Your job search, run from one place.

Once you're certified in the Applied Instructional Design Academy (AIDA), you run your search with Job Search HQ, live support calls and job referrals from our career services team.

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Straight from a grad

I knew on the first day that I started AIDA I wanted to work for [a specific global organization] for many reasons and one being that I needed global remote because of my situation. I am very grateful to Taran for connecting me and it seems like everything just fell into place for me.

Angelique KuyperArt and ESL Teacher (19 Years) → Senior Instructional Designer, International Organization for Migration

Career services

Real people in your corner.

Career services is with you while you're in the program, up to 12 months, for full-time roles and contract work alike.

Taran, Career Services Specialist

Employer connections

Taran works with employers and often refers AIDA members to companies looking for IDs. She runs Pre-Hire Roundtables, Networking Nights and mock interview calls, and if your search goes quiet for a few weeks, she reaches out.

Your mentors

Reviews and coaching calls

A mentor reviews your portfolio, resume and LinkedIn before each one is accepted, and runs Job Readiness coaching calls for your questions along the way. The calls are recorded, and the recordings are in Job Search HQ.

Our own job board

The ID Job Board, wired in

Real ID openings on our own job board, connected to your tracker, so you can spot a posting, track it and work the application from one place.

The Career Services team prepared me every step of the way and provided me with tailored resources and coaching to help me prepare. This was one of the most challenging parts of my AIDA journey and I am so grateful for the support they provided!

Colleen KingCommunity College Coordinator → Training Developer, Clayton Homes

Taran's work with the mock interviews directly contributed to my success so far. I listened to most of the recordings like a podcast [...], and practicing everything in the sessions directly applied to what I was asked in each interview.

Heathcliff LopezTeacher → Manager, Training, Alliance Technical Group

Networking is how you skip the line.

A referral gets your resume read, so networking is part of every week of your search. We show you how, inside AIDA and outside it. And employers come back: once a company hires one AIDA grad, plenty hire more.

40%of grads found their ID job through networking, in AIDA or outside it

1 in 4found their ID job through AIDA

106companies have hired two or more AIDA grads, and 49 have hired three or more

31AIDA grads hired by one company, the most so far. 19 companies have hired five or more

See all the numbers in the Outcomes Report

Job Readiness

First, your three assets.

Each one has step-by-step lessons and a mentor review, and the next one opens when it's accepted.

Your portfolio websiteWrite up each sample, your About page and your Working with AI page, then build your site with your Rise and Storyline samples linked from it.

Your resumeSection by section, to the AIDA resume standard, with help turning your experience into the language corporate hiring managers use.

Your LinkedInEvery section of your profile, plus the job-seeker side: Open to Work, job alerts and recommendations.

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Then the search opensApplying, networking, interviewing and offers, all in one place, with a next step waiting every time you log in.

Job Search HQ

A week in your search.

A taste of what it looks like once you're applying, and what Job Search HQ does around each step.

Monday night

You find a posting you'd love

You spot it on the LS&D Job Board or somewhere else and paste the link into your tracker, and Job Search HQ pulls in the company, the role and the details for you. Then the AIDA Insider Check shows you AIDA grads who work there, with a button to start an intro message. Network with them, and they can recommend you as a referral. Referrals have a much higher chance of getting hired.

Application trackerAIDA Insider CheckID Job Board

Tuesday

You tailor it and apply

The Resume Tailor compares your resume to the job posting and suggests instructional design language that matches it, so you can tailor your resume to that job and stand out in the ATS. The Cover Letter Tailor does the same for your letter. You apply, log it with one tap, and the card walks you through reaching the hiring manager on LinkedIn, so a real person sees your name too.

Resume TailorCover Letter Generator and TailorReach the hiring manager

The next week

A reply lands in your inbox

You forward it to Ada (Jill's brain), the AI assistant built into Job Search HQ, and it goes into your application tracker, so everything for that job stays in one place. A recruiter reply, an interview invitation, a rejection, an offer: Ada knows where each one goes, and an interview starts your prep card.

Before the interview

You prep and practice

Ada researches the company and builds a one-page prep card with your STAR stories, your answers to questions about AI and questions you could ask. Then you prep and practice with our mock interview tools: a text mock interview, then a voice mock where you answer out loud, with coaching in the debrief, so you walk in having already said your answers out loud. The night before, Ada emails you where you stand. An hour before, she sends your stories and your questions.

Interview Response BuilderVoice mock interviewsPortfolio Interview SimulatorID Interview Question and Answer Bank

After

You network and follow up

Networking is part of every week, and we show you how. In a Power Half Hour, you spend 30 minutes on networking activities we tell you to do, based on your own comfort level, and they're all logged in your tracker. Ada helps you write a thank-you note specific to what you talked about, and your tracker flags anyone you haven't followed up with in three weeks.

Networking Message StudioInformational Interview WingmanAIDA Member DirectoryPower Half Hour

When the offer comes

You compare and negotiate

Log your offers and compare them side by side. The Offer Decoder breaks an offer down, and the Salary Negotiation Assistant helps you ask for more, on the W2 path or the contract path. When you get the job or contract, Ada celebrates with you.

Offer DecoderSalary Negotiation Assistant

Grad timelines

How long did it take them?

See when real AIDA grads hit each milestone, counted from the month each one started. Everyone's pace is different, and these are their real dates.

Drag through the months, and use the filters to find the grads whose lives looked like yours: kids at home, a full-time job the whole way through, or starting after 50.

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Started, finished, first interviewJob or contract

Dates come from each grad's case study, counted from the month each one started AIDA. Where the full story is up, tap the name to read it.

The real deal

What the search really looks like.

I will be honest. The search takes work. On average, AIDA grads get hired about 4 months after they start applying, and half were hired within 12 weeks (554 grads reported, AIDA Outcomes Report). Interviews tend to come in a cluster after a quiet stretch.

By the middle of May, I went from riding the roller coaster of rejection emails to having three job offers at once.

Morgan StevensHigh School Science Teacher → Instructional Developer V, Core4ce

Do you guarantee a job?+

No, and I'd be careful with anyone who does. What we do: review your portfolio, resume and LinkedIn until they're ready, prepare you for interviews until you can speak to the real work, and support your search with career services and Job Search HQ while you're in the program, up to 12 months. Then you go earn the offer.

Your questions

The questions I hear about the search.

Will someone actually hire me? I hear it more than any other question. Straight answers first, then how the search works inside AIDA.

Isn't the field saturated?The front door is crowded, mostly with applications that have nothing a hiring manager can click. A portfolio of reviewed samples and a network you've built is how you get through it. 760+ employers have hired AIDA grads.

Will they only see a teacher?They see what you show them. Your resume gets rebuilt section by section in the language corporate hiring managers use, whatever field you're coming from, and your portfolio shows the work itself, with write-ups that walk them through your thinking.

What if I freeze in the interview?You practice out loud before it counts: text and voice mock interviews in Job Search HQ, live mock interview calls, and a prep card with your stories and your answer to "How do you use AI?"

What if I apply and hear nothing?Quiet stretches are normal, and interviews tend to come in a cluster after one. If your search goes quiet for a few weeks, Taran reaches out, and the coaching calls are there to look at what's going out.

Your portfolio, resume and LinkedIn come first, built to what hiring managers look for, then the search itself, with Ada, real tools and our career services team in your corner while you're in the program, up to 12 months. Full-time roles and contract work count the same. Job Search HQ uses the LEAD AI Framework.

Questions before you join?

Email info@learningstrategyanddesign.com and our team replies within one business day. Refund within 3 days of purchase, minus a $300 processing fee, and you can pause your enrollment for up to 3 months. Read the terms.

Jill Davidian is the founder of Learning Strategy & Design and creator of the Applied ID Portfolio Method. 20+ years in instructional design, including time as a hiring manager. 1,200+ AIDA graduates. More about Jill
Last updated: November 2026

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