CareerAthletes.com - Careers for Athletes, Career Services

Founded in 1998, CareerAthletes.com is the premium destination for current/alumni student-athletes, athletic departments, and business organizations seeking to create professional connections. Our mission is to provide our members with an educational, opportunistic, and interactive community ensuring these connections can be made quickly and effectively.

What we believe
While many athletes possess a 'sense of aim' of their career ambitions, most are without a clear, organized plan to begin the process. Athletic Departments at all college institutions diligently work to maintain the strong relationship between its current athletes and former alumni athletes. While every coach, parent and administrator is ‘committed' to personal and career development, most athletic departments do not possess the human, technological or curriculum resources to provide effective resources in these important areas.

Career Athletes recognizes whether it is taking a pitch to the opposite field or writing a computer program, athletes inherently learn what it takes to be successful when they're part of a team. They possess the emotional and mental skills that transfer for the foundation of future business success. We also believe that success breeds success and a successful athlete tends to also become a successful member of the workplace.

What we know
Trained athletes have successfully applied the skills that employers seek: teamwork, goal setting, time management, punctuality, discipline, initiative, tenacity, drive, loyalty, dedication, and the ability to take direction and recover from adversity. It is no accident that many senior executives and successful business owners are former collegiate athletes and that over 80% of the female executives at Fortune 500 companies identified themselves as former ""tomboys"" - having played sports.

There is a proven correlation between an individual's level of income and their collegiate athletic participation. In a study published by The Review of Economics and Statistics (Long and Caudill), researchers concluded that "athletic participation produces personal traits or behavior patterns that enhance labor market productivity, and that athletes acquire reputations that increase employer demand for their services off the playing field."

The job of hiring managers is increasingly dependent on their ability to attract, cultivate, and retain talent. They're looking for that common denominator in employees who excel under pressure, display leadership, and respond positively to the advice and guidance of superiors. Collegiate athletes, most of whom will enter the workforce after school, have spent much of their lives exhibiting these very traits.

Why we are successful
Other than Career Athletes, there is no existing organization or service that provides the focused, combination of career development tools that greatly assist student-athletes in their transition from a lifetime of competitive athletics to the work place.

We are the leading organization that offers extensive on-campus training and development seminars throughout the United States for student-athletes to attend properly preparing them for a life after college athletics.
We are the only organization that provides athletic departments and alumni athletic organizations access to a secure, compliant, automated mechanism to connect mentors and employers with athletes within an individual college athletic community.
We are the only organization committed to creating a national network of individual colleges and university athletic departments, their athletes and mentors, local, regional and national employers.
We are committed to working together to create additional new, beneficial career opportunities and meaningful career development programs for current and former student-athletes.
We are the #1 trusted provider of community career networking and employment resources to collegiate athletes.