CU set to host Career Athletes Seminar

LEBANON, Tenn. - Cumberland's athletic department will host Career Athletes, a career development and education program that helps prepare student-athletes for the job search process after graduation, on Wednesday, December 3, for an all-day seminar with the more than 400 Bulldog athletes. Chevrolet is a corporate sponsor of the program, which costs the University and athletes nothing to participate.  

"This is an exciting program for our student-athletes as well as our university and we are very excited to be the first NAIA school to participate in the program," CU Athletic Director Ron Pavan said. "The president of NAIA as well as several university presidents will be on campus observing the seminars and programs and how they help the student-athletes prepare for life after college."  

Career Athletes has conducted over 800 campus visits at colleges and universities throughout the country, educating more than 240,000 student-athletes with career development training. The program helps prepare student-athletes for their future challenging job search process by assisting them in recognizing and articulating the unique skill set that they have acquired through athletic participation. This skill set, which the athletes often have not identified or acknowledged, is quite attractive to many companies.