March 5, 2024 • 12 mins
In today's episode, I reveal the hidden power of networking for educators aiming to pivot their careers into the exciting realm of user experience and product design. Through the UX Teacher Prep Podcast, you'll uncover the truth behind a robust professional network—not just as a collection of contacts, but as a pivotal force for career advancement. You'll learn that a resume might land on a desk, but it's your relationships that open doors, ensuring you're seen, heard, and remembered in spaces you've yet to explore.
In this episode, I share personal anecdotes from my own transition out of the classroom and into the tech sphere, offering practical strategies to forge meaningful industry connections. This isn't about social media numbers; it's about creating ongoing partnerships that support growth long after you've secured your dream role. So tune in, get inspired, and let's start building a network that not only enhances your net worth but secures your place in the future of tech.
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Zee (00:00):
Hello teacher friends, coach Z, here and today we're
going to talk about networking.
I know that this is a scarytopic for some educators because
you really don't have tonetwork with anyone outside of
your teaching space on a regularbasis, especially if you're not
a lead teacher in some kind ofleadership development program
or a teacher who goes onconferences and such.
But I want to talk to you todayabout how important it is for
(00:21):
you to network in order for youto land your new role outside
the classroom, and I'm alsogoing to provide some examples
so you can get started on thisright away.
So if you're ready to getconnected, stay tuned.
Narrator (00:32):
Welcome to the UX Teacher Prep Podcast, the
ultimate destination foreducators who aspire to break
into the field of userexperience and product design.
Your host, Zee Arnold, a15-year teacher turned UX
Researcher, is here to guide,coach and mentor you through
every twist and turn as you makeyour career transition into
tech.
If you're ready for a moresatisfying career and lifestyle
(00:55):
and you want the balance tounleash your creativity, this
podcast is for you.
Now for the show.
Zee (01:11):
Just to let you know, I do have a workshop coming up on
YouTube in the coming weeks toget deeper into this topic of
networking, LinkedIn andoptimizing your LinkedIn page,
which is really an importantpart of this whole process.
So stay tuned for that and makesure you sign up for my email
list on my website,uxteacherprep.
com, so that you get informationwhen it is coming out, and also
make sure you follow my YouTubechannel, UX Teacher Prep, so
(01:31):
you don't miss when I go live.
So today's topic came to mindwhen I was meeting with one of
my coaching clients the otherday and they were talking about
their resume.
I'm not going to name theperson because I like to keep my
clients' information anonymous.
So I was updating their resumeand we were talking through all
their accomplishments, and oneof the pain points that my
client was having was that theywere submitting their resume to
(01:52):
so many companies.
Mind you, their resume lookedpretty good, but they weren't
even getting any callbacks forinterviews, and so I asked them
how does your network look?
Have you been networking withanyone in companies you're
interested in or the roles youwant?
And the answer was no.
So that was a red flag for mebecause I know that networking
is super important, and a lot ofpeople say it's all about who
(02:13):
you know.
Oftentimes, when I meet withclients, I uncover that
networking is a missing piece ofthe puzzle for them.
Your network is super importantbecause you need your resume to
be seen and your voice to beheard and your name to be called
in rooms that you're not in,and the best way to make that
happen is to network, network,network.
Today, I'm going to talk aboutthree ways you can create a
(02:34):
network that will help you landyour next role outside the
classroom and, like I always say, it's about strategy.
So when I say networking, Idon't mean going on social media
and getting as many randomfollowers as you can.
The purpose of networking is tobuild a relationship with
people that you can continue tolearn from and grow with, even
after you land your role outsidethe classroom.
If you take nothing else awayfrom today's episode, what I
(02:55):
want you to walk away with isthis Networking gets your foot
in the door, and that's the mostimportant part of the process.
Of course, you have to updateand polish your resume and nail
your interview, which are twoupcoming episodes I have for you
but if you're not networking,there's a chance you won't even
get to the point where you cansit with the hiring manager and
speak to the fantastic thingsyou wrote about in your resume
(03:16):
and why you're the best personfor the job.
I do believe that there's sometruth in that saying your
network is your net worth.
I think about some of the bestwriters out there and how some
pieces of their work didn't evenget recognized or published
until they passed away andpeople began to find and read
their work.
For example, emily Dickinsonshe struggled to get her work
published and it wasn't untilafter she passed away that her
(03:38):
sister discovered some of herpoetry and that was almost 1800
pieces of work and that's whenit was published.
Nothing worked, but no one knewabout it.
It's the same for you.
Even if you create yourtransition resume and you've
optimized your LinkedIn page, ifyou're not networking with
anyone, how are people supposedto know who you are?
You have to sell yourself andyour expertise.
(03:59):
Imagine you're a hiring managerand you have a pile of 100
resumes and you've never seen orheard of any of these people
except for one.
Nine times out of 10, you'regoing to look at the one resume
first, the person that youactually have heard about or has
been recommended to you bysomeone else.
And, yes, humans still look atresumes.
It's not all about theapplication tracking system, ats
(04:20):
, where your resume is beingelectronically handled with no
human eye or human hands, andI'll share with you that.
The way I got my foot in thedoor as a transitioning teacher
to even talk to a hiring managerat my company was through
networking.
I was in the right place at theright time and I was able to
get a referral for the position.
So, because of networking, myresume made it in front of the
(04:41):
right person and that was myfoot in the door to show off my
expertise.
More on that in a bit.
So the first networkingstrategy I want to share with
you is connecting on LinkedIn.
If you haven't heard, linkedinis the place to be for
professionals who are lookingfor new careers.
So once you make your profile,the first thing you should do is
follow the business pages ofthe companies you're interested
in working at, engage on some oftheir posts as they come up.
(05:03):
If you see something that youfeel you can add value to or
insight, to comment on it.
If you see something you like,like it or even repost it on
your page.
Then look for people to connectwith.
The goal here is to connect withpeople who have common
professional interests as you.
For example, you're bothtransitioning teachers, looking
into UX careers, or you bothshare an interest in a specific
(05:26):
ed tech company.
Use the search feature to findpeople who are currently in the
roles that you want and at thecompanies you want to work at.
You can reach out to them forinformational interviews, also
called coffee chats.
This is a great way to learnfrom experts in the field, but
I'll caution you to make sureyou have specific questions you
want to ask them, and theseshould be questions that you've
already researched and can'tfind answers to online through a
(05:49):
simple search.
Everyone's busy and if youreach out to someone with 30
questions and want to pick theirbrain for free, that's going to
be a hard sell.
Time is money, so try to havetwo to three specific questions
you'd like to ask them and whenyou reach out, let them know
what you want to learn from them.
Don't ask anything that you canresearch on Google.
When I first got on LinkedIn, Igot the premium version.
(06:11):
They had a free trial so Icould have credits to inbox a
certain amount of people eachmonth.
Then, later on, I actuallyended up buying the premium
version for $40 a month $39.99,so I'd be able to continue
networking that way.
But if you don't have the money, you can certainly continue to
comment on posts, like and shareposts and, of course,
contribute with your own contentand insightful ideas.
(06:33):
The goal is to get yourselfknown.
For example, if you learnsomething new about UX and you
see a connection to teaching,you can write a post about that
and add some relevant hashtagsto get more eyes on it, and you
can also follow experts that youwant to learn from and join
their mailing list to even getmore information to help
increase your knowledge on thetopic.
Now, if you noticed, none of theadvice I presented about
(06:54):
LinkedIn involved bashing yourprincipal, bashing the education
system or ranting about all thethings you don't like about
teaching or your currentexperience.
There's a time and place foreverything and LinkedIn is a
professional platform.
It's not the place for you togo and bad talk your current
employer.
We know that people leaveprofessions because of bad
energy, bad bosses, trauma andnegative things, and, on the
(07:16):
flip side, sometimes it's notnegative.
It's about outgrowing a companyand wanting new experiences, or
wanting more pay or to make agreater impact.
What you don't want to do is goon LinkedIn and talk about all
the negative things that arehappening at your job or all the
negative feelings you'regetting during the interview
process and I'm saying thisbecause I've seen it so many
times on LinkedIn, especiallyfrom transitioning teachers.
(07:37):
There are best practices foreverything you do For LinkedIn.
It's called LinkedIn Etiquette.
Look at it from an employer'sperspective.
This type of behavior isextremely unprofessional and a
hiring manager seeing that isgoing to think well, things
don't work out for them at mycompany.
They'll probably go on LinkedInand do the exact same thing and
bash our company.
So why would I hire them?
(07:57):
You have to think strategicallyand you have to think like a
hiring manager throughout thisprocess.
So if you feel like you need togo on a rant, go home and call
your bestie and do that withyour bestie on the phone or
pillow, talk with your spouse.
Those are the spaces availablefor you to rant, but when it
comes to professional spaceslike LinkedIn, that is not the
place.
All right, I hope you're takingnotes.
(08:19):
The second strategy is joiningonline groups or communities and
attending meetups.
I said earlier that I was inthe right place at the right
time to get my current role andI'll tell you a little bit more
about that now.
So I joined a Slack communitythat aligned with the career
goal that I had.
So Slack is like a messagingapp for professionals and a lot
of companies, especially remoteones, in tech use it as a way
(08:39):
for colleagues to communicate.
The community is called the UXof EdTech and it has a lot of
teachers who are interested inUX and product careers and
former teachers who transitionto UX.
Really great community with alot of support, a lot of
resources and people just livein their everyday having
conversations about UX and aboutteachers and transitioning.
I saw a posting come up for UXdesigner role and I jumped on it
(09:01):
.
I inboxed the employee whoposted the position with a
friendly note saying I saw thepost and I asked if I could use
his name on my application.
I sent him a private inboxmessage.
Make a note of that.
He said yes and honestly, I'msure he did a bit of research on
me to see how I interacted inthe community and make sure he
was okay with me using him as areference, and I had been doing
(09:23):
my part by posting in thecommunity and engaging with
others in a professional manner.
I don't think he would havesaid yes if I wasn't doing that.
So, besides Slack communities,you can also join meetup groups.
I use this app called Meetupand I've found it useful to get
connected with local UXresearchers and also to attend
virtual UX events and other techevents.
(09:43):
There are Facebook groups fortransitioning teachers and for
tech industries, mighty networkgroups, clubhouse groups, and
the list goes on.
There's so many ways to getconnected and within these
communities you can learn aboutupcoming conferences and
workshops where you can networkwith others in your future role.
And it's great because the hostwill usually invite you to drop
(10:03):
your LinkedIn profile link inthe chat to easily connect with
other people, and sometimes theyeven collect more information
from guests and compile it intoa spreadsheet and send it out to
all the attendees so they cancontinue to nurture those
relationships even after theworkshop.
And the last strategy I want toshare with you is one you maybe
haven't considered.
It's talking to family andfriends in other careers to
(10:24):
learn what their role is like.
Tell them that you might belooking into other roles you can
even say part-time roles ifyou're not ready to reveal that
you're leaving the classroom oryou're leaving teaching, and
tell them that you'd love tohear about what they do, you'd
be surprised how many people youhave in your circle already who
have awesome careers that youmight be interested in pursuing.
You can even ask them to let youknow about upcoming positions
(10:45):
or postings, and that's yourfoot in the door right there.
So look at your circle and seewho you have around you, and
talk to family members, talk tofriends, talk to your spouse's
friends or your significantother's friends, and try to see
if you can connect with peoplewho are in companies that you
may be interested in or rolesthat you may be interested in.
So that's it for today'sepisode, and I really look
(11:05):
forward to continuing thisconversation with you on my
YouTube live when we'll talkmore about networking and
LinkedIn.
If you have any questions aboutwhat I discussed in today's
episode, feel free to DM me onInstagram I respond to every
message I receive or if you wantto learn more about how UX
Teacher Prep can help you withyour transition, visit
uxtteacherprepcom.
Thanks so much for listeningand we'll talk next week.
Narrator (11:31):
Hey, thanks so much for tuning in.
If you like this podcast, hit,follow and scroll down to leave
a five star rating.
Then share it with a friend.
If you're looking for resourcesto help you on your tech
transition journey, head over touxteacherprepcom.
Follow us on LinkedIn andInstagram @uxteacherprep for
daily tips and motivation.
Have a topic you'd like to hearaddressed on the show?
(11:53):
Send us a DM on Instagram.
If you're listening on YouTube,like, subscribe and share.
Until next time, be well.
Hello teacher friends, coach Z, here and today we're
going to talk about networking.
I know that this is a scarytopic for some educators because
you really don't have tonetwork with anyone outside of
your teaching space on a regularbasis, especially if you're not
a lead teacher in some kind ofleadership development program
or a teacher who goes onconferences and such.
But I want to talk to you todayabout how important it is for
(00:21):
you to network in order for youto land your new role outside
the classroom, and I'm alsogoing to provide some examples
so you can get started on thisright away.
So if you're ready to getconnected, stay tuned.
Narrator (00:32):
Welcome to the UX Teacher Prep Podcast, the
ultimate destination foreducators who aspire to break
into the field of userexperience and product design.
Your host, Zee Arnold, a15-year teacher turned UX
Researcher, is here to guide,coach and mentor you through
every twist and turn as you makeyour career transition into
tech.
If you're ready for a moresatisfying career and lifestyle
(00:55):
and you want the balance tounleash your creativity, this
podcast is for you.
Now for the show.
Zee (01:11):
Just to let you know, I do have a workshop coming up on
YouTube in the coming weeks toget deeper into this topic of
networking, LinkedIn andoptimizing your LinkedIn page,
which is really an importantpart of this whole process.
So stay tuned for that and makesure you sign up for my email
list on my website,uxteacherprep.
com, so that you get informationwhen it is coming out, and also
make sure you follow my YouTubechannel, UX Teacher Prep, so
(01:31):
you don't miss when I go live.
So today's topic came to mindwhen I was meeting with one of
my coaching clients the otherday and they were talking about
their resume.
I'm not going to name theperson because I like to keep my
clients' information anonymous.
So I was updating their resumeand we were talking through all
their accomplishments, and oneof the pain points that my
client was having was that theywere submitting their resume to
(01:52):
so many companies.
Mind you, their resume lookedpretty good, but they weren't
even getting any callbacks forinterviews, and so I asked them
how does your network look?
Have you been networking withanyone in companies you're
interested in or the roles youwant?
And the answer was no.
So that was a red flag for mebecause I know that networking
is super important, and a lot ofpeople say it's all about who
(02:13):
you know.
Oftentimes, when I meet withclients, I uncover that
networking is a missing piece ofthe puzzle for them.
Your network is super importantbecause you need your resume to
be seen and your voice to beheard and your name to be called
in rooms that you're not in,and the best way to make that
happen is to network, network,network.
Today, I'm going to talk aboutthree ways you can create a
(02:34):
network that will help you landyour next role outside the
classroom and, like I always say, it's about strategy.
So when I say networking, Idon't mean going on social media
and getting as many randomfollowers as you can.
The purpose of networking is tobuild a relationship with
people that you can continue tolearn from and grow with, even
after you land your role outsidethe classroom.
If you take nothing else awayfrom today's episode, what I
(02:55):
want you to walk away with isthis Networking gets your foot
in the door, and that's the mostimportant part of the process.
Of course, you have to updateand polish your resume and nail
your interview, which are twoupcoming episodes I have for you
but if you're not networking,there's a chance you won't even
get to the point where you cansit with the hiring manager and
speak to the fantastic thingsyou wrote about in your resume
(03:16):
and why you're the best personfor the job.
I do believe that there's sometruth in that saying your
network is your net worth.
I think about some of the bestwriters out there and how some
pieces of their work didn't evenget recognized or published
until they passed away andpeople began to find and read
their work.
For example, emily Dickinsonshe struggled to get her work
published and it wasn't untilafter she passed away that her
(03:38):
sister discovered some of herpoetry and that was almost 1800
pieces of work and that's whenit was published.
Nothing worked, but no one knewabout it.
It's the same for you.
Even if you create yourtransition resume and you've
optimized your LinkedIn page, ifyou're not networking with
anyone, how are people supposedto know who you are?
You have to sell yourself andyour expertise.
(03:59):
Imagine you're a hiring managerand you have a pile of 100
resumes and you've never seen orheard of any of these people
except for one.
Nine times out of 10, you'regoing to look at the one resume
first, the person that youactually have heard about or has
been recommended to you bysomeone else.
And, yes, humans still look atresumes.
It's not all about theapplication tracking system, ats
(04:20):
, where your resume is beingelectronically handled with no
human eye or human hands, andI'll share with you that.
The way I got my foot in thedoor as a transitioning teacher
to even talk to a hiring managerat my company was through
networking.
I was in the right place at theright time and I was able to
get a referral for the position.
So, because of networking, myresume made it in front of the
(04:41):
right person and that was myfoot in the door to show off my
expertise.
More on that in a bit.
So the first networkingstrategy I want to share with
you is connecting on LinkedIn.
If you haven't heard, linkedinis the place to be for
professionals who are lookingfor new careers.
So once you make your profile,the first thing you should do is
follow the business pages ofthe companies you're interested
in working at, engage on some oftheir posts as they come up.
(05:03):
If you see something that youfeel you can add value to or
insight, to comment on it.
If you see something you like,like it or even repost it on
your page.
Then look for people to connectwith.
The goal here is to connect withpeople who have common
professional interests as you.
For example, you're bothtransitioning teachers, looking
into UX careers, or you bothshare an interest in a specific
(05:26):
ed tech company.
Use the search feature to findpeople who are currently in the
roles that you want and at thecompanies you want to work at.
You can reach out to them forinformational interviews, also
called coffee chats.
This is a great way to learnfrom experts in the field, but
I'll caution you to make sureyou have specific questions you
want to ask them, and theseshould be questions that you've
already researched and can'tfind answers to online through a
(05:49):
simple search.
Everyone's busy and if youreach out to someone with 30
questions and want to pick theirbrain for free, that's going to
be a hard sell.
Time is money, so try to havetwo to three specific questions
you'd like to ask them and whenyou reach out, let them know
what you want to learn from them.
Don't ask anything that you canresearch on Google.
When I first got on LinkedIn, Igot the premium version.
(06:11):
They had a free trial so Icould have credits to inbox a
certain amount of people eachmonth.
Then, later on, I actuallyended up buying the premium
version for $40 a month $39.99,so I'd be able to continue
networking that way.
But if you don't have the money, you can certainly continue to
comment on posts, like and shareposts and, of course,
contribute with your own contentand insightful ideas.
(06:33):
The goal is to get yourselfknown.
For example, if you learnsomething new about UX and you
see a connection to teaching,you can write a post about that
and add some relevant hashtagsto get more eyes on it, and you
can also follow experts that youwant to learn from and join
their mailing list to even getmore information to help
increase your knowledge on thetopic.
Now, if you noticed, none of theadvice I presented about
(06:54):
LinkedIn involved bashing yourprincipal, bashing the education
system or ranting about all thethings you don't like about
teaching or your currentexperience.
There's a time and place foreverything and LinkedIn is a
professional platform.
It's not the place for you togo and bad talk your current
employer.
We know that people leaveprofessions because of bad
energy, bad bosses, trauma andnegative things, and, on the
(07:16):
flip side, sometimes it's notnegative.
It's about outgrowing a companyand wanting new experiences, or
wanting more pay or to make agreater impact.
What you don't want to do is goon LinkedIn and talk about all
the negative things that arehappening at your job or all the
negative feelings you'regetting during the interview
process and I'm saying thisbecause I've seen it so many
times on LinkedIn, especiallyfrom transitioning teachers.
(07:37):
There are best practices foreverything you do For LinkedIn.
It's called LinkedIn Etiquette.
Look at it from an employer'sperspective.
This type of behavior isextremely unprofessional and a
hiring manager seeing that isgoing to think well, things
don't work out for them at mycompany.
They'll probably go on LinkedInand do the exact same thing and
bash our company.
So why would I hire them?
(07:57):
You have to think strategicallyand you have to think like a
hiring manager throughout thisprocess.
So if you feel like you need togo on a rant, go home and call
your bestie and do that withyour bestie on the phone or
pillow, talk with your spouse.
Those are the spaces availablefor you to rant, but when it
comes to professional spaceslike LinkedIn, that is not the
place.
All right, I hope you're takingnotes.
(08:19):
The second strategy is joiningonline groups or communities and
attending meetups.
I said earlier that I was inthe right place at the right
time to get my current role andI'll tell you a little bit more
about that now.
So I joined a Slack communitythat aligned with the career
goal that I had.
So Slack is like a messagingapp for professionals and a lot
of companies, especially remoteones, in tech use it as a way
(08:39):
for colleagues to communicate.
The community is called the UXof EdTech and it has a lot of
teachers who are interested inUX and product careers and
former teachers who transitionto UX.
Really great community with alot of support, a lot of
resources and people just livein their everyday having
conversations about UX and aboutteachers and transitioning.
I saw a posting come up for UXdesigner role and I jumped on it
(09:01):
.
I inboxed the employee whoposted the position with a
friendly note saying I saw thepost and I asked if I could use
his name on my application.
I sent him a private inboxmessage.
Make a note of that.
He said yes and honestly, I'msure he did a bit of research on
me to see how I interacted inthe community and make sure he
was okay with me using him as areference, and I had been doing
(09:23):
my part by posting in thecommunity and engaging with
others in a professional manner.
I don't think he would havesaid yes if I wasn't doing that.
So, besides Slack communities,you can also join meetup groups.
I use this app called Meetupand I've found it useful to get
connected with local UXresearchers and also to attend
virtual UX events and other techevents.
(09:43):
There are Facebook groups fortransitioning teachers and for
tech industries, mighty networkgroups, clubhouse groups, and
the list goes on.
There's so many ways to getconnected and within these
communities you can learn aboutupcoming conferences and
workshops where you can networkwith others in your future role.
And it's great because the hostwill usually invite you to drop
(10:03):
your LinkedIn profile link inthe chat to easily connect with
other people, and sometimes theyeven collect more information
from guests and compile it intoa spreadsheet and send it out to
all the attendees so they cancontinue to nurture those
relationships even after theworkshop.
And the last strategy I want toshare with you is one you maybe
haven't considered.
It's talking to family andfriends in other careers to
(10:24):
learn what their role is like.
Tell them that you might belooking into other roles you can
even say part-time roles ifyou're not ready to reveal that
you're leaving the classroom oryou're leaving teaching, and
tell them that you'd love tohear about what they do, you'd
be surprised how many people youhave in your circle already who
have awesome careers that youmight be interested in pursuing.
You can even ask them to let youknow about upcoming positions
(10:45):
or postings, and that's yourfoot in the door right there.
So look at your circle and seewho you have around you, and
talk to family members, talk tofriends, talk to your spouse's
friends or your significantother's friends, and try to see
if you can connect with peoplewho are in companies that you
may be interested in or rolesthat you may be interested in.
So that's it for today'sepisode, and I really look
(11:05):
forward to continuing thisconversation with you on my
YouTube live when we'll talkmore about networking and
LinkedIn.
If you have any questions aboutwhat I discussed in today's
episode, feel free to DM me onInstagram I respond to every
message I receive or if you wantto learn more about how UX
Teacher Prep can help you withyour transition, visit
uxtteacherprepcom.
Thanks so much for listeningand we'll talk next week.
Narrator (11:31):
Hey, thanks so much for tuning in.
If you like this podcast, hit,follow and scroll down to leave
a five star rating.
Then share it with a friend.
If you're looking for resourcesto help you on your tech
transition journey, head over touxteacherprepcom.
Follow us on LinkedIn andInstagram @uxteacherprep for
daily tips and motivation.
Have a topic you'd like to hearaddressed on the show?
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