184- Teacher to Project Coordinator with Jill Kelly

The Teacher Career Coach Podcast

Daphne Gomez

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.4 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jill Kelly was classroom teacher for 12 years. In August of 2022, she took a sales role as an Account Development Manager for an Ed Tech company. In January 2023, she left to become a Project Coordinator for a Gov Tech company. She's been there since and loves this role! It taps into all of her favorite parts about teaching - being organized, training others, breaking things down and explaining it to others, and leading a project through from beginning to end. Join us to learn more! Find Jill 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.
0:06.0	She started her teaching career in 2014.
0:09.1	She found she needed a career change after all the changes that pandemic brought to the teaching world.
0:14.8	So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role and now works as an operations
0:21.8	manager for a tech startup. Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions,
0:28.1	interview prep, addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more. Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:36.4	Welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast.
0:40.0	You can find us on all your social channels at Teacher Career Coach or on our website,
0:46.2	teachercareercoach.com.
0:49.1	Hi, and welcome back.
0:51.4	Today, I'm so excited for you to listen to this episode. We get to speak with
0:57.6	Jillian Kelly, and Julian was a classroom teacher for 12 years, teaching first, fourth, and sixth grade.
1:06.3	Her last year in the classroom was 2021 to 2022.
1:17.2	After that, she took a sales role as an account development manager for an ed tech company,
1:18.4	working remotely.
1:25.4	After she left that position, she became an SDR at a different ed tech company.
1:30.1	At that time, she was really honing in on her strengths to what she liked and disliked about this position, and she eventually left to become a project
1:36.1	coordinator for a government tech company. And she's been there ever since and just loves
1:41.7	the project coordinator role. It taps into all of her favorite parts
1:46.5	about teaching, being organized, training others, breaking things down, and finishing a project
1:54.0	from beginning to end. So today, I hope you enjoy this episode. I'm excited to learn from her, and I hope you are too.
2:03.7	Well, welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast. I'm very excited today to have Jill with us. Welcome, Jill.
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