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Phyl Terry built a method for job hunting around a structure he calls a Job Search Council, and tens of thousands of people have gone through them. The councils are free and peer-run. A small group of people all looking for work meet on a schedule, hold each other accountable, and work through the search together, using a set of practices from his book Never Search Alone. What draws my attention is not the job-search advice, which others can argue about better than I can. It is the teaching structure. A council has no expert at the front of the room. It is a group of non-experts learning a hard thing faster than they would from an expert, and that fact is a real problem for how I was trained to think about instruction.

The claim I want to make is about pedagogy, not careers.…