Skip's Edtech Jobs: May 10, 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 curated from 300+ companies each week. Premium subscribers receive access to all jobs in the Edskipper database and two additional emails a month with advice to help you apply more competitively.

I feel like it’s been a weird week. There’s all this energy and excitement around celebrating educators. It’s all well meaning and heartfelt. But it’s also not enough.

Happily, it seems to be coinciding with a second wind of edtech jobs hiring educators right now — in addition to the featured roles I share below, in the past week I’ve added about a dozen jobs looking for current educators. I saw a similar uptick in jobs looking for higher ed admin, though not as many. (The first wind for all these roles started back in February and slacked off by late April. At some point, I’ll do a graphic to illustrate educator hiring season but I want to follow the trend into the summer first!)

As always, I encourage you to check out the “relevant skills” tags too because many of you may have the right mix of skills they’re looking for — experience creating social media content for a youth audience, quant/qualitative research skills from your master’s, Spanish curriculum translation skills, and so forth.

~I hope you find some fantastic jobs to apply to this weekend that appreciate your teaching skills,
Chelsea

Last Week’s Poll

This was one of my most popular polls, and if you’re finding the application process mind numbing, you’re not the only one. It was a repeated emotion in the comments…

Most of you are spending a solid chunk of time tailoring resumes, writing cover letters, and filling out the short answer questions that many companies add to their application process. And then a few folks mentioned the inanity of having to re-enter all your information in different formats — not to mention wasted time. The short answers and cover letters take up most of people’s time — even when they have templates they’re pulling from.

Some of the folks who spend less time are applying to similar types of jobs and are not personalizing materials for each job. Usually it’s because they’ve made the decision that the payoff isn’t worth it when so many applications go completely unresponded to.

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