Instructional designer and Salesforce administrator in Minneapolis, building workforce programs for adult learners.
Five practice job applications, one for each kind job seekers actually run into: a big-company applicant tracking system, Easy Apply, text to apply, a staffing agency, and a government application.
Learners upload practice résumés, catch what the autofill gets wrong, fix it against the résumé, and finish with a completion code for Moodle. Each application has its own link, so a course can assign them one at a time.
Try the practice job searchA CAPM certification course for working adults, with branching Storyline scenarios at the center of every unit.
Every unit runs the same loop: a Rise organizer, a short video, a branching scenario, flashcards, a quiz, and a unit test.
A short self-paced course clients take while they wait to meet a career navigator.
Four lessons: what a résumé has to do, get it out of your head, cut five bullets down to three, then type it up and bring it in.
Open the courseI built the tracking backward from the sentence a grant report needs to say.
Four Northstar-aligned courses that treat digital literacy as job search, built to run without me.
Job search is objective one: Indeed, job boards, résumé uploads, and a résumé template. Every session carries real work, so nobody sits through eighty minutes of “turn on your computer.”
I’m a poet, and I design the way I write. I think big and I polish. At its core, writing is revising what I make, and so is design.
I’ve worked at educational nonprofits from janitor to instructional designer. At Summit Academy I was handed a GED curriculum and two subjects. Running five cohorts a year, I tinkered with the course until it settled at a 90 percent pass rate, and three of my learners earned perfect scores on the GED essay.
At Urban League Twin Cities there were no students and no curriculum when I started, so I began as a job coach and built both: four asynchronous courses, a digital literacy pathway, and the Salesforce system that tracks it all.
Instructional design is friction without chafing. If it’s too difficult, nobody engages. If it’s fluff, people get sick of it. I tinker until the friction is right. Revising the way we teach adults starting on new paths is the only mission I see fit to take part in.