Most people’s primary reason for wanting to get involved in the sports industry is passion (an adjective that Kristi Dosh says is the most overused cover letters and resumes) and of course money. If you want to make a substantial amount of money doing a job you love take a look at the following list of these…
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3 Tips When Evaluating An Offer To Work Abroad
The sports industry offers thousands of opportunities to work abroad. As an employee you can apply for positions in other countries as well as domestically. In fact, you should be encouraged to do that. The biggest companies usually have websites where you can search for positions all over the world. If you are willing to…
Landing Your Dream Job in Sports Comes Down to the “Power of You!”
We talk about landing that Dream Job in Sports a lot don’t we?! Here at SportsNetworker we are trying to help you land that dream job. After all, cashing in on a passion and being involved in an industry that you love will enable you to so much more excited about your career than just…
Toss Away the “Could Haves” and “Should Haves” Day
Today is Toss Away the “Could Haves” and “Should Haves” Day, and it’s time that you make 2013 the biggest year of your career. Ways you should be using LinkedIn to build your network and get that dream job in sports! Remember that networking event you went to last month? How many of those contacts…
#SportJC Hosts Sports Job Twitter Chat
Twitter chats are a huge way to gain followers, meet fellow users with similar interests and most importantly GET INVOLVED. The guys over at Sport Job Chat do a bi-monthly twitter chat with questions directed towards working in the sports industry. Every first and third Mondays of the month, they hold theses chats with the…
Red Flags in a Sports Job Interview
Where do the athletes come in at? Where’s that entrance? What… I’m drooling? Yes, you want to work in sports. Yes, you are going to be excited at your job interview. But there are some red flags that will pop depending on how you choose to wave your passion flag about the sports company or team…
#SportJC Hosts Sports Job Twitter Chat
Twitter chats are a huge way to gain followers, meet fellow users with similar interests and most importantly GET INVOLVED. The guys over at Sport Job Chat do a bi-monthly twitter chat with questions directed towards working in the sports industry. If you’re looking to get involved or meeting business professionals who can help you…
How to Stay Ahead of the Game and Gain Traction With Your Company
Sucking up isn’t the only way Contrary to popular demand there are many alternatives to sucking up that will put you ahead of the game and help you gain traction within your company and with your managers. In fact with the way people see through each other more and more nowadays unless your boss is…
It’s Time to Love Your Sports Career
The other day while surfing the internet I came across a quote from Tommy Lasorda that really resonated with me. “If you love your job, you haven’t worked a day in your life.” This is such a great quote because it is so true and I believe that many, if not all of us, can…
Working Behind The Scenes In College Athletics
I worked in college athletics for nearly 20 years. In that time, I hired and did my best to mentor a number of young people who had dreams of a career in sports. The first thing that I told them, and it was the first thing I was told when I started at Eastern Washington…
Jobs In Sports Events: How To Land Your Dream Job In Sports
When you attend a big sporting event like the NCAA Final Four or the Super Bowl, for example, you might forget that there’s a laundry list of people working behind the scenes to put on the event. Even for regular season games in the NBA or NFL, there’s people working together to make sure the…
How to Get a Job in Sports Marketing
It’s great that you want to work in sports marketing, but so do hundreds of thousands of other people, which makes the job market pretty tough and competitive. Sports marketing can be a career for those with adequate educational background, particularly since it is one of the highest paid sport related career fields. You can…