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ID Offer Decoder

Paste the offer letter, and get a plain-English breakdown: salary check against your state, what to negotiate, red flags to watch for, and next steps. Built for career changers landing their first ID role.

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Step 1

Where and What Level

Your state sets the salary benchmark. Level tells us how far above entry-level your offer should sit.

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Entry-level ID salary averages by state, sourced from Salary.com, May 2026.

\n Your Experience Level *\n

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Paste the full text of the offer letter or offer email. Include everything: salary, benefits, PTO, employment type, start date, any clauses. The more you paste, the better the read.

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Please choose your state, level, and paste the offer letter.

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Reading your offer, please wait, this can take up to 30 seconds...

Checking salary, employment type, negotiables, and red flags.

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Your Offer Breakdown

A read on what's fair, what's negotiable, and what to watch for. This is guidance, not legal advice. Big decisions still deserve a second opinion.

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\n Overall Read\n

Solid offer with room to negotiate

Your one-line summary goes here.

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\n Salary Check\n

Your offer versus the benchmark

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Detected type

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\n What to Negotiate\n

Push on these, ranked by leverage

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\n Red Flags\n

Watch for these

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\n Next Steps\n

Your three moves this week

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\n Before you sign\n This tool is a first read, not legal review. For a contract-to-hire, 1099, or anything with unusual clauses, have a lawyer or a trusted mentor look at it before you sign. If something feels off, it usually is.\n

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Save as PDF opens the report in a new tab with a Save as PDF button in the corner.

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Your Resume

Use this once your resume is already ID-ready. It gives you targeted tweaks for one posting, checked against current 2026 ATS guidance. For a full resume overhaul, use the Resume Revamp Assistant instead.

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Job Description

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AI-Powered Career Tool

Revamp Your Resume
For Corporate ID

The one-time foundation review for career changers breaking into Instructional Design. Paste your resume and get a full, ID-focused review measured against what corporate instructional designer roles actually look for. Do this once to get your resume ID-ready, then use the Resume Tailor to tweak it for each job you apply to.

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Your Resume

This is the big one-time overhaul. Your resume is reviewed against a representative corporate Instructional Designer role and current 2026 ATS guidance. Applying to a specific job? Use the Resume Tailor instead.

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Resume Professional Summary Coach

For people moving into corporate instructional design

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Build the summary at the top of your resume, the right way

The professional summary is the first thing a hiring manager reads. Most career-change advice tells you to open with \"former teacher transitioning into...\" That's exactly what gets you screened out. This coach helps you position yourself as a capable learning professional whose experience translates, without announcing the pivot in your prime real estate.

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Coach, not writer

This tool does not write your summary for you. You'll get building blocks to assemble yourself, or diagnostic feedback on a draft you already have.

Why: a summary that reads like it was generated gets flagged, by both applicant tracking systems and humans. The words have to be yours. The coach makes sure whatever you write positions you as competent, not confessional.

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Give your target role, paste your resume, and answer a few quick questions.
No draft yet? Get building blocks for two angles to assemble your own summary from.
Already have a draft? Get diagnostic feedback: what's working, what to cut, what's missing.
Write your summary yourself, in your own words, using what the coach gives you.

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About you

The more specific you are, the more specific your coaching will be. Paste your real resume text, not a summary of it.

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Do you already have a summary written?

This decides whether the coach gives you building blocks or feedback on your draft.

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What job title are you targeting?

The exact title you're applying for. The coach mirrors it where it fits.

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Paste your full resume

Work history, education, certifications, skills. The coach only works from what's actually here, it never invents experience you don't have.

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Your instructional design certification

If you have one or are working toward one. This is separate from whether you want it in the summary.

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Want a certification line in your summary?

Your call. The coach never forces it in, even if you have one.

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Shape the voice to the industry you're targeting.

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Softer word choice\n Formal and polished
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One or two lines on what matters most to you here. Skip it if you're not sure.

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The exact summary you've written so far. The coach reacts to this.

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This is scaffolding, not a finished summary. Write your own words from it.

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Portfolio Write-Up and Pitch Coach

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Turn your portfolio sample into a hireable portfolio piece

You finished your sample. Now you need two things that get you interviews: a write-up on your portfolio site and a polished verbal pitch for when an interviewer says \"walk me through this.\"

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Who's giving you feedback

Throughout this tool, you'll get feedback from the perspective of an experienced hiring manager who hires Instructional Designers. That means they know ID language, they know what good design thinking sounds like, and they know what hiring managers actually look for in portfolio write-ups and interviews. They won't flag ID jargon (that's expected). They will flag teacher-speak, vague answers, missing rationale, and anything that doesn't sound like a working ID.

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Create your write-up. Nine sections, guided. You'll paste in work you already did (audience, problem, solution) and create fresh content for Highlights, Process, AI Use, and Evaluation with hiring manager feedback.
Practice your pitch. Five common interview questions about your sample. Speak your answer or type it. Get hiring manager critique on each one.
Save your work. Print or save the write-up to PDF. Copy your polished pitches into your interview prep doc.

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Tools Used

List the tools you used to build your sample. Keep it factual and comma-separated.

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Audience

Pull this from your content map. Paste in the audience you defined when you planned your sample.

You already wrote this. No new thinking required. Go to your content map and copy the audience description into the field below.

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Problem

The business problem your training solves. Pull this from your content map too.

Copy the problem statement straight from your content map. This is the \"why this training matters\" part. Hiring managers care about this a lot.

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Solution

The goal or measurable outcome of your training. From your content map.

This is the goal statement, ideally with a measurable target (reduce errors by X percent, increase compliance by Y, etc.). Paste it from your content map.

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Highlights

The design moves you made. This is where you show you think like an ID, not just a builder.

What to include: the strategies you applied (scenario-based, chunking, spaced practice), any standout interactions in your build, and specific moves you made to enhance the learning experience for your learners.

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Example highlights (retail associate training)

Applied several design strategies to engage learners:

A branching scenario simulating a real customer complaint conversation, with different response paths depending on the choice the learner makes
Chunked the content into five-minute modules with logical sequencing
Knowledge checks with targeted feedback after every section
A downloadable job aid for quick reference during a shift

Interactions used: drag-and-drop sorting, click-to-reveal product details, the branching customer scenario, marker hotspots on a product display image, tabbed FAQ, slider for pricing tiers.

Use this as a structural reference. Create yours about your actual sample.

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Process

Walk through how you approached the project from analysis to delivery. Show your ID thinking, not just your building.

What to include: the analysis you would do (or did) before building, design document and storyboard work, the development tool, and the final deliverable format.

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Example process (retail associate training)

Before development, a needs analysis would be conducted with store managers and tenured associates to confirm training was the right solution and not a coaching or process issue. A scoping meeting with subject matter experts and operations leadership would define the scope and sequence and set clear, measurable learning objectives. A design document captured the blueprint, and a storyboard mapped out every interaction before development started.

During development, the storyboard was built out in Articulate Storyline with all approved interactions, voiceover, and assessments. The deliverable to the client was a SCORM-compliant package ready to load into their LMS.

Yours will look different depending on your actual sample. Use this for structure.

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AI Use

Explain if and how you used AI at any point while creating this sample. Being upfront about this is a strength, not a weakness. If you didn't use AI at all, just say so.

What to include: where in the process you used AI (research, drafting, storyboarding, script writing, images, etc.), what you asked it to do, and what you changed or added yourself. If you didn't use AI anywhere in the process, one sentence saying that is enough.

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Example AI use (retail associate training)

Used ChatGPT to brainstorm realistic customer complaint scenarios for the branching interaction, then rewrote the dialogue myself to match the tone and reading level of the audience. Used Claude to tighten the wording on knowledge-check feedback so it sounded encouraging rather than clinical. Built the storyboard, design document, and all final content myself.

If you didn't use AI, write something like: \"I didn't use AI for this sample. All research, writing, and design decisions were mine.\" Either way, this section gets used.

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Evaluation

How you would measure whether the training actually worked. This is where most career changers stop short and lose hiring managers.

What to include: Kirkpatrick levels if you used them (Level 2 is knowledge checks, Level 3 is on-the-job behavior change), how you'd collect the data, and who'd review it.

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Example evaluation (retail associate training)

Kirkpatrick Level 2 is measured throughout the course with scenario-based knowledge checks and a final pass-fail assessment that mirrors situations associates face on the floor. Learners must pass the final to complete the course.

Kirkpatrick Level 3 is measured on the job. Floor managers track behavior using a 60-day observation checklist, capturing whether associates apply the trained skills in real customer interactions. Results are reviewed monthly with the L&D team and used to identify whether additional support or refresher content is needed.

If you didn't deploy to real learners, write this as \"would be measured by.\" Hiring managers know it's a portfolio sample.

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Additional Deliverables

Link the supporting documents from your sample so hiring managers can see the depth of your work.

No writing needed here. On your portfolio page, add a section called Additional Deliverables with links to each of the supporting documents below. Make sure each link is set to \"Anyone with the link can view.\"

Sections to link:

Design Document
Storyboard
Job Aid
Voiceover Script

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Five questions hiring managers actually ask about your portfolio sample. For each one, you'll get a frame, you'll speak (or type) your answer, and you'll get hiring manager feedback. Aim for 60 to 90 seconds per answer.

Voice input uses your browser's built-in speech recognition. Works best in Chrome and Edge. If voice doesn't work for you, just type your answer.

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Open a printable version of your write-up. From the print dialog you can choose \"Save as PDF\" to download a copy, or print it directly.

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Portfolio Score Card

Find out if your portfolio would survive a hiring manager's first look

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Portfolio Interview Simulator

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Mock Interview

Practice defending one portfolio piece before a real hiring manager does.

Pick one eLearning module from your portfolio. Answer a few questions about it so the interviewer has context. Then get grilled with the questions ID hiring managers actually ask. When you're done, you'll get feedback on how you presented your work and where to tighten up.

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How this works

Fill out a short intake about one Storyline or Rise sample (about 5 minutes)
Answer 8 interview questions in a chat format (about 15 to 20 minutes)
Get a feedback report with a scorecard and 3 specific improvements
Save your report as a PDF to review later

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Tell the interviewer about your piece.

Answer honestly. The interviewer will use these answers to ask sharp, specific questions. Vague answers here mean generic questions later.

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The piece

Quick facts about the sample.

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This is where interviews get real. Weak business context is the fastest way to lose an interview.

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Real measures: reduced ramp time, higher pass rate, fewer support tickets, better test scores, decreased errors. If you're guessing, say what you'd measure and how.

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Hiring managers care as much about how you work as what you built.

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Your feedback report

Here's how you did.

An honest read on how you presented your work. The interviewer's job is to find the weak spots, so if some of this stings, that's the tool doing its job.

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The Corporate ID Portfolio Blueprint

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1Start Here

Start here.

So, you're building your first ID portfolio and not sure exactly what needs to be in it?

If you want a corporate instructional design job, you need a portfolio. It's the first thing recruiters look at, and if it's missing or has the wrong things in it, you don't get the interview. I will be honest. That's how it works.

Most people building their first portfolio don't know what to include, put in the wrong things, or underestimate how much goes into each piece.

This tool walks you through all of it. What has to be in your portfolio. How to plan the build across 90 days. What each piece needs to look like to land you the job. Plus two downloadable templates you can use as you go.

A few things to know before you start

This is built for corporate ID. Not K-12. Not higher ed. Corporate learning, healthcare training, government and non-profit L&D. That world.
Work through it in order. Each section builds on the last.
You'll build a 90-day plan you can save and come back to.
The templates and checklist are yours to keep.

Ready? Let's start with what good actually looks like.

See what good looks like →

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Before you build, see what you're building toward.

The fastest way to figure out what a strong ID portfolio looks like is to see one. Or a bunch of them.

Look at the portfolios of people who've already landed corporate ID jobs. Notice what kinds of samples they have. How they organized the site. What tools they used. What they wrote about themselves. What they left out.

Where to look

We have a website full of portfolios our students built. You'll see actual Rise samples, Storyline projects, design documents, storyboards, and job aids. All from real people who used these to get hired.

Browse student portfolios →

What to notice as you're looking

Variety. A strong portfolio has different types of samples, not four versions of the same thing.
Polish. The pieces look finished. No placeholders, no half-built samples.
Adult, professional topics. Not education-related. Not personal hobbies.
A clear \"about\" or bio that reads like a competent professional wrote it.

Once you've had a look, come back here. Next up: exactly what needs to be in yours.

See what needs to be in your portfolio →

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3Portfolio Sample Overview

What has to be in your portfolio before you start applying.

Here's the minimum you need before you apply for corporate ID jobs. If any of these are missing, you're going to struggle to get an interview. I will be honest. Probably won't get one. These pieces are non-negotiable.

Required (before you apply)

1 Storyline sample
1 Rise sample
1 design document
1 storyboard
1 job aid

Nice to have (add after you're hired, or during the search if you have time)

A second Storyline sample. Shows variety, especially if the second one is an advanced interaction or microlearning.
An AI-related sample that shows you can use AI tools in the ID workflow.
Vyond video (if you take the elective badge)
Camtasia video (if you take the elective badge)
vILT slide deck and facilitator guide (if you take the elective badge)
Graphic design samples, in their own category, kept separate from your ID work
Real work samples from a previous job, scrubbed of the company name and any proprietary info, and only if you have permission

What NOT to include

This is where a lot of first portfolios go sideways. Do not put any of this in your portfolio:

K-12 or higher ed content. Not even PD you built for other teachers.
Personal hobbies or topics that aren't work-relevant.
Anything controversial. Politics, religion, hot-button social issues.
Photography as a separate category.
Placeholders. An empty spot makes the whole portfolio look unfinished.

Now that you know what needs to be in it, here's how to approach the build without trying to do everything at once.

How to approach the build →

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4How To Approach It

How to approach it without doing it all at once.

A full corporate portfolio is more than you can build in one stretch, so don't try. Think of this as your first 90 days. It won't get you all the way to the finish line, but it'll get you a real start, and a real start is what most people never manage.

Pick one of these two starting points, then work top to bottom. Give it 10 to 12 hours a week if you can. Less is okay, it just moves slower. What matters is that you protect the time and keep going.

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Starting point 1

Build your Storyline sample

The most demanding piece, and demanding enough to be its own project. If Storyline is the thing scaring you, start here and go in this order:

Plan and create your content map. Your planning document. Map out the topic, goal and business problem, audience, objectives, content, and sequence before you build. Grab the content map template from the resources below.
Learn beginning Storyline. Get comfortable with the basics of the tool first. You can't design for software you don't know yet.
Create your first draft. Get a rough version of the course out of your head and built in the tool.
Learn advanced Storyline. Pick up the advanced interactions and features that make a sample stand out.
Iterate, polish, QA, and publish. Refine it, run the checklist, then get it live with a short write-up of your process.

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Build the other four pieces

Your Rise sample, design document, storyboard, and job aid. Four lighter pieces you can move through faster, then come back for Storyline. Work in this order:

Rise sample. Plan it with a content map the same way, then build it in the Rise free trial.
Design document. Build it after your sample, based on the same course. It's a pared-down version of your content map, in the format corporate teams actually use. Template below.
Storyboard. Also based on the sample you built, created after you know the tool. A clean, screen-by-screen map a reviewer can follow.
Job aid. A quick, polished win. One strong corporate job aid.

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Enter your email to unlock the standards for every piece, plus a printable portfolio checklist and the two templates you'll need. Yours to save and come back to.

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5Build Each Piece

How to build each piece to a professional standard.

Five required pieces, five sets of standards. Tap through each one. This is where you'll see exactly what separates a portfolio that gets interviews from one that gets skipped.

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Rise

Storyline

Design Doc

Storyboard

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Building your Rise sample.

Rise is where a lot of career changers start with authoring tools because it's the more approachable of the two. Don't take that to mean easy. A strong Rise sample takes real planning and real thought before you ever open the software.

Here are the 9 steps to plan your Rise sample before you build. Work through these in order.

Planning your Rise sample

Choose your topic. Corporate topic, adult audience, work-relevant. Not education-related. Not controversial. Not a personal hobby.
Define your goal and business problem. What problem does this training solve for the business? What's the outcome?
Define your audience. Who is this for? What's their role, their context, their level?
Identify the actions needed to meet the goal. What does the learner have to be able to do by the end?
Write learning objectives. Action verbs, measurable, aligned to the actions.
Brainstorm and analyze source content. What do you already have or know? What do you need to research?
Chunk and sequence your content. Break it into logical groups. Order it so cognitive load stays manageable.
Create the performance-based assessment. How will you check that the learner can do the thing?
Create your content map. The full blueprint of the module before you touch Rise. Use the content map template in the resources below.

Once your plan is solid, then you open Rise.

What a strong Rise sample includes

A clear topic that fits corporate ID
Learning objectives you can actually measure
Interactive elements (not just a text scroll with a quiz at the end)
A knowledge check or performance-based assessment
Clean visual design that uses Rise's built-in style options well
A recognizable corporate use case (not a hobby, not a personal interest)

Where people get tripped up: Most first-time builders skip straight to step 9 (the content map) or worse, skip straight to Rise itself. Then they build something that looks okay on the surface but doesn't teach anyone anything. Recruiters spot that immediately. The planning steps aren't optional. They're how you build something that shows you actually know what you're doing.

If working through those 9 steps on your own is more than you want to figure out solo, the 30-Day Rise Sprint walks you through building your Rise sample with support. Same process, with guidance and feedback so you don't get stuck.

LINK NEEDED: Rise Sprint enrollment URL

See the Rise Sprint →

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Building your Storyline sample.

Storyline is where corporate IDs prove they can build the more complex, custom eLearning that companies actually pay for. It's PowerPoint on steroids, and it takes more skill to build well than Rise does.

The planning process is the same 9 steps as Rise (see the Rise tab). Same discipline: plan the whole thing before you open Storyline. Skipping the planning is the fastest way to build a Storyline sample that looks impressive on the surface and falls apart when a hiring manager clicks through it.

What a strong Storyline sample includes

Custom interactions (not just Rise-style block templates rebuilt in Storyline)
At least one advanced interaction: drag-and-drop, branching scenario, meaningful click-to-reveal, or a simulation
A knowledge check or performance-based assessment
Custom design (not the default template)
Voice-over or captions if audio is used. Accessibility is expected in corporate.

Where people get tripped up

Building something too simple. If your Storyline sample could have been done in Rise, you're missing the point of Storyline.
Building something too complicated. A branching scenario that goes 30 levels deep and never resolves isn't impressive, it's confusing.
Poor design. Clip art, default templates, mismatched fonts. This piece needs to look like something a company would actually deploy.
Not planning your sample out. Your Storyline sample should go through the same nine planning steps you used for Rise before you open Storyline. Skip that and a hiring manager can tell.

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Building your design document.

The design document is the strategic blueprint for a piece of learning: the business problem, the audience, the objectives, the approach. Corporate IDs write these constantly, and producing one proves you can think like an ID, not just build in a tool.

It looks a lot like your content map, so here's the difference. Your content map is the detailed planning document you built your sample from. The design document is a pared-down, higher-level version of it, and it's the format corporate teams actually use to align stakeholders. That's exactly why it makes a strong portfolio sample on its own: it's a real corporate artifact.

One note on timing: on the job the design document comes before the build, but for your portfolio, create it after, based on the Rise or Storyline sample you already built. Same course, no new project to invent, and you'll know it well enough to write the doc quickly.

What a strong design document includes

Project overview and background
The business problem and the goal of the training
Learner audience analysis
Learning objectives
Deliverables (what will be built, in what format, on what timeline)
High-level content outline
Assessment strategy
Success measures

Download the template

We have a design document template you can use. Same structure we teach inside Applied Instructional Design Academy, and it maps to what corporate hiring managers expect.

FILE NEEDED: design document template PDF link

Download design document template (PDF)

Where people get tripped up

Making it too vague. A design doc that says \"the audience is employees\" and \"the goal is to teach them the process\" tells a hiring manager nothing.
Making it too long. It's a working document, not a novel. Focused beats comprehensive.

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Building your storyboard.

A storyboard maps a learning experience screen by screen: what the learner sees, hears, and does. It's a standalone portfolio sample that shows a hiring manager you can plan at that level of detail and that you understand the ID workflow.

Here's the part that sounds backwards: build your storyboard after you've learned the tool, not before. On the job, the storyboard comes first, because an experienced ID already knows the tool. But you can't design a storyboard for an authoring tool you've never used. You have to learn what it can actually do first, then you can map out a course that uses it well. Building your portfolio, you're learning the tool as you go, so the order flips. And like the design document, your storyboard can be based on the Rise or Storyline sample you already built. Same course, no new project to invent.

What a strong storyboard includes

Screen-by-screen layout (visual sketch or wireframe)
On-screen text
Narration or voice-over script
Interactions and what happens on click
Notes for the developer (or yourself, if you're building it)
References to the learning objectives each screen supports

Format: PowerPoint works. Word works. Some IDs use Miro or Figma. Pick something that reads clearly and looks like a real work artifact.

Where people get tripped up

Confusing the storyboard with the design document. Different levels of detail. The design doc is the strategy, the storyboard is the execution plan.
Skipping the interaction notes. If the storyboard doesn't show what the learner does on each screen, it's just a slide deck.
Making it visually messy. Corporate storyboards are professional artifacts, not sketchbook doodles.

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Building your job aid.

A job aid is a quick-reference document a learner uses at the moment of need. Not a training. Not a course. A single-page or short reference tool that helps someone do their job better right now.

Corporate IDs get asked to build these constantly. Including one in your portfolio shows you can design for real workplace performance, not just seat-time training.

What a strong job aid includes

Clear task or scenario the aid supports
Step-by-step instructions or a decision tree
Clean visual layout the reader can scan
Corporate design (not clip art, not a Google Doc with default fonts)
One page ideally, two at most

Format: PDF is standard. Some IDs build these in InDesign, Canva, or PowerPoint. Whatever tool you use, the output has to look like something a real company would print, hand out, or post on an intranet.

Where people get tripped up

Making it too long. A job aid is not a workbook.
Choosing a topic that's not job-relevant. This is for workplace performance, not personal use.
Skipping the visual design. A wall of text is not a job aid. Layout matters here as much as content.

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6Resources

Three resources to help as you build.

Everything you need to reference as you work through your portfolio pieces.

Content map template (PDF)

Your planning document. Fill this in first to plan your Storyline or Rise sample before you build. It's the same planning tool we use inside Applied Instructional Design Academy.

FILE NEEDED: content map template PDF link

Download content map template

Design document template (PDF)

The same structure we teach in Applied Instructional Design Academy. Use it as your starting point for any design doc you build.

FILE NEEDED: design document template PDF link

Download design document template

Storyline QA checklist (PDF)

Before you call your Storyline sample done, run through this checklist. It's the same one Applied Instructional Design Academy students use to catch the issues hiring managers notice.

FILE NEEDED: Storyline QA checklist PDF link

Download Storyline QA checklist

One more thing →

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7Take It Further

Would you like to take this further?

You've just seen everything that goes into a portfolio that gets you hired. If the Rise sample is the piece you'd rather not figure out alone, that's exactly what the 30-Day Rise Sprint is for.

It's a short, focused program where I walk you through building one strong Rise sample from start to finish. The kind that looks like a working ID made it, not someone brand new. In 30 days you go from a blank screen to a finished, published sample you can put straight in your portfolio.

Here's what you get

A 5-week guided path: plan and content map, build in Rise, get feedback, revise, then polish and publish
Live coaching calls twice a week for support, accountability, and getting unstuck
Expert feedback on your sample, with back-and-forth until it earns our stamp of approval
The Map Your Sprint planning tool and a day-by-day tracker so you always know your next step
An AI prompt pack for the full ID workflow
A community building their samples right alongside you
No expensive software required. The Rise free trial covers the whole thing.

By the end, the piece you were most worried about building on your own is done, and it's one a hiring manager will actually respect.

LINK NEEDED: Rise Sprint enrollment URL

Enroll in the 30-Day Rise Sprint →

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LinkedIn Profile Reviewer

For aspiring instructional designers

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Get an honest read on your LinkedIn profile

This reviews your profile section by section the way a recruiter and an ID hiring manager would in 2026. You get a score for each section, what's working, what's costing you, and the specific fixes to make first. It's built for career changers moving into corporate Instructional Design, so it knows the difference between a profile that names all the right ID words and one that still reads like a teacher describing teaching.

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How to think about your profile

Claim the role. You're an Instructional Designer, not an aspiring one and not a teacher exploring ID. Write forward, from what you build now.

Translate, don't list. Your teaching and prior-career wins count, but they need corporate learning language: learners not students, stakeholders not administrators, content development not lesson planning.

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Tell us your first name and whether you're in AIDA.
Upload your profile as a PDF, or paste each section in yourself.
Check off the ID skills that are already on your profile.
Get a scored, section-by-section review with your fixes ranked.

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Let's look at your profile

The more you give the reviewer, the sharper your feedback. Vague in, vague out.

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Quick basics

Your first name just personalizes your results and the report you can save. The AIDA answer changes how your Education and Certifications get read.

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\n Are you enrolled in AIDA (the Applied Instructional Design Academy)?\n

\n Yes, I'm an AIDA student or grad\n No\n

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Your profile content

Upload your profile as a PDF (fastest), or paste each section in. Either way, the reviewer reads the same sections.

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Which of these are in your Skills section?

Check only the ones actually listed on your profile right now, not what you wish was there. This is how the reviewer scores your Skills.

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\n LMS platforms\n

\n Cornerstone OnDemand\n Workday Learning\n SAP SuccessFactors\n Docebo\n Moodle\n TalentLMS\n

\n Frameworks & standards\n

\n ADDIE\n SAM\n Bloom's Taxonomy\n Kirkpatrick Model\n SCORM\n xAPI\n

\n Core ID practices\n

\n Instructional Design\n eLearning Development\n Curriculum Design\n Needs Analysis\n Learning Objectives\n Storyboarding\n Assessment Design\n Microlearning\n

\n Other skills on your profile worth naming (comma separated)\n \n

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Reading your profile...

Hang tight. This takes about 20 to 40 seconds.

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LinkedIn Headline Generator

For aspiring instructional designers

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Write a LinkedIn headline that gets hiring managers to click

Your LinkedIn headline is 220 characters of prime real estate. When ID recruiters and hiring managers search for candidates, this is what they see first. Get it right and you get pulled into more searches, more profile views, more conversations.

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How this works

A hiring manager who hires IDs will look at your inputs and generate three headline options, each with a different angle and the reasoning behind why it works.

The rule: if instructional design is the role you want, you claim the title. No aspiring, no transitioning, no former teacher. Your headline is where you claim the role. Everything else on your profile fills in the story.

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Answer five quick questions about the role you're going after and the skills you actually have.
Get three headline options, each with a different angle so you can pick what fits.
Read the \"why this works\" behind each one so you learn what makes a headline compelling.
Not seeing what you want? Generate up to two more rounds (nine headlines total).

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Tell the hiring manager about you

Answer honestly. Only claim tools and specialties you can actually back up in an interview or portfolio.

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What role are you targeting?

Pick as many as you'd genuinely apply for. Job titles vary across companies.

\n Instructional Designer\n Learning Experience Designer\n eLearning Developer\n Learning & Development Specialist\n Curriculum Developer\n Training Developer\n

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Any industry or sector focus?

Pick one if you have a strong preference, or leave \"Open to all\" selected. Being open is totally fine, especially early on.

\n Open to all industries\n Corporate (general)\n Healthcare\n Tech / SaaS\n Financial Services\n Government\n Nonprofit\n Sales Enablement\n Compliance / Regulated\n

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Which tools can you actually use?

Only check tools you can genuinely work in. If it shows up in your headline and a hiring manager asks you about it, you should be able to talk about it.

\n Articulate Storyline\n Articulate Rise 360\n Adobe Captivate\n Camtasia\n Vyond\n Canva\n Figma\n LMS experience\n

\n Any other tool worth naming? (Optional, one or two max)\n \n

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What kind of learning do you want to be known for?

Pick one or two that genuinely fit. If nothing quite fits, pick \"Keep it general\" and we'll lead with your skill stack instead.

\n Scenario-based / branching scenarios\n Microlearning\n Interactive / gamified learning\n Visual storytelling\n Compliance training that people don't dread\n Onboarding\n Sales enablement / product training\n Technical / software training\n Behavior change / performance focused\n Accessibility-first design\n Keep it general (I'm open right now)\n

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Where are you coming from?

Context only. This won't appear in your headline. It helps the hiring manager spot anything worth translating forward.

\n K-12 teacher\n Higher ed\n Corporate trainer or L&D-adjacent\n Corporate, different function\n Something else\n

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Your headline options Round 1 of 3

Each option leads with a different angle. Read the \"why this works\" on each to pick the one that fits you best. Tweak the wording however you like once you've chosen.

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Informational Interview Wingman

Your game plan for turning one conversation into momentum

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Tell me who you're meeting

Fill this out once you've got the informational interview on the calendar. I'll build your question game plan, your soft ask for the end of the call, and your follow-up messages, all tailored to who you're talking to.

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\n Who are they, mainly?\n

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Instructional Design Fit Quiz

Learning Strategy & Design

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2-minute quiz

How Much of an Instructional Designer Are You Already?

You might be further in than you think. Answer a few quick questions and get your personalized Instructional Design Fit Profile. Takes less than 5 minutes.

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Almost there

Where should I send your Instructional Design Fit Profile?

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Your results show up right here on the next screen. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.

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Reading your answers and writing your Profile. This can take up to 30 seconds, hang tight.

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ID Cover Letter Generator

Paste your resume and a job description, answer one question about what drew you to the role, and get a half-page cover letter draft. Built for career changers breaking into Instructional Design.

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Your Resume

Paste the full text of your resume. Just the words. No PDF needed.

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The Job Posting

Paste the full job description you are applying for.

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A Few Quick Questions

The resume and job description do the heavy lifting. These fill in what they cannot.

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Be specific. One or two sentences. This is what keeps the letter from sounding generic. Optional but strongly recommended.

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Reading your resume and the job posting, please wait, this can take up to 30 seconds...

Hang tight.

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Your Cover Letter Draft

A starting point, not a final draft. Read it out loud and adjust so it sounds like you.

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\n What we noticed\n Here is the strongest match between your resume and this job\n

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\n Before you send this\n Don't send this word for word. It's a starting point, not a finished letter. Read all the way through, swap any word that is not yours, and adjust until it sounds like you. Use it as a guide, not a script. The recruiter needs to hear you on the page, not a template.\n

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LinkedIn About Section Coach

For aspiring instructional designers

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Get a brief for your About section, not a draft

Your LinkedIn About section is where a hiring manager decides whether to keep reading. Recruiters can spot an AI-written About from three lines away, so this tool won't write it for you. It asks you a handful of questions and hands you back the raw material: a hook to open with, proof points to name, skills to include, and how to close. You write the paragraph, in your own words.

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How this works

Answer six quick questions about your target role, your pivot, a win you're proud of, your tools, and where your portfolio lives.

The rule: nothing you get back is a finished sentence. It's fragments and bullets, on purpose. If it read like a paragraph you could paste straight in, it would read like AI wrote it, and recruiters are actively screening for that in 2026.

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Answer six questions about your target role, your background, and your proof.
Get a brief back: hook options, proof points to name, skills to include, and closing lines.
Write your About section yourself, in your own voice, using the brief as scaffolding.
Not quite right? Get a fresh brief up to two more times.

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About you

Answer honestly. The more specific you are, the more specific your brief will be. Vague answers get vague briefs.

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Quick basics

Your first name just personalizes your brief. The AIDA answer shapes the credibility guidance you get.

\n First name\n \n

\n Are you enrolled in AIDA?\n

\n Yes, I'm an AIDA student\n No\n

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What role are you targeting?

Pick as many as you'd genuinely apply for.

\n Instructional Designer\n Learning Experience Designer\n eLearning Developer\n Learning & Development Specialist\n Curriculum Developer\n Training Developer\n

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Your pivot

Your About opens with what you build now, not your past. The past is context for the coach, not your opening line.

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\n What did you do before? (context only, won't open your About)\n \n

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A win you're proud of

One specific project, result, or piece of feedback. A number or a name makes it land.

Skip \"passionate about learning.\" Try \"redesigned onboarding to cut ramp time by two weeks\" or \"built a Storyline module for my AIDA capstone project.\" Don't have one yet? Leave it blank and the coach will tell you what to go build.

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Which tools and methods do you know?

Only check what you can genuinely talk about in an interview or point to in a portfolio.

\n Authoring tools\n

\n Articulate Storyline\n Articulate Rise 360\n Adobe Captivate\n Camtasia\n Vyond\n Canva\n Figma\n

\n LMS platforms\n

\n Cornerstone OnDemand\n Workday Learning\n SAP SuccessFactors\n Moodle\n Docebo\n TalentLMS\n

\n Frameworks and methods\n

\n ADDIE\n SAM\n Kirkpatrick Model\n

\n AI tools you've used\n

\n ChatGPT\n Claude\n Microsoft Copilot\n Google Gemini\n NotebookLM\n

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Where you point people next

Every About section closes with a next step. This is yours.

Heads up. Links pasted into the About section don't become clickable on LinkedIn. If you have a portfolio link, put the actual link in your Featured section or your Contact Info website field. Here, just tell us what to call it or where it lives, in words, not a URL.

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This is scaffolding, not a draft. Use it to write your own paragraph, in your own voice.

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ID Offer Decoder

Where and What Level

Paste the Offer Letter

Your Offer Breakdown

Solid offer with room to negotiate

Your offer versus the benchmark

Detected type

Push on these, ranked by leverage

Watch for these

Your three moves this week

Corporate Glossary

E-mail Communication

You're thinking corporate.

Salary Negotiation Assistant

Tailor Your ResumeTo This Job

Your Resume

Job Description

Revamp Your ResumeFor Corporate ID

Your Resume

🏫 Educator Skills → ID Language Translator

Resume Professional Summary Coach

Build the summary at the top of your resume, the right way

Coach, not writer

About you

Do you already have a summary written?

What job title are you targeting?

Paste your full resume

Your instructional design certification

Want a certification line in your summary?

What tone are you going for?

Anything you want to lead with? (optional)

Paste your current draft summary

Your coaching Round 1 of 3

You've hit the 3-round limit

Portfolio Write-Up and Pitch Coach

Turn your portfolio sample into a hireable portfolio piece

Who's giving you feedback

Tools Used

Audience

Problem

Solution

Highlights

Example highlights (retail associate training)

Hiring manager feedback REVIEW

Process

Example process (retail associate training)

Hiring manager feedback REVIEW

AI Use

Example AI use (retail associate training)

Hiring manager feedback REVIEW

Evaluation

Example evaluation (retail associate training)

Hiring manager feedback REVIEW

Additional Deliverables

Practice your pitch out loud

Write-Up Preview

Save your work

Portfolio Score Card

Portfolio Interview Simulator

Practice defending one portfolio piece before a real hiring manager does.

How this works

Tell the interviewer about your piece.

Here's how you did.

Scorecard

3 things to sharpen

Overall

Start here.

Before you build, see what you're building toward.

What has to be in your portfolio before you start applying.

How to approach it without doing it all at once.

Build your Storyline sample

Build the other four pieces

How to build each piece to a professional standard.

Building your Rise sample.

Building your Storyline sample.

Building your design document.

Building your storyboard.

Building your job aid.

Three resources to help as you build.

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