Archive for October 24th, 2008
Manish Mohan recently wrote a post, in response to the monthly Learning Circuits question, describing resources on how to get started with instructional design. In it, he said the following about what he looks for in recruits:
… But honestly, as a manager who has had to recruit for ID, I look for prior experience, and if there is no prior experience, I look for their core writing skills and ability to learn. Having a diploma is good but not essential.
… Basically you need to have good writing skills. This is most critical to get into instructional design job. … [They are] typically what is tested by companies for taking on new IDs. …
Which suggests that instructional design hopefuls can also get a lot of use out of resources that help them with their writing quality. So you might want to check out recent posts at Dave’s Whiteboard and Making Change on the subject of how to write for readability …
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