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I Audited My Course. Here's What Happened to the Educators Who Took It.
I did something this month I should have done a long time ago.
I checked my numbers.
Thursday morning I shared the headline in a LinkedIn post. This is the full version, with my work shown... how I counted, the rules I counted by, how fast people moved, and where they went.
How I counted
I talk...
by Stephanie Yesil —
Oct 03, 2026
career change accelerator
course outcomes
former teachers
jobs for former teachers
teacher career change
teacher to corporate
Customer Success or Implementation? Here's How to Choose
Two job titles most educators can't tell apart.
Customer Success. Implementation.
Same software. Same customers. Sometimes the same team. In my LinkedIn post Tuesday, I asked one question to split them:
What would you rather do in your next job: keep existing customers successful for years, OR t...
by Stephanie Yesil —
Sep 26, 2026
career change
customer success
edtech jobs
former teachers
implementation
Where I Would Look for Jobs This Fall
Every September I get the same question. If YOU were job searching right now, where would you look?
Fair. So I went and got the answer.
Over the last two weeks I went through 2,265 current job postings. I was hunting for the areas I'd actually tell a friend to search this fall. Openings that exi...
by Stephanie Yesil —
Sep 19, 2026
career change for teachers
construction safety jobs
edtech careers
elevated careers society
implementation specialist
industries hiring former teachers
jobs for former educators
teacher transition
where to look for jobs
The 10-Minute Resume Test: Can I Tell What You Were Responsible For?
Okay. Pull up your resume.
I want you to look at it with me for 10 minutes. If you rewrote a bullet after my LinkedIn post Tuesday night, keep that one open. It gets tested today.
I've read 500 educator resumes since spring, and I keep running into the same problem. I can tell the person worked ...
by Stephanie Yesil —
Sep 12, 2026
7 Corporate Roles You Might Be Scrolling Right Past
Let me save you a whole lot of scrolling.
Some corporate job titles sound like they were assembled by pulling words out of a hat. Then you open the posting and think, “Wait. I know this work.”
In my last JOBS, JOBS, JOBS! source set, I sorted 1,467 listings. Across my last two weeks of reading p...
by Stephanie Yesil —
Sep 05, 2026
corporate careers
implementation
job search
training
Some of the best job leads are hiding here.
The Challenge We're Solving Today
Some of the best job leads I’m seeing right now are coming from companies teachers usually overlook.
I was going through fresh openings this week and found a Customer Service Instructional Designer at Chewy. Then a Learning & Development Specialist at Reddy Ice....
Aug 29, 2026
Before You Learn AI, Learn the Job
You have no idea.
I mean that literally.
You have no idea what the job you’re applying for actually exists to accomplish. And I think that is making your career change much harder than it needs to be.
(Okay... maybe not you personally, but a ton of career changers, for sure.)
I spend a LOT of ti...
Aug 22, 2026
Why You’re Qualified But Still Not Getting Interviews
I want you to try something before you decide you need another certification or degree to get noticed by hiring teams.
Open your resume and search for these words:
supportedhelpedassistedcollaboratedpartneredcontributed
Then, every time you find one, ask yourself:
What was I actually responsible...
Aug 15, 2026
"I'm a teacher. What else can I do?" Stop asking AI this.
Okay. Be honest with me.
At some point you typed this into ChatGPT: "I'm a teacher. What else can I do?"
And it gave you a list. Instructional designer. Corporate trainer. Project coordinator. Customer success.
You felt excited...for about ten minutes.
Then it hit you. That same list would come ...
Aug 08, 2026
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“You’re going to be okay.”
That is one of my favorite things my dad has ever said to me.
He sai...
Aug 01, 2026
There’s a better way to say “I’m passionate about helping people."
You're probably not writing “I’m passionate about helping people” in the middle of your resume.
You're writing it the top of your professional summary or in the first lines of your LinkedIn About section.
That makes total sense. You want the person reading your profile to know the #1 thing that ...
Jul 25, 2026
“I Taught Students” Is Not Enough
If most of your experience happened only between you and your students, you're seriously undermining your own career change.
Sure, you've taught students.Â
Duh.
Created curriculum.
Obviously.Â
Updated resources. Managed behavior. Tracked academic progress.
That all takes skill. Absolutely, 1000...
Jul 18, 2026