How much of an instructional designer are you already?

This free career change quiz shows which ID skills you already use, where you’d need to stretch, and what’s between you and a first ID job.

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What your results show you.

Your Instructional Design Fit Profile is written from your own answers.

your skills

Six skills, checked against your work

Six skills instructional designers use every day, and which ones show up in the work you do now. They’re part of the job. The tools, the design documents and a portfolio are the rest.

your stretch

Where you’d shine and where you’d stretch

One real strength, based on the kind of work you like, and one honest growth edge to plan for.

your gap

What’s between you and a first ID job

What’s left to build: the ID language, a portfolio of your own, and real practice in a tool like Storyline or Rise. Then a few places to go next.

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. More about Jill
Last updated: November 2026

Built by someone who’s been the hiring manager.

“Your skills transfer” is the advice everywhere you look. Some of them do. A pep talk won’t tell you which ones, and you’re weighing a real career move. Jill built this quiz from 20+ years in instructional design and from training 1,200+ career changers. It names the skills you bring and the ones you’d still need to build, so you can decide your next move with real information.

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