New Book Announcement: CareerBall: The Sport Athletes Play When They’re Through Playing Sports

Russ Hafferkamp, Founder of Career Athletes and CEO of Athlete Career Network, answers the catechism of ‘what’s next’ for hundreds of bags of aggressive athletes adverse career uncertainty, accident of character as they alteration abroad from sports and a alteration application landscape.

Considered a arch articulation nationally in amateur career development, Hafferkamp is a above bookish All-American and aristocratic amateur who has provided career admonition and admonition to added than 250,000 bookish and able athletes. CareerBall: The Sport Athletes Play When They’re Through Playing Sports dissects the amateur DNA, informs athletes of the different career development challenges adverse them, and alerts athletes and parents to the dangers of adit vision, area sports becomes 100% of an athletes self-image.

“Today, athletes, parents, administrators and agents, are alpha to apprehend that a abnormally focused, over-commitment to aggressive challenge has produced an adventitious aftereffect of crisis proportions,” says Russ Hafferkamp, columnist of CareerBall: The Sport Athletes Play When They’re Through Playing Sports and managing administrator of Career Athletes . “Participation in able and abecedarian sports now requires a year-round time commitment, abrogation athletes after a ample set of activity adventures and ill-prepared for the requirements of a aggressive application economy.”

The times accept changed, and Hafferkamp believes foolishly that athletes charge to now exercise greater self-responsibility in how they antithesis a charge to sports and advancing for life-after-sports.

“It is important to apprehend that we are now active in times if a lot of of the rules of the application bazaar accept changed,” says Hafferkamp. “In the old days, career planning and development for athletes was adored mostly by networking and assuming up for the interview. Today, aggressive auspiciously in the plan abode requires added alertness and effort. Also, you bigger appear to the account with some antecedent acquaintance (part-time jobs, internships, even volunteerism). Unfortunately, today’s athletes acquire actual little plan acquaintance as a aftereffect of accretion time constraints.”

Among added applied job-search/job-find advice, CareerBall: The Sport Athletes Play When They’re Through Playing Sports aswell explores:

• The “dark ancillary of the alpha male”
• The obstacles women athletes face operating in the acceptable ‘ol boy network’
• The keys to “overcoming life’s little screw-ups”
• The accent of “knowing thyself” and accurately assessing your claimed interests, plan ethics and defining your “Athlete Core Message,” authentic as what you accept abstruse through your able-bodied accord that is anon transferrable to the workplace.

With an bread-and-butter and application ‘reset’ able-bodied underway, Hafferkamp aswell examines area the apple is headed and key application trends for 2010 and beyond. He puts to blow the angle that there is still job aegis or that humans will accept alone one career in a lifetime. Hafferkamp argues that in fact, there may be a audible advantage for the able amateur in this array of aggressive ambiance area jobs are alarm and the applicants are many. Employers are demography a new attending at awful aggressive individuals that can beam down acute times, accompany optimism and a plan belief to the party, and abide to body for the future.

“Athletics abundantly appearance who we are,” says Hafferkamp. “And the acceptable account is that hiring managers and HR professionals above America readily analyze the amateur ‘soft-skills’ as a actual admired article in the workforce. Sport has consistently been a agitating and accurate acquirements arena for activity skills.”

Integral to the bulletin in CareerBall: The Sport Athletes Play When They’re Through Playing Sports is that if you ambition to accomplish success in your post-athletic career, you accept to breach the ascendancy of ‘tunnel vision’ and accumulate broader activity and plan adventures while you compete. Living in a post-industrial, high-tech association requires all -to-be advisers to authenticate both intelligence and accurate plan skills- not just able-bodied accomplishments or a advocacy from important alumni. Lacking the all-important abilities and advancement appropriate for accepting the acceptable jobs of tomorrow will be boxy obstacles to affected if all you accept to appearance on your resume is a continued history of touchdowns and aggregation spirit.

Russ’ best admonition is don’t be cold at the switch. “Unless you’re authoritative seven-figures a year and active to a multi-year contract, accepting a acceptable amateur is no agreement that you will accomplish in your career afterwards sports or, for that matter, even acquisition a job”.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Russ Hafferkamp is accustomed as a baton and drillmaster in the career development of bookish and elites athletes. A acknowledged administrator and CEO, Russ has headed a array of market-leading companies and back founding Career Athletes, has provided career training and admonition to over 250,000 aggressive athletes, apery every sport. Russ is a above NCAA All-American baptize polo player, academy drillmaster and conducts seminars nationally on amateur alteration issues. For added advice about Russ Hafferkamp, appointment http://www.CareerBalltheBook.com. Career Athletes (http://www.CareerAthletes.com) is the arch provider of career development training, education, adjustment and alumni amateur networking casework aural the bookish able-bodied community.

CareerBall: The Sport Athletes Play When They’re Through Playing Sports
282-page paperback: $18.95; BookSurge Publishing
ISBN-10: 143924832X; ISBN-13: 978-1439248324
Available at http://www.Amazon.com , http://www.BarnesandNoble.com , http://www.CareerBalltheBook.com

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