The Work in Sports Podcast - Insider Advice for Sports Careers
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The Work in Sports Podcast - Insider Advice for Sports Careers
Getting hired in sports can be hard, but you don't have to go it alone. On the weekly WorkInSports Podcast, host Brian Clapp acts as your guide to stand out and make a name for yourself in this unique and competitive industry. Featuring an impressive list of guests ranging from super agents (Leigh...
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Using Science to Discover Your Dream Sports Job
What if there was a way to use science to figure out the best career path for you? A way to narrow down the many options into a much more manageable c...
Using AI Will Get You a Sports Job
75% of resumes don't pass through ATS (applicant tracking systems). Recruiters spend an average of 7.6 seconds reading the ones that do. The sports in...
Are College Degrees OVERRATED?
Get your portfolios, reels, and certificates ready… As Gangstarr put it, this episode is all about "skills, skills, skills." R.I.P. Guru.
Skill...
Do This to Get Promoted in Your Sports Career
Whether you're just starting out or seeking a promotion in the sports industry, Brian Clapp shares the top strategies for advancing your career during...
How Do You Actually Do... NETWORKING?
Everyone knows that networking is one of the keys to career success. YOU know you have to do it... but, like... HOW DO YOU DO IT? For real, what are y...
The 3 Traits You NEED to Thrive in the Sports Industry
Join Brian Clapp as he explores three indispensable attributes you need to develop for a thriving career in sports: curiosity, competitiveness, and co...
Networking Your Way to the Show w/MLB's Alana Meraz
Sports internships are among the best ways to gain experience, connections, and skills as you build your career. In addition to providing an excellent...
Managing Job Search Fatigue
If you type “job search advice” into Google, you’ll come up with nearly endless results that cover the gamut. But there is one aspect of the job searc...
Careers in Sports That You Haven't Thought of Yet w/ Melissa Zhang of USA Pickelball
Emerging sports outside the big four of football, basketball, baseball, and hockey can face an uphill climb in gaining participants and a fan base. Le...
Jobs in Daily Fantasy Sports are a SAFE BET w/ Dylan Cooper Senior VP at PrizePicks
Daily fantasy sports is booming. More customers = more money = more JOBS. The best part is that the competition for jobs in the industry is less fierc...
Managing Pro Athletes w/ Aaron and Andre Eanes of A&A Management Group
Travis Kelce has dominated the NFL on the field for nearly a decade, but he's exploded in the media over the past couple of years. Two big-time player...
Negotiating Your Salary in the Sports Industry
When looking for a job, especially your first one in the sports industry, salary negotiation can take a back seat to getting a foot in the door and st...
Paying it Forward in College Athletics (w/Nebraska Assistant AD Mattie Fowler Burkhardt)
Fundraising is the lifeblood of competitive college athletics. While TV contracts, ticket sales, and sponsorships make up a sizable portion of an athl...
Fox Sports’ Jenny Taft: A Sports Reporter’s Rise to the National Stage
Making it to the national stage in sports broadcasting is a tall order. WorkInSports Podcast host Brian Clapp made it far in his career behind the sce...
Creativity Behind Sports Partnerships w/Pittsburgh Penguins’ Luke Mohamed
With employers facing a shortage of skilled candidates, learning in-demand skills is one way to stand out in a competitive job market. That is what ou...
Change Your Career to the Sports Industry in 7 Steps
Pulling off a career change requires preparation as you highlight how the skills you built transfer to a new field. Today’s question for the WorkInSpo...
Three Sports Resume Questions Answered
With technology like artificial intelligence emerging into the spotlight in 2023, making your resume stand out is becoming more difficult. In a 2023 s...
Living the NFL Dream w/Los Angeles Chargers' Chad Jessop
While ‘Deflategate’ put the Patriots’ equipment staff under a microscope the profession tends to avoid, this overlooked aspect of football is of utmos...
Your 4-Year Plan From College to the Sports Industry
College is full of opportunities to form lasting memories and build the foundation of a fruitful career in the sports industry. Students have endless...
Nobody Likes a Multitasker! Level Up Your Time Management Skills
Despite the likelihood that you or your peers have claimed to be expert multitaskers, almost no one can multitask effectively. If you work in the spor...
Crafting Championship-Level Content in Pro Sports
While sports brands are ubiquitous on all social media platforms and snark is popular with many well-known company feeds, that wasn’t always the case....
Mining for Partnerships in the Sports Industry
When VP of Content and Engaged Learning Brian Clapp speaks with recruiters in the sports industry, they say without hesitation that partnership sales...
No Sports Management Degree? No Problem!
Sports management programs have grown at colleges across the country. According to Georgetown University, sports management occupations are projected...
Coordinating Major Success in Minor League Baseball w/Zack Raab
There are many benefits to working in minor league sports. The WorkInSports Podcast chats with Zack Raab about possible career paths in the minors.
Building a Primetime Brand in College Athletics
Promoting college athletics requires workers to know about different sports, as student-athletes from all university programs deserve support. The ath...
Developing Your Sports Industry Leadership Skills
Leadership skills manifest in different ways in all forms of organizations. In sports, some lead by example while exuding confidence, like hockey lege...
Growing Your Sports Career in Digital Content
Content creation is a growing profession, as 30% of 18- to 24-year-olds and 40% of 25- to 34-year-olds consider themselves content creators. The socia...
Choosing the Right Sports Career Path for You
There are many directions you can take a career in sports management, but those options can be overwhelming when deciding where your passion lies in t...
Courting New Fans in America’s Fastest Growing Sport
Emerging sports outside the big four of football, basketball, baseball, and hockey can face an uphill climb in gaining participants and a fan base. Le...
Finding a Job IS YOUR JOB After Graduating, Here’s How to Do It
Every spring, millions of college students don their cap and gown, sit through keynote speeches, and grab a piece of paper that says they graduated fr...
Delivering Championship Events in the Sports Industry
Championship sporting events are a huge draw, with the Super Bowl regularly drawing 70,000 fans, the 2022 World Series averaging over 43,000 fans, and...
How Do You Find Remote Sports Jobs?
Since the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, the way people work has dramatically shifted, with companies increasingly offering some form of work-from-home jo...
Riding the Wave of Sports Business Revenue
Sales is the engine that drives every business. The amount of money coming in must clear what’s going out, or an organization won’t last long. Sales a...
Networking: Your Ticket to the Show w/MLB's Alana Meraz
Sports internships are among the best ways to gain experience, connections, and skills as you build your career. In addition to providing an excellent...
Why Do You Want to Work Here? Answering Common Job Interview Questions
Regardless of what field you work in, job interviews can be a nerve-wracking experience. That nervousness can strike any candidate no matter how quali...
Making a Name for Yourself in College Athletics
The college athletics landscape has changed significantly since 2021, when the NCAA approved legislation allowing student-athletes to profit from thei...
7 Salary Negotiation Mistakes to Avoid to Get the Pay You Deserve
Making good money in the sports industry early in your career can be challenging, given the typically high volume of applicants for each open position...
Covering the Bases in Minor League Sports Jobs
Getting the right experience early in your sports industry career is critical to establishing yourself to future employers, and minor league sports is...
Putting on the Main Event in Sports w/University of Minnesota's Stephanie Davis
Sporting events are magical affairs that can spark a lifelong love of sports. Over 125 million fans attended games in the four US professional sports...
Getting a Job in the Sports Industry Today (and Tomorrow)
One of the allures of pursuing careers in sports is the uniqueness and unpredictability of the day-to-day work within the industry. Between popular ev...