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Tips for Crushing Your E-Learning & Instructional Design Interview #485

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7 days ago

Instructional Design Interview Tips #485: Challenge | Recap

Let's face it: Most of us don't enjoy job interviews. Whether it's been years since your last one or you've had more than a few recently, they're never something we look forward to. 

But here's the deal: the sooner you prep and know what to expect for your next e-learning or instructional design interview, the more confident you'll feel walking into it. And that's what this week's challenge is all about!

🏆 Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to create an example that helps e-learning and instructional designers prepare for job interviews or identify areas to focus on before the big day.

Your example can be static or interactive, depending on your approach. Here are some ideas to get you started:

  • Include at least 10 frequently asked instructional design interview questions
  • Use a variety of question types (behavioral, technical, scenario-based)
  • Simulate common interview challenges in a mock interview
  • Focus your interaction using a behavioral response frameworks (STAR, SOAR, BAR, CAR, or PAR)

🛠️ Focused Practice Areas

Rise 360

Storyline 360

✨ Share Your E-Learning Work

  • Comments: Use the comments section below to link your published example and blog post.
  • Forums: Start a new thread and share a link to your published example.
  • Personal blog: If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We'll link to your posts, so your great work gets even more exposure.
  • Social media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can follow your e-learning coolness.

🙌 Last Week’s Challenge:

Before prepping for this week’s interview challenge, take a look at the creative examples from last week’s interactive markers challenge:

Interactive Markers in E-Learning RECAP #484: Challenge | Recap

👋 New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article.

📆 Upcoming Challenges

  • Challenge #486 (12.06): Blended learning with job aids and workbooks. 

    Take a new or existing example and turn it into a practice opportunity by designing a job aid or workbook.

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    • ThierryEMMANUEL's avatar
      ThierryEMMANUEL
      Community Member

      Thank you all very much. Beyond the fact that I like to teach you French words from time to time, each “memo” I paste really really represents what I'm trying to convey (about myself and the way I work) and do when interviewing new prospects -like just a few days ago. 

      • CydWalker_mwhc's avatar
        CydWalker_mwhc
        Community Member

        Hey, that looks like my computer desktop! :) Real life, love how you work!

    • Blake_Farrell's avatar
      Blake_Farrell
      Community Member

      I loved this, Thierry! What a cool way to visualize what I think many of us experience in this situation.

  • JodiSansone's avatar
    JodiSansone
    Community Member

    Designing Minds with Eric and Jessica

    Demo: Check it out Here

    I was listening to some podcasts this weekend and they inspired the layout for this demo. I always like it when you can advance to specific points in a podcast by scrolling down and choosing your topic with a time stamp.  Here Eric and Jessica (two of the built-in AI voices) practice answering questions with the SCAR technique (Situation, Challenge, Action, Result).  All the content was developed with the AI content generator. Ten questions was a lot to ask for in a challenge--I did five only. :)

    • ThierryEMMANUEL's avatar
      ThierryEMMANUEL
      Community Member

      What could be more complete and better done? 5 minutes essential to answer the question of this challenge, Jodi.

    • CydWalker_mwhc's avatar
      CydWalker_mwhc
      Community Member

      Beautiful presentation as always Jodi! Very engaging. Where did you find these lovely characters?

      • JodiSansone's avatar
        JodiSansone
        Community Member

        Thank you for the kind note. Those characters come from a service called GraphicMama. I know they are over the top, which is why I like them. :)  They come in sets of about 100+ poses/expressions, and a set costs about $32. Someone used them in a challenge several years ago and I started playing with them. I only use them for demos here for fun.

  • JoeWaddington1's avatar
    JoeWaddington1
    Community Member

    I recently went through the interviewing process while looking for a new position.  What really helped me through it was the use of AI. So that's what I used for my project :)


    • CydWalker_mwhc's avatar
      CydWalker_mwhc
      Community Member

      Excellent suggestions to use AI as a partner in the process. Like the straightforward design too!

  • ShelbyBreece's avatar
    ShelbyBreece
    Community Member

    Hello!

     Here is my submission. If I had more time I would make the scenes more interactive but I would love some suggestions on what to do when you have a lot of feedback to present on one slide. Do you move the feedback to another slide? Do you lightbox the feedback? I just feel like these slides have wayy to much on them, but sadly I don't have time this week to create better. https://360.articulate.com/review/content/663a21ae-2a45-44cb-8596-e7af8397c9c2/review

    • ThierryEMMANUEL's avatar
      ThierryEMMANUEL
      Community Member

      I really like the way you set up the interviewer/interviewee situation, Shelby: it's obvious and therefore effective. The examples of dialogue are also relevant. Indded, yours screens lack a little interactivity. May I try to give my opinion, since you're asking the question ‘how could it be done differently’? I think it would have been more attractive to give all the space to the ‘dialogue’ (full-screen photo and bubbles) + a ‘tip’ button, and then feedback emerges from one side of the screen (with perhaps a new bubble offering a better answer (explanation + example) or even 3 to choose from (explanation + examples + learner intervention). And that's all, because everything else is already there.