TSTraining Specialist
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Training Specialist

By the numbers
Typical pay
$69,280 / yr
Education to start
Bachelor's degree
Future demand
+10.8% by 2034
People in this job
458K
Figures shown for ·1 O*NET occupation
The work
A day, hour by hour
08:30
Needs check-in

Interview a department manager to find out what skills their team is missing.

09:15
Course build

Build slides and a short video module for next week's onboarding session.

11:00
Scope decision

Manager wants six topics covered — cut it to two that actually matter.

11:30
Workshop delivery

Facilitate a live skills session; watch the room to see who's lost.

13:30
LMS admin

Upload the new module, fix a broken quiz, chase employees who haven't finished compliance training.

14:30
E-learning build

Turn a dense policy doc into an interactive e-learning module in Articulate.

15:45
Effectiveness review

Pull quiz scores and survey results — decide if the last session actually landed.

16:30
Material update

Rewrite three slides after a process change made last month's content wrong.

Things you do
  • Lead workshops and teach employees new skills in real time.
  • Build training courses, slides, and videos from scratch.
  • Interview managers to figure out what skills their teams are missing.
  • Create interactive e-learning modules employees complete on their own.
  • Track quiz scores and survey results to see if training actually worked.
Decisions you’ll make
  • Is this a training problem, or does something else need to change first?
  • Should I build this from scratch, or adapt something that already exists?
  • Is this group actually learning, or just sitting through the session?
  • Do I push back on what the manager asked for, or deliver what they want?
  • Should I make this training shorter and focused, or cover everything they asked?
Education Pathways · how you get there
91 in 100 went the college route · 9 in 100 found another way in Less than 5 years, typically
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