174- From Teacher to Tech with Yanira Sesniak

The Teacher Career Coach Podcast

Daphne Gomez

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.4 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Yanira Sesniak was a high school English teacher for 5 years before she made her transition into tech. She knew it was time to reflect on her work life balance and her career goals. Join us as we learn about what steps she took to get into the tech world and how knowing how to communicate your strengths is key when interviewing in today's world. Find Yanira on Linkedin. Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you? Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Teacher Career Coach podcast with your new host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:04.6	She started her teaching career in 2014. She found she needed a career change after all the changes that pandemic brought to the teaching world.
0:13.7	So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role and now works as an operations manager for a tech startup.
0:22.6	Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions,
0:27.0	interview prep, addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more.
0:31.6	Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:35.7	Welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast. You can find us on all your social channels at
0:41.8	Teacher Career Coach or on our website, teachercareercoach.com. Hi everyone and welcome back to our next
0:51.2	episode. Today we get to meet Jan, and Janita was a high school
0:56.7	English teacher for five years before she made the transition into the tech world. She currently
1:03.9	works for Microsoft as a senior business program manager, and before that, she was a VP of customer success. Join us today as we learn
1:13.9	about her background and how she stood apart from the competition as she transitioned into tech
1:20.4	and advanced her career. Hope you enjoy. Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the next episode. Today,
1:27.4	we have Janita with us and we're very excited to learn about her story from teaching English to now being a senior business program manager for a big software company. So welcome.
1:39.8	Thank you, Elizabeth. Thanks for having me.
1:42.2	We'd love to kick this off by hearing a bit about what got you into education in the first place.
1:48.3	My second grade teacher, Ms. Taylor, got me into education.
1:52.8	Since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a teacher and nothing else.
1:57.8	You may remember those little books that your parents fill out for you each school year
2:01.5	about like, how old are you? What's your favorite color? And what do you want to be when you grow up?
2:06.8	And since I was like six, the answer in those books has been teacher.
2:12.7	I love to hear that. And can you tell us a little bit about what you taught, how long you were in the classroom?
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