detectivegibbles

Sales Director

Anyone know of orgs that like to hire teachers?

What up savages!

Been off the grid for a few months with family, work, and some other endeavors I'm pursuing.

Hope the resolutions are in tact (minus your dependency on stimulants to continue smashing quotas).

Question for the War Room - my wife has formally made the choice to leave the teaching profession. After 10 years in the classroom, she's ready for a change and a challenge.

Anyone know of companies that like to hire teachers? She DOES NOT want to be in sales and looking for remote role. Tons of skills that would translate to many roles so we're open to ideas but figured it was worth checking the WR! Thanks in advance!

Cheers!

-Gibbles

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jefe

Arsonist

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Corporate training roles - not sales enablement, but general training at larger organizations.

Anything admin, though that's probably the least exciting avenue.

I'd also explore roles at EdTech companies - they're like to be very amenable to and appreciative of teaching experience.

Note: Teachers are criminally underpaid in the US. It's awful.

Best of luck to Mrs. Gibbles!

pirate

Big Shot

🦜☠️ Account Executive

Edtech is a really good shout! Plus I know a few people in edtech who were teachers who were hired as Customer Success and they were the absolute best at what they did

HVACexpert

Politicker

sales engineer

I personally know of teachers who got hired into corporate training roles

SgtAE

WR Officer

seconded here. at my first company for the entire first month we had a corporate trainer who was definitely a teacher 30 days we felt like we were back in primary school hahah

SaaSsy

Politicker

SE roles at big publisher EdTech companies - love the teaching experience and you do a lot of classroom implementation and teacher training. CS or product training.

detectivegibbles

Politicker

Sales Director

She’s applied for a lot of curriculum development roles. She has a knack for that kind of “idea to substance” phase of work.

Wondering if she should peak into some of these roles. Thank ya SaaSsy!

oldcloser

Arsonist

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Thanks for letting me off the hook for choosing to increase stimulant dependency. Good to see you @detectivegibbles . I've got a thought. My wife had a similar quest and landed in LLM training. It's remote, intense focus required. The pay isn't great but keeps her where she prefers, without commute. DM if you'd like more

detectivegibbles

Politicker

Sales Director

Dm sent my friend!

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

Sales Enablement and Corp Training roles

punishedlad

Tycoon

Business Development Team Lead

I was going to recommend my employer, but we don't do remote unless you're in sales.

detectivegibbles

Politicker

Sales Director

I’d be curious…maybe I could “sell” her on at least applying.

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

hit send too soon. See previous post

detectivegibbles

Politicker

Sales Director

I appreciate the feedback all.

I should have prefaced this a bit more. She’s applied to a healthy amount of Ed tech positions. The volume of teachers leaving the classroom is a massive problem that isn’t being talked about in mainstream media.

Point being, these positions have hundreds and hundreds of applicants.

Moreso than ever, she needs to network her ass off. She’s insanely qualified having led multiple curriculum development initiatives, yearbook design, etc. but she’s not even getting reply emails for interviews.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Where the hell u been?

detectivegibbles

Politicker

Sales Director

Missed you boo. Last 6 months of 2023 were challenging. Just had to take a step back and be present with some things. Family health issues, company was acquired, wife career change, more involved with church, leading a mens group, all on top of being a husband/dad.

We're back baby :)

What's exciting/hard/challenging on your end?! I want to hear it all.

Armageddon

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

Bless up, 2024 is here and we’re all gonna seize it. Family time is important 🙏

rharris415

Contributor

Founder

Any company that refuses to hire a teacher for any reason other than maybe dev, is missing a tremendous opportunity.

I’d encourage her to rethink sales. It’s the easiest place to make a ton of money and it’s not a “dirty” job if that’s their concern.

detectivegibbles

Politicker

Sales Director

She'd be tremendous at sales, way better than me frankly (i suck).

However, it's just not the lane she wants to be in.

100% agree with your statement though. People undervalue the skills teachers bring to the table. Organization, clear precise communication, structure, etc. let alone "managing/leading" 100+ people (students) while giving constructive feedback to help them grow.

Armageddon

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

My wife is the same way. Shes an RN and so burnt out, she always says, I could never do sales! She would be incredible at it, amazing listener and always gets people talking.

The thing is, she’s got a front row seat for my emotional roller coaster of a career and wants nothing to do with it 😂

SaaSguy

Tycoon

Account Executive

Salesforce - selling into edtech, schools, etc.
I have met many AE's who had a teaching background -> sdr -> AE at Salesforce.

snacks

Opinionated

EdTech is the way my friend! DM me, I can help with some networking

saaskicker

Celebrated Contributor

Enterprise AE

YouTuber - take down Ms. Rachel.

medhardwaredr

Opinionated

Director of Sales NA

Edtech or training positions

DataCorrupter

Politicker

Account Executive

Yo, what about customer success? It's basically babysitting and teaching, but customers instead of kids?
All the CS folk I've worked with had a college degree and that's it, no real pre-requisites to the job, just taking care of customers and finding a potential upsell (depending on the company). I have a teacher friend I'm trying to get into tech as a CS.

detectivegibbles

Politicker

Sales Director

Thanks so much to everyone that reached out. Have some promising leads for the wife to dig into.

❤️ ❤️

kitxkatxx

Contributor

AE/Full cycle sales betch

Message me! Former teacher turned seller- did freelance technical writing and project management in tech before selling SaaS. Teachers are badass sellers, I wonder if I could convince her 🤔

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