Career Paths and Pivots for Instruction Designers
What are typical career paths and role progression for instruction designers (ID)? How possible are career pivots? These are some crucial questions to ponder if you are thinking of having a career as an ID.
In this blog, I will shed some knowledge on the prospective career paths and pivots for an instruction designer.
Instruction designers use the science of learning to create content, design its look and feel, organize topics, and add interactivity to achieve business goals. As an instruction designer, one acquires and develops learning design, teaching, analysis, and management skills. Thus, a career in instruction design also prepares you for several exciting career prospects. Let’s learn more about some of these career paths and pivots below.
If you love instruction design and want to continue to stay in this field, you can take either a design-focused career path or a management-focused career path.
Learning Design Career Path
If you love to explore new ways of learning and prefer working with Instruction Design tools, this career path is for you!
In a normal career progression on learning design career path, you start as an instruction designer or L&D Specialist, transition to Senior ID, then to Principal ID or Learning…
