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Instructional Designer resume example
Instructional designers are hired to turn scattered subject matter into learning that people can finish and use. The work is part analysis, part writing, part build: interview the expert, decide what the learner must be able to do, then produce the slides, videos, job aids, assessments and course shells that get them there. Most teams also expect you to measure whether the training changed anything.
A resume for this role has to show the full cycle, not just authoring. Hiring managers look for evidence that you ran a needs analysis, wrote measurable objectives, storyboarded before building, worked with SMEs who had no free time, and published into an LMS on a date you committed to. Name the tools by version-level specificity where it matters: Storyline, Rise, Captivate, Camtasia, Vyond, Figma, and the LMS or LXP you published into.
Numbers belong here even though learning feels soft. Completion rates, seat time reduced, assessment pass rates, help-desk tickets that stopped coming in, scores from Kirkpatrick Level 1 and 2, courses shipped per quarter. Two or three real figures do more than a paragraph about being creative. Keep a portfolio link in the header, because for this job the samples decide the interview.
The example
Jordan Avery is a placeholder, and every employer on this page is fictional. The numbers are illustrative.