You may not have seen any help wanted ads with that headline. But companies are on the hunt for Instructional Designers (IDs) with an entrepreneurial bent and a creative flair.
And who are willing to work for a salary in the $130,000+ range.
Sound like a fantasy or a scam? It’s not.
And not only are IDs getting the higher salaries, they’re increasingly getting director-level titles.
“Creative, high-tech eLearning instructional designers are the new content marketers,” according to Jessica, a recruiter for the health-care industry who didn’t want to give her last name because she feared being overwhelmed with emails from job-seeking IDs. In an email interview, she told me employers are after the unique skill-set of instructional designers.
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