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What I wish I knew before I got my first adjunct teaching position as an IT instructor. So in this video, what I wanted to do is just share with you. One of the major things that I really wish I knew and understood before I took my first position as an adjunct instructor. I think that teaching at colleges, universities, community colleges is a wonderful way to break into teaching. And I am very thankful to have had the opportunity that somebody gave me that opportunity. And as I move forward in my career in higher education, was able to give so many people their first chance at teaching at the university level, college level, vocational school level, etc. And so what I wanted to do, though, is just share with you to sort of reflect back a little bit on my own career and share with you what I just kind of wish I knew. And there's one big day, there's a lot of things that I wish that I knew. But there's  I guess one big thing. So I guess first let's go back a little bit. 

So I always knew I was going to be a teacher, I've always enjoyed teaching, I love working with people and helping them achieve their goals. I first my first teaching gig was in 2000, I actually became a certified flight instructor, and you taught adults how to fly. I also taught Junior Junior Achievement, and I taught you know, second graders about, you know, finance, economics, that kind of stuff. And that was those are really sort of my first gigs in teaching. actually think flight instructing came a little bit later in 2002. And then I also started teaching online in 2013, I started working with educators, for teachers who were bringing technology into the classroom. 

And so, you know, obviously using technology to teach online, that was a fantastic thing to be able to do and bring all these things together. And then I started my PhD in 2010. And I completed that in 2014, with a goal that I wanted to keep progressing in my career in education, what I really wanted to do was I really wanted to start my own school, I wanted to start a school that would help people advance their technology careers earn a very good income, and to be able to change their lives. And you know, I've always been very passionate about helping people really just change their financial situation. And oftentimes, you know, having a larger income or higher income really does help level up their financial situation. There's other things that obviously go into people's finances. But that is just one way that I, I know that I can help people. And so I actually had tried starting my own school back in like, 2006 2007 timeframe.

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And I realized how much work that goes into starting a school. And I really realized that I could at that time with my skill set and the things that that I knew how to do, I could have a bigger impact by working within the school systems. So working within existing schools, I, you know,

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What I wish I knew before I got my first adjunct teaching position as an IT instructor. So in this video, what I wanted to do is just share with you. One of the major things that I really wish I knew and understood before I took my first position as an adjunct instructor. I think that teaching at colleges, universities, community colleges is a wonderful way to break into teaching. And I am very thankful to have had the opportunity that somebody gave me that opportunity. And as I move forward in my career in higher education, was able to give so many people their first chance at teaching at the university level, college level, vocational school level, etc. And so what I wanted to do, though, is just share with you to sort of reflect back a little bit on my own career and share with you what I just kind of wish I knew. And there's one big day, there's a lot of things that I wish that I knew. But there's  I guess one big thing. So I guess first let's go back a little bit. 

So I always knew I was going to be a teacher, I've always enjoyed teaching, I love working with people and helping them achieve their goals. I first my first teaching gig was in 2000, I actually became a certified flight instructor, and you taught adults how to fly. I also taught Junior Junior Achievement, and I taught you know, second graders about, you know, finance, economics, that kind of stuff. And that was those are really sort of my first gigs in teaching. actually think flight instructing came a little bit later in 2002. And then I also started teaching online in 2013, I started working with educators, for teachers who were bringing technology into the classroom. 

And so, you know, obviously using technology to teach online, that was a fantastic thing to be able to do and bring all these things together. And then I started my PhD in 2010. And I completed that in 2014, with a goal that I wanted to keep progressing in my career in education, what I really wanted to do was I really wanted to start my own school, I wanted to start a school that would help people advance their technology careers earn a very good income, and to be able to change their lives. And you know, I've always been very passionate about helping people really just change their financial situation. And oftentimes, you know, having a larger income or higher income really does help level up their financial situation. There's other things that obviously go into people's finances. But that is just one way that I, I know that I can help people. And so I actually had tried starting my own school back in like, 2006 2007 timeframe.

 

And I realized how much work that goes into starting a school. And I really realized that I could at that time with my skill set and the things that that I knew how to do, I could have a bigger impact by working within the school systems. So working within existing schools, I, you know, started working with schools that were struggling, that were struggling financially, that were struggling with outcomes, that kind of thing. And so I was able to, you know, just have have a bigger impact by working in existing sc...

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Think about your cybersecurity career roadmap. 

So in this video, I'm going to share with you a couple of different resources that you can use to help plan out your cybersecurity career or help plan out the cybersecurity career of your students. So this works very well for entry level people that are coming in to cybersecurity is as as an entry level employee. 

But this also works very well for people that they're working towards, you know, upper management, senior management, the executive level as well. So these are some great resources that you can use for yourself and for your students to help them plan out their cybersecurity careers. So I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen with you right now. And right here is the first resource that I want to share with you, it is called let's see that the map, let's see and move myself out of the way. 

So map of cyber security domains by Henry Yang, and he released this, this is where I'm rev three, that one. This is like think the third version, obviously, it's third version of it, and he keeps us updated. It's really great. It's a way to show all the different cybersecurity domains. So when you're talking about cybersecurity careers, it's not necessarily just I'm going to go into cybersecurity. There's one pathway to it, right? 

There's there's one certification, there's one degree you need. It's It's It's not a linear pathway. And I liken it to the medical profession where the healthcare profession where people don't necessarily say I'm going to go into healthcare, well, what aspect of healthcare you're going to go into? Are you going to go into billing and coding? Are you going to go into insurance? Are you going to be a medical assistant? Excuse me a medical assistant? Are you going to be an RN and nurse practitioner? Are you going to be a surgeon? You know, a general practitioner, what is it that you're going to do? Right? So cybersecurity has quickly become the same way. There's a lot of different opportunities here in cybersecurity. And this cybersecurity domain map really shows a good solid, you know, all the different domains within cybersecurity. So you can start here, you can just you find sort of the one in the center, I guess, and it kind of branches off from there. 

So you've got security operations, career development, and user education, threat, intelligence, governance risk, you frameworks and standards that would might be compliance, application security, security architecture. So what I would suggest doing is find an area so if you already work within cybersecurity, and or your students already work within cyber security, and they want to advance their career, then you can come and look up, what is it that you already know how to do? What is it that your students already know how to do? And you can sort of branch out and go, Okay, well, maybe I need to get some skills in this area,

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Think about your cybersecurity career roadmap. 

So in this video, I'm going to share with you a couple of different resources that you can use to help plan out your cybersecurity career or help plan out the cybersecurity career of your students. So this works very well for entry level people that are coming in to cybersecurity is as as an entry level employee. 

But this also works very well for people that they're working towards, you know, upper management, senior management, the executive level as well. So these are some great resources that you can use for yourself and for your students to help them plan out their cybersecurity careers. So I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen with you right now. And right here is the first resource that I want to share with you, it is called let's see that the map, let's see and move myself out of the way. 

So map of cyber security domains by Henry Yang, and he released this, this is where I'm rev three, that one. This is like think the third version, obviously, it's third version of it, and he keeps us updated. It's really great. It's a way to show all the different cybersecurity domains. So when you're talking about cybersecurity careers, it's not necessarily just I'm going to go into cybersecurity. There's one pathway to it, right? 

There's there's one certification, there's one degree you need. It's It's It's not a linear pathway. And I liken it to the medical profession where the healthcare profession where people don't necessarily say I'm going to go into healthcare, well, what aspect of healthcare you're going to go into? Are you going to go into billing and coding? Are you going to go into insurance? Are you going to be a medical assistant? Excuse me a medical assistant? Are you going to be an RN and nurse practitioner? Are you going to be a surgeon? You know, a general practitioner, what is it that you're going to do? Right? So cybersecurity has quickly become the same way. There's a lot of different opportunities here in cybersecurity. And this cybersecurity domain map really shows a good solid, you know, all the different domains within cybersecurity. So you can start here, you can just you find sort of the one in the center, I guess, and it kind of branches off from there. 

So you've got security operations, career development, and user education, threat, intelligence, governance risk, you frameworks and standards that would might be compliance, application security, security architecture. So what I would suggest doing is find an area so if you already work within cybersecurity,

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So in this video, I'm going to share with you some of my tips as a former higher education administrator working in both colleges, universities, vocational schools, community colleges, etc. and how you can use LinkedIn to find different online teaching positions specific to it and the technology professions. So I wrote a blog post last week that really shared some of my tips for you. 

And in this video, I'm going to give you an extra special tip that's not included in the blog post. But I want to make sure to include it because I think it's something that's important. So listen all the way to the end to hear that final tip, it's not included in a blog post. 

So the first is to really create a comprehensive LinkedIn profile that complements your resume and highlights all of your existing training and education experience. So in your profile, you want to make sure that you are including any types of training that you have done in the past, whether they are part of your paid positions, or they might be part of volunteer positions as well. So that when you're trying to break into teaching, either online or face to face, having some sort of training experience, really is really helpful. 

Whether or not it's paid, it doesn't necessarily matter whether or not it's paid. But it does help to show that you're interested in this kind of work that you have some experience doing this kind of stuff that you have experience working with people who are trying to achieve a particular goal. So some things that you might want to consider highlighting with regards to your training experience that you may already have is that if you are you know currently working in it, or you worked at it in the past, and you've done, you've been part of a phase of a software rollout, and part of that software rollout plan, it usually comes a training plan that goes with that. So highlight any pieces of the training plan that you had a part of. 

So whether you put you planned out the training sessions, you determine who needed to be in them, you determine what the outcomes of those training sessions needed to be, you determined, you know if there were different types of training sessions that needed to be done based on work roles, things like that. It's not necessarily always just delivering the training session, there's a lot of planning that goes into coming up with the right training as a training plan for the right people in your place, or your place of work. 

So make sure you highlight that if you maybe you delivered a workshop for se...

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So in this video, I'm going to share with you some of my tips as a former higher education administrator working in both colleges, universities, vocational schools, community colleges, etc. and how you can use LinkedIn to find different online teaching positions specific to it and the technology professions. So I wrote a blog post last week that really shared some of my tips for you. 

And in this video, I'm going to give you an extra special tip that's not included in the blog post. But I want to make sure to include it because I think it's something that's important. So listen all the way to the end to hear that final tip, it's not included in a blog post. 

So the first is to really create a comprehensive LinkedIn profile that complements your resume and highlights all of your existing training and education experience. So in your profile, you want to make sure that you are including any types of training that you have done in the past, whether they are part of your paid positions, or they might be part of volunteer positions as well. So that when you're trying to break into teaching, either online or face to face, having some sort of training experience, really is really helpful. 

Whether or not it's paid, it doesn't necessarily matter whether or not it's paid. But it does help to show that you're interested in this kind of work that you have some experience doing this kind of stuff that you have experience working with people who are trying to achieve a particular goal. So some things that you might want to consider highlighting with regards to your training experience that you may already have is that if you are you know currently working in it, or you worked at it in the past, and you've done, you've been part of a phase of a software rollout, and part of that software rollout plan, it usually comes a training plan that goes with that. So highlight any pieces of the training plan that you had a part of. 

So whether you put you planned out the training sessions, you determine who needed to be in them, you determine what the outcomes of those training sessions needed to be, you determined, you know if there were different types of training sessions that needed to be done based on work roles, things like that. It's not necessarily always just delivering the training session, there's a lot of planning that goes into coming up with the right training as a training plan for the right people in your place, or your place of work. 

So make sure you highlight that if you maybe you delivered a workshop for seniors, senior citizens, on how to use the internet, how to use Facebook, how to use email, how to stay safe online, how to,

So let's talk about the great resignation in tech.

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this morning, I watched a video that was put on YouTube by CNBC. And it was, it was it was titled, why Millennials are leaving six figure tech jobs. And it was a pretty well done video explaining sort of, you know, this great resignation, and that there are 40% of people this year in 2021, are considering leaving their positions for something else. And this seems to be big news to people.

And as somebody who has been a hiring manager in education for a long time, I would argue that this has been going on for a very long time. And I think it's just been brought to the forefront now people are actually paying attention to this. And it's not just millennials, it's Gen X and baby boomers two, that have been looking for a little bit more meaning in their lives. And I really just honestly think that the pandemic has really brought this to the forefront.

Alright. And here's the reason why. So over the last, you know, 1516 years, I've done a lot of hiring, and I've done a lot of hiring of technology professionals. And they're people who are, you know, in the, in many of the positions in which I'm hiring for, is I'm hiring people to become technology instructors, and whether they're in it, software development, even things like some of the trades, you know, some of the some of the very technical highly technical professions. A

nd so when I'm when I'm working with somebody, when I'm interviewing somebody who they have no teaching experience, no teaching background, they did not, they're not teaching at like a community college. They haven't taught any, like online classes as an adjunct instructor or anything like that. They're really looking for that first break into teaching. And I'll ask them, I'll say, Well, what is it that has piqued your interest about teaching? Why is it that you want to teach and the the overwhelming response that I get now you have to remember that people are, you know, they're in a job interview, they're hoping that I'm going to give them a job. But you know, so the, they'll frame it in this way that they'll say things like that they want to give back, and that they want to help form the next generation of technology professionals.

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But then when you start getting in to the, you know, the meat of what they're really saying, and in conversations, some of the other things, some of the other reasons come out, and oftentimes, it's that they're looking for a more stable schedule, they've got a family at home, they've got kids, they've got grandkids, they want to be around, they are completely over being on call, and, you know, being being at their employer's beck and call 20 473 65. Just because, you know, technology is, technology is running, you know, every day, all day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, your kid's birthday, like it's running all the time, right.

And so, um, you know, they're, they're, they're really more interested in having a more of a work life balance.

Another thing that I saw a lot were consultants who were tr...

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this morning, I watched a video that was put on YouTube by CNBC. And it was, it was it was titled, why Millennials are leaving six figure tech jobs. And it was a pretty well done video explaining sort of, you know, this great resignation, and that there are 40% of people this year in 2021, are considering leaving their positions for something else. And this seems to be big news to people.

And as somebody who has been a hiring manager in education for a long time, I would argue that this has been going on for a very long time. And I think it's just been brought to the forefront now people are actually paying attention to this. And it's not just millennials, it's Gen X and baby boomers two, that have been looking for a little bit more meaning in their lives. And I really just honestly think that the pandemic has really brought this to the forefront.

Alright. And here's the reason why. So over the last, you know, 1516 years, I've done a lot of hiring, and I've done a lot of hiring of technology professionals. And they're people who are, you know, in the, in many of the positions in which I'm hiring for, is I'm hiring people to become technology instructors, and whether they're in it, software development, even things like some of the trades, you know, some of the some of the very technical highly technical professions. A

nd so when I'm when I'm working with somebody, when I'm interviewing somebody who they have no teaching experience, no teaching background, they did not, they're not teaching at like a community college. They haven't taught any, like online classes as an adjunct instructor or anything like that. They're really looking for that first break into teaching. And I'll ask them, I'll say, Well, what is it that has piqued your interest about teaching? Why is it that you want to teach and the the overwhelming response that I get now you have to remember that people are, you know, they're in a job interview, they're hoping that I'm going to give them a job. But you know, so the, they'll frame it in this way that they'll say things like that they want to give back, and that they want to help form the next generation of technology professionals.

But then when you start getting in to the, you know, the meat of what they're really saying, and in conversations, some of the other things, some of the other reasons come out, and oftentimes, it's that they're looking for a more stable schedule, they've got a family at home, they've got kids, they've got grandkids, they want to be around, they are completely over being on call, and, you know, being being at their employer's beck and call 20 473 65. Just because, you know, technology is, technology is running, you know, every day, all day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, your kid's birthday, like it's running all the time, right.

And so, um, you know, they're, they're, they're really more interested in having a more of a work life balance.

Another thing that I saw a lot were consultants who were traveling, every you know, they get on an airplane, every Sunday night, they'd work on site, you know, Monday through Thursday, and then Thursday night or Friday morning, they're back on an airplane to come back home.

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How to teach it online without a degree.

So say you are interested in giving back and helping to develop the next generation of IT professionals, technology professionals, and you want to teach but you don't have a degree or you don't have a degree in it, or computer science or something like that. So most of the time, when a University College community college is looking for somebody to teach a particular course, oftentimes they're looking for somebody with a relevant degree. Generally, it'll be a graduate level degree, especially if you're teaching in a undergraduate bachelor's degree program.

And I did a previous video on you know, how you can, you know, set yourself up for getting online teaching positions, you know, you've got the degree, you've got the credentials, etc. But what happens when you don't have those credentials, what happens when, you know, maybe you are a very skilled individual, you're skilled network engineer, but you don't have a college degree. Or maybe you are currently working in cybersecurity, and you've got an English degree.

Alright. So there are some things that you can do. So first of all, some universities and colleges, community colleges, they can qualify you to teach a course based on your work experience. So if you think about how, you know there are certain maybe music musicians, famous musicians, famous artists, etc, that are able to teach at a university, and they may not necessarily have a degree, well, they're, they're being qualified based on their work experience. So there are some ways that you can still teach at a community college, or a university, that kind of thing.

But you can teach, you might want to look into teaching for IT Training companies, they fall outside of some of the accreditation requirements that you know, that institutes of higher education fall under. So if you look for your corporate training organizations, it training organizations, people that go out and do certification trainings, people that go out to do your trainings at at companies on site training, and even online training as well. So you can look for sort of that corporate training model that is looking to you where they were a company will come and hire you to teach their staff. So the other option that I really highly recommend is to build your own courses.

So just because you don't have the right credentials, to be able to teach in some other areas, or maybe you do have the right credentials to teach in some other areas, I firmly believe that you should develop your own courses, create a, you know, create a business around this, and I've spoken about this in previous videos is that to treat online teaching to treat your online teaching endeavor as a career, and there's going to be a lot of different ways that you're going to earn revenue in this in this business, or I said,

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How to teach it online without a degree.

So say you are interested in giving back and helping to develop the next generation of IT professionals, technology professionals, and you want to teach but you don't have a degree or you don't have a degree in it, or computer science or something like that. So most of the time, when a University College community college is looking for somebody to teach a particular course, oftentimes they're looking for somebody with a relevant degree. Generally, it'll be a graduate level degree, especially if you're teaching in a undergraduate bachelor's degree program.

And I did a previous video on you know, how you can, you know, set yourself up for getting online teaching positions, you know, you've got the degree, you've got the credentials, etc. But what happens when you don't have those credentials, what happens when, you know, maybe you are a very skilled individual, you're skilled network engineer, but you don't have a college degree. Or maybe you are currently working in cybersecurity, and you've got an English degree.

Alright. So there are some things that you can do. So first of all, some universities and colleges, community colleges, they can qualify you to teach a course based on your work experience. So if you think about how, you know there are certain maybe music musicians, famous musicians, famous artists, etc, that are able to teach at a university, and they may not necessarily have a degree, well, they're, they're being qualified based on their work experience. So there are some ways that you can still teach at a community college, or a university, that kind of thing.

But you can teach, you might want to look into teaching for IT Training companies, they fall outside of some of the accreditation requirements that you know, that institutes of higher education fall under. So if you look for your corporate training organizations, it training organizations, people that go out and do certification trainings, people that go out to do your trainings at at companies on site training, and even online training as well. So you can look for sort of that corporate training model that is looking to you where they were a company will come and hire you to teach their staff. So the other option that I really highly recommend is to build your own courses.

So just because you don't have the right credentials, to be able to teach in some other areas, or maybe you do have the right credentials to teach in some other areas, I firmly believe that you should develop your own courses, create a, you know, create a business around this, and I've spoken about this in previous videos is that to treat online teaching to treat your online teaching endeavor as a career, and there's going to be a lot of different ways that you're going to earn revenue in this in this business, or I said, treat his crew treated as your business, right. But there's going to be a lot of different ways that you're going to generate revenue out of this.

And so one of the ways you're going to do that is to build your own courses and sell them yourself. And you can do that in a couple of different ways. There are online learning marketplaces where people can go,