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Career Change Success as a Quality Assurance Leader for NCFE

June 25, 2024 • Joanne Howard • Season 4 • Episode 6

Academy Alumni member Gemma talks about her interesting move from Secondary Art teacher to Quality Assurance Leader at NCFE. She shares specific examples of the skills that she evidenced in her application and interview, and how these help her in the day-to-day role.

As teachers and leaders in education, we have a wealth of quality assurance, moderation, assessment and training experiences - this episode shares another way we can use this in a very different setting.

In this episode, we also explore:

Maternity leave, lock down and competing with her pre-children teacher self
Financially preparing to leave teaching
Knowing that feeling sad doesn’t make it the wrong decision
The wealth of teacher transferable skills and how to reference them
Translating job specifications and understanding what they mean
Preparing for her interview and giving great examples
Struggling with imposter syndrome
Quality assurance as a day-to-day role
Top tips for working for an accreditation body

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