Teacher → Recruiter

This is a easy transition with a typical 4-month runway and 42% skill overlap. Expect a +41% salary change, with strongest hiring demand in USA, UK, Canada. Employers hiring today include Amazon, Google, Meta. Focus your first 60 days on closing the gap in role-specific tooling and vocabulary.

1. 1Audit your Teacher experience for transferable skills that map to Recruiter.
2. 2Close the top skill gap: role-specific tooling.
3. 3Build 2–3 portfolio artifacts that demonstrate Recruiter outcomes.
4. 4Reshape your resume and LinkedIn around Recruiter keywords and outcomes, not job titles.
5. 5Run a targeted outreach loop to Recruiter hiring managers at Amazon, Google, Meta.

• ▸Why are you moving from Teacher to Recruiter?
• ▸Walk me through a Teacher project where you applied skills relevant to Recruiter.
• ▸Which parts of a Recruiter role are new to you, and how are you closing that gap?
• ▸Where do you see yourself as a Recruiter in 3 years?
• ▸Tell me about a stakeholder disagreement and how you resolved it.

• ▸Lead with a positioning line: "Teacher transitioning to Recruiter, focused on Full-cycle Recruiting and Communication."
• ▸Reframe Teacher accomplishments using Recruiter vocabulary — outcomes, not tasks.
• ▸Surface 42% of overlapping skills at the top; put Teacher-only work later.
• ▸Add a "Selected projects" section featuring 2 artifacts aligned to Recruiter.
• ▸Quantify impact: dollars, users, uptime, cycle time — whatever a Recruiter manager cares about.