The Work in Sports Podcast - Insider Advice for Sports Careers

The Work in Sports Podcast - Insider Advice for Sports Careers


Choosing the Right Sports Job – Work in Sports Podcast

August 26, 2019

Hey it’s Brian - got a great question we’re diving into on this here podcast, but first -- You are all here because you want to grow and develop in your sports career, why else would you be listening… it’s not my sultry voice or sense of humor.  No, you are here to get ahead, and if you are truly serious about this, and you want to jump way ahead in your sports career - check out our Work in Sports academy courses. So far I’ve created four courses -- * Gaining the right experience* Networking and building personal relationships* Your resume cover letter and personal brand* And how to nail your interviews for jobs and internships.Maybe you need just one course… you’re about to head into some serious interviews and want some deep dive tips and techniques. Or you really need a strategy and tactics to build your network. Pick your course -- $39 bucks. DEAL!Or maybe you need all four courses -- if you are pretty new, that is likely. Well you can bundle them all together for just $99 -- that’s 38% savings over buying them individually. DEAL!Check out workinsports.com/gameplanAnd if you are a professor or High School teacher and think to yourself, whoa, this would be awesome to incorporate throughout our sports management program. I can work you a screaming deal so contact me today. bclapp@workinsports.com -- or just hit me up on linkedin… we’ll make this work.Alright, let’s start the countdown…Hey everybody, I’m Brian Clapp VP of Content and Engaged Learning at WorkInSports.com, and this is the Work in Sports podcast.Let’s jump right into things...actually, I want to make one point first before I get into today’s question - which is a really good one. We just reached 17,000 active sports jobs on WorkinSports.com - 17,281 to be exact. I keep hearing people talk about how competitive it is in the industry right now, and they aren’t wrong… but the jobs are out there. We have them all.And before you think to yourself, I don’t need to pay for a premium membership to WorkinSports.com - I have google! You are going to waste so much time doing google searches and you are never going to find thousands of the jobs we have because you don’t even know the employers exist.We work with over 8,000 sports employers --- we have all the jobs. So make it easy on yourself and start with us, save time, be more efficient. AND for all of you students -- go to workinsports.com/students… the deal on there is crazy. $30 for a 6-month membership. That’s just $5 a month. Save time, find the best sports jobs...and match your resume against the job openings on our website. Oh yeah, it’s true. You don’t have to search through all 17,000 we’ll do th work for you -- upload your resume and we make the computers do the work for us. They look at you, and our 17,000 jobs, badda boom badda bing, you get matches.It’s awesome.Ok, today’s question from Joshua in Indiana, Hey Brian, everyone always starts out by kissing your you know what, and I guess I’m no different. Just a sincere thanks from this guy, you’ve taught me a ton.In the last year, I’ve built my network up and been doing your heat checks every 6 months or so…it really works. If people listening don’t know what I’m talking about… you need to take Brian’s gaining the right experience course.My question -- I have two job offers and I’d love your advice.One is at my dream company but isn’t in my ideal role or department.The other is a role I want, but the company is just OK. What would you do?Josh -- thanks for all the kind words and nice job phrasing the question. If you had said “What should I do, I would have gone into a rant about how I can’t make decisions for you, I can only advise… but since you asked what would I do, you gave me cover to answer this in full.First things first -- thanks for the kind words about our Work In Sports Acad...