Forget educating yourself for a minute – educate others to boost your resume

Do you know more than you think you know?

Or have you forgotten more than most people will ever know in your field?

Or do you believe in the saying, “You teach best what you most need to learn”?

Then when it comes to career education, may I suggest the reverse of what I normally talk about, and get you to actually consider teaching in your field?

From Chambers of Commerce to Rotary Clubs, community colleges to graduate schools, industry events to professional chapter meetings, getting in front of an audience to share your knowledge can be a very good thing.

Why, you ask?

1. Gets you better known in your field. Think that would help you from a networking perspective, when it comes time to shop around a resume? You bet.

2. Makes you more highly regarded in your field. Also very useful at resume time.

3. Keeps you on your toes. It’s great practice for the one-on-one of interviews – especially since public speaking often hits in the top 2 or 3 things people generally fear most. If you can do public speaking, job interviews are a comparative breeze.

4. Improves your confidence. Also great for your job search process. No one wants to hand a six-figure salary to a nervous person, right?

5. Lets you know what people are thinking or wondering about in your field. When you find out what topics people want you to speak about, and when you get the targeted questions thrown at you after a speaking engagement, you get the kind of market research that comes in handy when it’s time to make a case for yourself as the best new management hire a company could make.

Need some speaking practice? You’ll find Toastmasters chapters all over the country. Don’t worry about the fact that you’ll be starting small with them. It took dozens, even hundreds of speaking engagements for some of the world’s best speakers and performers to get comfortable in their craft. Might as well work the kinks out with a small and supportive audience…

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