from academia or the classroom to instructional design, but also for anyone who is trying to transition to high-tech instructional design more generally.

Joe's Website: https://www.joestuben.com/

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If you’re intimated by all the theories, models, and principles involved in instructional design and don’t know where to start, then this episode is for you!

We know that instructional design is more than eLearning development, but what else does it entail?

We can learn the models and theories like ADDIE, SAM, and Gagne's Events, but there's more to it than that...right?

Right! While there’s definitely a lot involved in regards to the learning science, multiple models of design, the types of evaluation you might use, and various concepts and principles, it doesn’t have to be complicated.

If you’re looking for a clear outline or overview of what instructional design entails and how you can sift through all the theories that have built this field into what it is, be sure to follow along!

Hop on a call with our team to discuss your current ID challenges, questions, and goals, and we'll help you move forward in your instructional design journey.

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Would you like to transition out of the classroom and into a corporate instructional design role?

In this Q&A session, we talk with Joanna Cappuccilli about how she transitioned from full-time teacher to full-time curriculum developer at Amazon Web Services, as well as the steps she took to get there.

Joanna and I discuss how developing a portfolio, networking effectively, and preparing extensively for interviews led to her successfully landing a tech role.

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