Top Tips For Teaching Yoga In Schools - Tip #23: Two Resumes Are Better Than One
Hi there,
Welcome back to the blog, and what feels like the longest school year ever.
Am I right, or am I right?
I feel like we’ve had 5 weeks of school left for the past…5 weeks!
I’ve been getting through this last big push of the school year through support from my teacher friends. Honestly, it’s been so needed and necessary.
Did you know I offer a mentorship program for kids yoga teachers for this very reason? We all know support is key, and sometimes, having a thought partner to problem-solve and help us create is KEY.
In my mentorship program, you and I work 1:1 together on anything you need help with as it relates to teaching yoga in schools: we can talk best practices for approaching principals, figure out classroom logistics, review and create lessons, and more. You choose what we work on each session.
I have just a few spots left for summer mentorship clients, so make sure to book now!
In fact, in my most recent sessions with my mentorship clients, we’ve been working on the very topic I address in this week’s tip, so read on to find out more!
Tip #23: Two Resumés Are Better Than One
As the school year wraps up, and you gear up for what’s next, I want to urge you to start laying the groundwork now for next school year. Prepare all of your materials NOW, while the work is still fresh in your head. Reach out to principals about opportunities for next year in the next few weeks, while they’re still in the thick of it, before your email gets lost in the slew of emails that surely build up over summer break.
And, while you’re preparing your materials, prepare TWO resumes. Huh? Two? Yes, two! One that is a traditional resume and highlights your work and educational experiences, and the other one, a yoga or mindfulness specific resume.
Why two? Because you are the expert, and you want to convey that to principals. Your yoga and mindfulness training and teaching experiences will get lost if you hide them in your traditional resume...there’s just too much other stuff there, that you either won’t have room to highlight your yoga / mindfulness experiences, or they’ll get lost. Principals are used to looking for professional experience, so they may very easily gloss over the specialized kids yoga or mindfulness training you took.
By separating all of your yoga and mindfulness education and experience, and putting them in their own separate resume, you allow those experiences to be highlighted. Walking into an interview, you can not only point to your work experience, but also ALL of the specialized experience you have working to bring yoga and/or mindfulness to kids in schools. And that matters.
Tip Takeaway: As you prepare materials for interviews, be sure to prepare two resumes: one specific to your yoga and mindfulness education and experience, and the other a more traditional, professional resume. In your yoga / mindfulness resume, you should highlight all of your specific qualifications as well as any experience you’ve had teaching yoga and / or mindfulness to kids.