The Career Advice You Need to Hear – Work In Sports podcast

Hey everybody, I’m Brian Clapp, VP of Content and Engaged Learning at WorkInSports.com and this is the Work In Sports podcast… Hope you all had a really great and safe Thanksgiving - I did. Just our family was here, we kept it safe, no entertaining which meant more pie for me. I was in full-fledged beast mode last week. I destroyed the meal.  A guy I knew in high school, kind of a meathead, would always say he was going to eat so much that he puked, and then eat some more. That doesn’t sound healthy to me, but it was a philosophy I kind of embraced this week, sans the puking part. I’m not down with that.  Christmas lights were hung this weekend, despite it being 60 degrees in Pennsylvania… which is really weird this time of year. But I’m on track, lots of black Friday and cyber Monday shopping, good times.  Alright enough blather from me, lets get to the stat line… Three data points to help you understand the health of the sports industry. #1 16,840 active jobs posted on the #1 job board for the sports industry -- WorkInSports.com -- you think that’s puffery? That I’m just boosting the name of the company I work for -- Ha! The truth is in the numbers --  Our closest competitors: one has 2,048 active jobs and the other has 922 jobs. We have 16,840. Where do you think you should spend your time? #2 1,082 jobs added last week. Now, that is a down week for us -- which stands to reason... It was thanksgiving. Who among us says, now is the right time to publish our job opening? #3 even with that, we still have an average of 155 fresh new sports jobs added each day.  Ok -- three really cool jobs that stood out ot me this week Job #1 -- Director of Athletic Multimedia at Marist College in New York - I have to say, there is no better time to be a sports content creator. There are so many opportunities. In this role, you’ll develop and produce video content, digital media, and marketing elements for the athletic department. You’ll go to college games and create awesome content to share through digital channels. Awesome.  Need more proof on sports content jobs -- director of content for the premier lacrosse league, social media director for the drone racing league, director of creative strategy for NBC Sports, video content creator for pac12 network, director of social media for university of pittsburgh -- all these jobs posted in the last 12 hours.  Job #2 - Partnership Analytics Fellowship at NYCFC --  I had to look at this one because a fellowship sounds fancy and partnership analytics sounds interesting. The Partnerships Analytics Fellowship is a one-year position within the Business Intelligence group at NYCFC. The fellowship will focus on equipping the candidate with all the tools necessary to continue a career within multiple verticals of the sports industry such as Strategy & Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Sponsorship Sales and Service. Ding-Ding! The fellow will research and discover new prospects for the Partnership Sales Team to pursue by identifying and creating individual company profiles, performing category analysis, and tracking industry trends. I keep telling ya’ll business analytics is the wave you should be riding in sports. I’m not smart enough for it but you might be. Job #3: Sales jobs are on the rise again -- they are up 10% week over week and I think the news of a vaccine on the horizon is telling teams, time to add staff for the coming spring when thighs could start to open back up again. Remember, jobs are predictive, they tell you what is happening in the eyes of the marketplace 3-6 months from now, if organizations are posting jobs for sales staff that means they think things will be improving in 3-6 months for tickets, partnerships, and sponsorships. I’ll list a couple of jobs to prove my point: Director of Sales for FC Tucson, Florida Panthers Account Manager, Saints and Pelicans Inside Sales team hiring,