Skip's Edtech Jobs: January 13, 2024

Thank you for reading the EdSkipper, Skip’s newsletter about skipping from education to education-aligned careers. Every Saturday, I send out a list of curated remote jobs. Premium subscribers receive access to additional jobs in the Edskipper database and two additional emails a month with advice to help you apply more competitively.

While the new year has just brought the first edtech layoffs, it’s also bringing robust hiring. I’ve found some wonderful jobs this week, including some six figure job positions looking for educators and or k-12 admin expertise.

~I hope you find some fantastic jobs to apply to this weekend,
Chelsea

Last Week’s Poll: Location-Specific Job Board?

I’ve twice tried to add location-specific jobs to the job board. Both times I’ve abandoned it because it is uber time consuming on my backend (sourcing from enough states, adding them to the database, writing summaries). This most recent time around, I was testing whether companies would be more likely to pay to post these roles than for roles available nationwide (where recruiters report they are getting too many applicants to easily sort through).

Fun fact about the job board: even though I have a lovely set-up for companies to pay, it’s very rare that any of them actually buy a post. (This wasn’t unexpected: you may have seen that Daphne Gomez recently shuttered her job board for, if you read between the lines, similar reasons.) So I actively source 99% of the jobs you see. Demand-side economics in action!

But I wanted to test if location-specific jobs could be a revenue generator.

And was it?

That’s would be a big fat nope! (I didn’t sell a single post!!!)

But y’all continue to find it helpful. And I hear you. I’m tired too of clicking on a job that says, ‘national’ only to find out that they mean the 16 states where they’ve set up tax entities and not the 34 other states we typically use the word ‘national’ to reference. And I often hear that you miss a job that is in your state and had half the applicants of the national ones…

So I’ve decided on a temporary solution that I hope will strike a good balance: I’ll continue sharing really great location-specific roles — but only here in the newsletter. This makes it a lot easier for me but hopefully still brings some competitive roles to your attention.

Why is this a temporary solution, you ask? Well, for that you’ll just have to stay tuned. Exciting plans for the first half of the year that should allow me to reboot the location-specific jobs and more! ;-)

This Week’s Poll

FULL-TIME JOBS

These are only some of the jobs I’ve posted this week! View all the remote jobs.