Free LinkedIn career change story carousel template

The Career Pivot

A career-change story for LinkedIn, told on a timeline rail that fills in sea-glass green as the years go by.

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What’s on the slides

Slide 1
Teacher → product manager
I changed careers at 34. It took 5 years.
Slide 2
Year 9 science teacher
The Sunday night dread
I loved the kids and hated the system. I started building spreadsheets to track homework, then tiny apps. Other teachers asked for copies.
The hobby was the clue. I just didn’t see it yet.
Slide 3
Still teaching, learning at night
200 rejections
A UX course, a portfolio of three projects, and 200 applications. Four interviews. Every one asked for “product experience”.
Nobody hires a career changer for a CV. They hire a story.
Slide 4
Support specialist, ed-tech
The side door
I took a 20% pay cut for a support role at a learning company. Within a year I was the person PMs asked “what do teachers actually do?”.
Get inside the building first. Then walk down the hall.
Slide 5
Product manager
The title caught up
An internal move to associate PM, then PM. I now ship features for 40,000 classrooms. The classroom years are my edge, not a gap.
The past you’re escaping is often the thing that makes you rare.
Slide 6
What I’d tell myself in 2019
Your old job is your niche, not your baggage
A side door beats a front door
Talk to 20 people before you apply to 200 jobs
Slide 7
Thinking about a pivot?
Tell me what you do now and where you want to go. I answer every comment.

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