Teachers have quit in droves during the pandemic. Sometimes bumpy, their paths provide a lesson plan for others looking to leap from the classroom to the corporate world.
Nationwide, former educators are starting jobs in sales, software, healthcare, training services and other hot fields, and more say they want to follow suit. As in demand as they are, however, forging a post-teaching career can be tricky.
Many teachers in transition say they are confronted with a mystifying array of training programs and online career coaches. They lack a compass for charting a job search in the business world and are often stuck at even the first step.
The upshot for many is that their path to a new career is often littered with false starts or money wasted on counterproductive training. Some former teachers struggle to adjust to the rhythms of corporate life….
