After leading teaching because of some serious burnout, she vowed to build the community she wished existed when she needed it most.

She went from classroom teacher to an educational consultant, instructional designer, and six-figure business owner.

Now, she's here to help you achieve happiness and work-life balance, whether inside or outside the classroom.

Come join our discussion as we talk

about managing teacher burnout, career transitions outside the classroom, starting a side hustle,

and everything in between. Here's your host of the teacher career coach podcast and your new

personal cheerleader, Daphne Gomez. Welcome to the teacher career coach podcast.'m your host, Daphne Gomez. And in today's

episode, I'm going to go over some of the top findings in the much anticipated 2025 job market

survey that I created for transitioning teachers. So just to recap, back in episode 195,

I shared that when I was returning back, this was my biggest project that I've been

focused on for a little bit over a month now. I've been head down in research mode, talking to

hiring managers, CEOs, reading as much as I can about all the different changes that are happening in the job market in 2025.

But I know that I don't need to tell you this.

A lot of the information that's out there, like if you go to more generalized information about the job market, it's going to be

broad and not specific to transitioning teachers. So I really wanted data that was extremely

specific to this community. And I put out a call to action to have as many former teachers as

possible complete the survey. And I just wanted to

hear their insight into whether or not their companies are hiring, what made them stand out for the

roles, and if their jobs feel secure. And this community really showed up for one another. We still

had a few former teachers trickling in and doing the survey even after I wrote this episode.

But as I wrote the episode, as I did all of the creating the document that I'm going to share with you if you're in our email newsletter, at that time we had 717 former teachers answer. And that is great. It's big enough to see

quite a few strong directional patterns, but I want to be completely transparent upfront.

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