Dick's Sporting Goods Partners with Career Athletes
Dick's Sporting Goods Career Athletes Page
October 17, 2011 (Kansas City, Kan) - CareerAthletes.com, the leading online network for student-athletes, athletic departments and employers, today announced a national partnership with Dick's Sporting Goods. Dick's Sporting Goods, will turn to CareerAthletes.com to assist in targeting current and alumni student-athletes for all of its' nationwide career opportunities, both part and full-time. More than 100,000 Career Athletes members will be able to standout compared to other applicants by having full access to Dick's Sporting Goods recruiters to start creating professional connections.
"At Dick's Sporting Goods, our commitment is to help our customers to be the best athletes they can be," said Kathy Sutter, Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Dick's Sporting Goods.
"A key part of delivering on that promise is ensuring that our employees not only have an unparalleled, firsthand knowledge of our brands and products but also share our customers' passion and enthusiasm for sports. We feel the best way to achieve this is by hiring athletes themselves, and we're thrilled to partner with Career Athletes in our pursuit to employ talent uniquely qualified to inspire our customers to perform to their highest potential."
With the announcement of this partnership, Career Athletes members can connect directly with 12 Dick's Sporting Goods recruiters and apply to hundreds of hourly and full-time career opportunities in a variety of fields.
"Career Athletes is excited to have Dick's Sporting Goods join us as a trusted employment partner," explained CEO Chris Smith. "The ability for Career Athletes and Dick's to bring their entire store support, corporate, field, and hourly positions to our community members is a tremendous asset. Dick's Sporting Goods' passion for employing athletes aligns with Career Athletes dedication to help current and alumni athletes obtain careers on a national level and we look forward to this partnership."
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About Dick's Sporting Goods:
Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. (www.dickssportinggoods.com) began as a bait and tackle shop opened by Richard "Dick" Stack in 1948 in Binghamton, NY. Ed Stack, the son of Dick Stack and the current Chairman and CEO of Dick's, bought the business from his father in the 1980s and set out to expand it beyond New York. He opened more stores in concentric regions, moved the headquarters to Pittsburgh, PA, and took the company public in 2002 (NYSE: DKS). Today, Dick's Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment. As of September 12, 2011, the company operated 456 Dick's Sporting Goods stores in 42 states. Dick's Sporting Goods also owns Golf Galaxy, LLC, a golf specialty retailer with 81 stores in 30 states. The Company also operates e-commerce Web sites and catalog operations for both Dick's and Golf Galaxy.
With nearly $4.9 billion in sales in fiscal 2010, Dick's is the largest and most profitable publicly held full-line sporting goods retailer in the nation. The company's success is based on the disciplined execution of its strategy - to deliver an extensive selection of authentic sporting goods in a specialty store environment. Over the years, the steady commitment to this strategy has enabled Dick's to produce strong financial and operational performance, and to continue growing into new markets.
Dick's corporate headquarters, referred to as the Store Support Center, is located in Pittsburgh, PA, which has been recognized among the most livable and affordable metropolitan areas in the United States.
About Career Athletes, LLC:
Career Athletes is partnered with over 200 athletic departments across the United States. The online network consists of more than 100,000 community members, all current and former student-athletes looking to network and create professional connections in their desired field.
Career Athletes is the leading provider of a wide range of dedicated career development services and software within collegiate athletics. Since the inception of our roots back in 1998-to-date, athletes in every sport, from over 1,400 individual colleges and universities nationwide, have utilized Career Athletes as a valuable tool in their transition from athletics to the workplace.
Career Athletes possesses the largest member based community of current/alumni student-athletes, representing a growing legion of athletes, athletic departments and hundreds of national, regional and local employers. Today, our on-campus training and development seminars to student-athletes are the most relied upon in the nation, with over 1,000 seminars conducted and over 275,000 student-athletes educated on-campus within college athletic departments at the NCAA, NAIA and Junior Colleges level.
For More Information:
Contact: Marti Rosche
Phone: 913-397-9009
E-mail: marti@careerathletes.com
