Career Athletes, the arch career apprenticeship and ability provider for admission and alumni bookish athletes, is ablution its aboriginal anytime television and agenda media attack this fall. To accompany with the acme of the academy football season, Career Athletes is targeting above and accepted academy athletes via an chip media campaign, including television, agenda and amusing media extensions.
"For added than a decade, Career Athletes has been allowance bags of above academy athletes acquisition jobs and accomplish important able connections," said Chris Smith, CEO of Career Athletes. "While we’ve done a abundant job growing our association through on-campus outreach, coach programs and through chat of mouth, the ambition of this new attack is to crop the online association of Career Athletes to addition level.”
The campaign, which includes television and agenda spots, highlights above athletes who accept acclimated the chargeless account to affix with teammates, accept career advice, coach adolescent colleagues and a lot of importantly, acquisition jobs. All spots will air alone on the Big Ten Network and Comcast Sports Net in abide agreeable programming, as able-bodied as via several agenda and amusing media extensions, including academy websites via the Big Ten Network and CBS Interactive.
“By active our attack via online, on air and agenda extensions, we apprehend to ability a ample articulation of our alcove amateur audience,” said Smith. “The basal band is it doesn’t amount what age you are, what action you played or what akin you played at – if you are a above or accepted academy athlete, you charge to be a affiliate of CareerAthletes.com.”
Beginning on October 6, the Career Athletes chip attack will abide to run through the butt of the academy football division and into the aboriginal months of academy basketball season. For added information, amuse appointment http://www.CareerAthletes.com.
About Career Athletes, LLC
Career Athletes is the arch provider of a advanced ambit of committed career development casework and software aural bookish athletics. Since the birth of our roots aback in 1998-to-date, athletes in every sport, from over 1,200 alone colleges and universities nationwide, accept activated Career Athletes as a admired apparatus in their alteration from challenge to the workplace.
Career Athletes possesses the better affiliate based association of current/alumni student-athletes, apery a growing countless of athletes, able-bodied departments and hundreds of national, bounded and bounded employers. Today, our on-campus training and development seminars to student-athletes are the a lot of relied aloft in the nation, with over 800 seminars conducted and over 250,000 student-athletes accomplished on-campus aural academy able-bodied departments at the NCAA, NAIA and Junior Colleges level. For added advice and to annals for your chargeless account, appointment http://www.CareerAthletes.com .
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Monday, December 21, 2009
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
FOR INTERVIEW REQUESTS AND REVIEW COPIES:
Media Contact: Dan Lobring, rEvolution
Phone: 312.529.5833
E-mail: dlobring@revolutionworld.com
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
FOR INTERVIEW REQUESTS AND REVIEW COPIES:
Media Contact: Dan Lobring, rEvolution
Phone: 312.529.5833
E-mail: dlobring@revolutionworld.com
15-Year NFL Veteran, Author and Entrepreneur Kendall Gammon Joins Career Athletes Advisory Board
Career Athletes, the arch career apprenticeship and ability provider for admission and alumni bookish athletes, is aflame to advertise that Kendall Gammon has abutting its advising board. Gammon, a Super Bowl adept and the aboriginal continued snapper anytime beatific to the Pro Bowl, brings different acumen to Career Athletes and its mission of advancing accepted and above student-athletes as they alteration from aggressive challenge to the alive world.
"The adventitious to advice admonish a aggregation and abstraction that helps pave a aisle of success for so abounding associated is actual humbling,” said Kendall Gammon, Advisory Board Member, Career Athletes. "With Career Athlete’s different access to the student-athlete and the qualities that are developed aural that student-athlete, it is no abruptness to me that universities and companies all about the country are acquisitive to accomplice with them.”
A big allotment of Kendall’s role will be allowance to draw absorption to the challenges adverse bags of above academy athletes who never accept the befalling to about-face professional. Rather than avoid this population, Career Athletes’ ambition is to affix these athletes via CareerAthletes.com, a website at which they accept acceptance to career apprenticeship resources, alumni mentors, career opportunities and acceptance to abeyant administration analytic for above amateur job candidates.
"Kendall embodies the spirit of Career Athletes because he is so abundant added than a above athlete," said Chris Smith, CEO of Career Athletes. "He’s an entrepreneur, an author, a philanthropist – he knows there’s activity afterwards sports and we’re captivated that he’s called to plan with us to bear that message.”
For added advice about Career Athletes and the casework provided, amuse appointment http://www.CareerAthletes.com.
About Career Athletes, LLC
Career Athletes is the arch provider of a advanced ambit of committed career development casework and software aural bookish athletics. Since the birth of our roots aback in 1998-to-date, athletes in every sport, from over 1,200 alone colleges and universities nationwide, accept activated Career Athletes as a admired apparatus in their alteration from challenge to the workplace.
Career Athletes possesses the better affiliate based association of current/alumni student-athletes, apery a growing countless of athletes, able-bodied departments and hundreds of national, bounded and bounded employers. Today, our on-campus training and development seminars to student-athletes are the a lot of relied aloft in the nation, with over 800 seminars conducted and over 250,000 student-athletes accomplished on-campus aural academy able-bodied departments at the NCAA, NAIA and Junior College level. For added advice and to annals for your chargeless account, appointment http://www.CareerAthletes.com .
"The adventitious to advice admonish a aggregation and abstraction that helps pave a aisle of success for so abounding associated is actual humbling,” said Kendall Gammon, Advisory Board Member, Career Athletes. "With Career Athlete’s different access to the student-athlete and the qualities that are developed aural that student-athlete, it is no abruptness to me that universities and companies all about the country are acquisitive to accomplice with them.”
A big allotment of Kendall’s role will be allowance to draw absorption to the challenges adverse bags of above academy athletes who never accept the befalling to about-face professional. Rather than avoid this population, Career Athletes’ ambition is to affix these athletes via CareerAthletes.com, a website at which they accept acceptance to career apprenticeship resources, alumni mentors, career opportunities and acceptance to abeyant administration analytic for above amateur job candidates.
"Kendall embodies the spirit of Career Athletes because he is so abundant added than a above athlete," said Chris Smith, CEO of Career Athletes. "He’s an entrepreneur, an author, a philanthropist – he knows there’s activity afterwards sports and we’re captivated that he’s called to plan with us to bear that message.”
For added advice about Career Athletes and the casework provided, amuse appointment http://www.CareerAthletes.com.
About Career Athletes, LLC
Career Athletes is the arch provider of a advanced ambit of committed career development casework and software aural bookish athletics. Since the birth of our roots aback in 1998-to-date, athletes in every sport, from over 1,200 alone colleges and universities nationwide, accept activated Career Athletes as a admired apparatus in their alteration from challenge to the workplace.
Career Athletes possesses the better affiliate based association of current/alumni student-athletes, apery a growing countless of athletes, able-bodied departments and hundreds of national, bounded and bounded employers. Today, our on-campus training and development seminars to student-athletes are the a lot of relied aloft in the nation, with over 800 seminars conducted and over 250,000 student-athletes accomplished on-campus aural academy able-bodied departments at the NCAA, NAIA and Junior College level. For added advice and to annals for your chargeless account, appointment http://www.CareerAthletes.com .
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