Pros and Cons of Being a Corporate Trainer

0:00 hey it's jeff with your learning career.com if you are considering a career as a corporate trainer you might be wondering if it's going to be a good fit so in this video i'm going to share with you some of the pros and cons that i've experienced throughout my 20-year career in learning and development trainer or corporate trainer you might see different job titles for it right but basically if you enjoy public speaking you like giving presentations you like to have an audience uh these are all great interests for someone who wants to be a corporate trainer so like if you're for example if you're a teacher if currently you're a teacher you know this could be a very natural

0:46 um thing to get into because you're already used to talking to people so you know typically someone who is a corporate trainer uh or you know doing training delivery you know you're you're going to be the one in front of the audience now it could be live classroom training but sometimes too as a trainer you might be doing this is probably happening more and more right virtual you might be conducting webinars so it just depends so that's something you need to consider when you are looking at job titles and job descriptions you need to really look at what is it that i'll be doing and is this what i want to do do i want to do more stand up deliver to a an audience in the same room

1:32 or am i comfortable with doing webinars and i want to do more of that or am i cool with both so there's all kinds of different jobs and that may or may not do one or the other or both um as far as pros and cons so some big pros to being a trainer to to be focused on the training delivery are it's fun i actually that was my first like my first job training was a training delivery position and it was at walt disney world i got to teach walt disney world traditions and i loved it i loved getting up in front of the audience i loved seeing their faces and making them laugh

2:18 and helping them learn so i that's what i realized and this was this was in addition to my regular job so it wasn't my full-time job but when i did it i realized wow this is what i wanted this is what i want to be when i grow up right so um i really enjoyed it i think it can be a lot of fun so that's a big pro um now of course not every class is going to be teaching you know at disney world um but i'll get to the i'll get to the cons in a minute but um so it's fun especially if you like to perform um some other pros are travel can be a plus if you're there's a lot of companies that will hire trainers and they want you to

3:04 train in different cities so if you're someone who likes travel that could be something appealing to you now that's not always the case sometimes if you work for a company you have a training room in in your city and that's that's it you don't do a lot of travel but it can be a potential pro um for certain positions um the authority you know you're seen as an expert you're seen as an authority that can be really nice as a trainer and then i think for me one of the biggest pluses is just the whole getting to see people when they when they have that light bulb moment you know when they have that aha um that is very satisfying

3:50 as a trainer you know when you uh get to watch people and you see the learning is happening when you when when they're doing a demonstration and you can see that what you taught them is actually uh it's it's actually sinking in so those are some great pluses to being a trainer slash corporate trainer training delivery type um roll some minuses okay some cons it's not all it ain't all roses okay so i'd say the biggest thing especially if you're doing the classroom if you're doing the live in person classroom type training biggest thing is you are on your feet all day i mean you will be exhausted now sometimes you're only maybe doing a short class maybe you're doing

4:36 only a one hour class or maybe you're only doing a one-hour webinar right um a lot of times though you're doing full days maybe you're doing full week depends you know but i've done programs where i was basically in the classroom all week long and you are and actually even after just one day i was exhausted so you're tired your feet hurt also there's a lot of prep before a class so you're not just showing up and saying ah i'm here i'm i'm i'm the trainer and we're gonna have fun there's a lot of getting there early prepping the classroom staying after the class and cleaning up the room i mean there's just all kinds of stuff and there's crazy things that can happen

5:22 um you know in your in your training class so you got to be flexible and and it is it's a lot of work so those are some concepts i was all i would also put travel as a potential con again depending on where you work but if i mean for me i i like to travel but i don't like a job where i'm traveling every week to a different city that just doesn't work for me it may work for you but that's just again that's something when you're looking at job descriptions or you're interviewing that's something to make sure you understand is is this a corporate training job that's in a different city every week or am i in one place and then you got to figure out for yourself which which works best for you if you'd like more information about a career in

6:08 corporate training be sure to check out my website and the links that i will provide in the description below if you'd like to learn more about some other roles like instructional designer or e-learning developer check out some of my other videos here on the channel and please let me know in the comments if there are other types of videos you'd like to see here alright we'll see you next time