Jumpstart Your Instructional Design Career is a weekly instructional design podcast hosted by Jill Davidian, founder of Learning Strategy & Design. It covers becoming an instructional designer: portfolios, resumes, the job search, AI in instructional design, and how the career change really works.
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34: If Money and Time Have Held You Back From This Transition, Start Here
Jill Willian, an instructional design coach, guides aspiring IDs on overcoming financial and time constraints to build a compelling portfolio using Rise.
16 Jun 2026
33: Why Hiring Managers Reject Your Portfolio in 10 Seconds
You've put in the work on your portfolio, but are employers even making it past the first page? After reviewing portfolios from my community, I kept seeing the same mistakes come up over and over. In this episode, I'm sharing the top five things that cause hiring managers to close a portfolio within the first ten seconds so you can fix them before it costs you the job.
Top reasons to listen to the entire episode:
Find out the five most common portfolio mistakes that send hiring managers running, including the Storyline newbie mistake that immediately signals you're new to the software
Learn exactly which samples belong in a corporate ID portfolio and the five minimum pieces every portfolio needs
Discover why your portfolio is marketing, not just a collection of your work, and how that one shift changes everything about how you build it
Full Show Notes Here! (https://learningstrategyanddesign.com/podcast/why-hiring-managers-reject-your-portfolio-in-10-seconds/)
Resources and Links Mentioned:
Episode 27: What Needs to Be in Your ID Portfolio to Get Hired (https://learningstrategyanddesign.com/podcast/what-needs-to-be-in-your-id-portfolio-to-get-hired/)
Subscribe to Jumpstart Your ID Career on Substack (https://jumpstartyouridcareer.substack.com/)
Join the Jumpstart Your Instructional Design Career Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/jumpstartyouridcareer)
Connect with Jill
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(https://www.learningstrategyanddesign.com/)Thanks for joining us on the Jumpstart Your Instructional Design Career podcast! If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a rating and review to help us reach even more freedom seekers and aspiring instructional designers.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jumpstartyouridcareer.substack.com (https://jumpstartyouridcareer.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
9 Jun 2026
32: The 9-Week Summer Portfolio Plan for Aspiring IDs
Every summer, people say they're going to make progress on their instructional design transition, and then August comes and nothing happened. In this episode, I'm giving you the exact nine-week plan I would follow to learn Storyline and build a portfolio sample that actually impresses hiring managers. No more dabbling. No more overwhelm. Just a real plan.
Top reasons to listen to the entire episode:
Get the full nine-week breakdown for learning ID fundamentals, mastering Storyline basics and advanced features, and building a polished portfolio sample from scratch
Learn why scaffolding your learning, and getting feedback at two key checkpoints, is what separates a portfolio that wows from one that falls flat
Find out how to use AI as both a productivity tool and an accountability partner to stay on track all summer long
Full Show Notes Here! (https://learningstrategyanddesign.com/podcast/the-9-week-summer-portfolio-plan-for-aspiring-ids/)
Resources and Links Mentioned:
Sign-up for the Summer ID Roadmap Masterclass (https://learningstrategyanddesign.com/roadmap/)
Join the Articulate License Giveaway (https://sweepwidget.com/c/99637-ixd1sc5q)
Subscribe to Jumpstart Your ID Career on Substack (https://jumpstartyouridcareer.substack.com/)
Join the Jumpstart Your Instructional Design Career Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/jumpstartyouridcareer)
Connect with Jill
Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/jilldavidianidcoach/)
Jumpstart Your Instructional Design Career Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/jumpstartyouridcareer/?ref=share_group_link)
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jilldavidian)
Website
(https://www.learningstrategyanddesign.com/)Thanks for joining us on the Jumpstart Your Instructional Design Career podcast! If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a rating and review to help us reach even more freedom seekers and aspiring instructional designers.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jumpstartyouridcareer.substack.com (https://jumpstartyouridcareer.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
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34: If Money and Time Have Held You Back From This Transition, Start Here
Published 23 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I especially heard it in the last couple of weeks because it's hard to have to make that investment in the software where when you don't need it for that long, but you just need it to be able to create a sample, right? And then the other one is time, where we've got busy lives, we've got all kinds of things going on, we've got potentially we have kids and families and jobs and hobbies and activities and all kinds of things happening and vacations and things like that and to be able to take a big chunk of time to dedicate to this while you're also working while you're also living your life and getting a lot of other things done just feels really overwhelming right so those are two things that come up a lot and I completely understand both of them and they're very valid and so what I want to talk about is what can you do when you have cost or money is not on your side, like you don't have a lot of it to spare, and time is not on your side either. […]
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