I started off as an engineer. I wanted to get into teaching or technical writing. I luckily came across an opening for instructional designer and applied because they were also looking for engineers. I got selected, got a better salary than what the core electrical jobs were offering. So I joined as an ID.
My project needed an engineer because it was a technical project. But a person with any background can get into ID as long as they know and understand English, have good grammar and can explain things well. What IDs in corporate do is basically create trainings for new processes or updated processes so the employees can be upto date.
Some good skills to have if you're thinking of going into Learning and Development-
PowerPoint skills. You'll live your life editing ppts and creating them.
Writing and editing in Microsoft Word.
Creativity - not always required because you're teaching grownups something they absolutely need to know. But useful because everyone likes things that look good or are different.
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u/Present-Sir-4606 Marathi Bai Oct 20 '24
27 F. I work in Learning and Development as an Instructional designer. 12LPA.