Career Advice
Career experts Annabelle Reitman and Debora Humphreys share their insight on getting into the workplace learning and development profession. For eight months these experts heard from you and answered questions to make your career success a reality.
August
Topic 1 Career change from automotive industry to customer relations training
Topic 2: Getting started in training/human resource management
Topic 3: Career change from law to performance development, facilitation, & conflict resolution
Topic 4: Leveraging presentation and business development skills
Topic 5: Graduate school choices for entering the training field
Topic 6: Applying MIS degree to proprietary software training opportunities
Topic 7: Building on military and e-commerce background for leadership opportunities
June/July
Topic 1: HRM in the healthcare industry
Topic 2: T&D headhunters
Topic 3: Merits of second masters degree in HRD
Topic 4: Recent graduate: work experience & advanced education options
Topic 5: HR/OD certifications or graduate programs
Topic 6: Career change: social services/retail to HR
Topic 7: Career change: education to training
Topic 8: Job search strategies in training/OD
May
Topic 1: Healthcare & OD/management development
Topic 2: Career change: education to corporate training
Topic 3: Breaking into distance learning/ISD & teaching
Topic 4: Getting started in training/OD
Topic 5: Career change: sales engineer to training/education
Topic 6: Moving from internal consulting to director/sr. manager
Topic 7: Training certifications
Topic 8: Career change: higher education to training
Topic 9: Obtaining an entry-level consultant position
Topic 10: Developing a resume with military experience for corporate HRD
Topic 11: Professional shift: benefits & policies to T&D
Topic 12: From stay-at-home mom to learning specialist
April
Topic 1: Career change from education to training/ISD
Topic 2: Info about the training field and ISD for jewelry marketing
Topic 3: Entering HRD with an MA interdisciplinary degree
Topic 4: Entering T&D with little experience
Topic 5: Planning to move into freelance design
Topic 6: Career change from management to T&D
Topic 7: Career change to T&D/OD
Topic 8: Shift from Platform training to T&D and job search resources
Topic 9: Career change from Navy to HR/T&D
Topic 10: Relocation & parttime T&D work
March
Topic 1: Online MA adult education programs
Topic 2: Transitioning into new industry & field
Topic 3: Software training
Topic 4: Training: Transitioning from nonprofit to private sector
Topic 5: Preparing for facilitation
Topic 6: Career change from accounting/finance to training
February
Topic 1: Working for a training consulting organization
Topic 2: Teaching HRM/leadership/communications
Topic 3: Professional shift: From internal consultant to outside contractor
Topic 4: Entering training without experience
Topic 5: English as a second language trainer
Topic 6: Government retiree seeking career change to training/HRD
Topic 7: Marketing yourself as a trainer
Topic 8: Transition from banking to corporate training
Topic 9: Listing of training/HRD job recruiters
Topic 10: Entering training/HRD after graduation
Topic 11: Shift from HR assistant to employee T&D department
Topic 12: Changing careers to T&D later in life
January
Topic 1: Transition: From banking to corporate training
Topic 2: Teaching HRM/leadership/communications
Topic 3: Building trainer's credentials without a college degree
Topic 4: Transitioning from educational programming to corporate training