Finding Jobs on Career Athletes

Happy Friday Readers! This week I’m going to talk about how to use the Career Athletes website to search for national job postings. This is my favorite service offered by Career Athletes, and probably will be one of your favorites as well since I’m assuming you would also like to get a job after leaving Jewell. To begin hover your mouse over the tab entitled “Job Center” it will expand to three different subcategories:  “Search Jobs”, “Bookmarked Jobs”, and “Jobs Applied To”. Click on the subcategory entitled “Search Jobs”. This will bring up a page that allows you to narrow your search field by location, field of interest, and job post date. Make selections based on your requirements and then click “Search” at the bottom. All jobs posted through Career Athletes that match your requirements will be brought up allowing you to click on them and read more in-depth descriptions of the job opportunity.  Some cool features that Career Athletes offers includes tabs at the bottom of the job description that allow you to apply online, bookmark the job post for later reference, and allow you to email the job description to a friend. I would suggest utilizing this part of the website even if you don’t use the rest because it allows you to see thousands of job postings in your specific field. So get to it a start looking at job posting that are related to your field. Make sure to tune in next week for the last Career Athletes blog post, and as always it’s a great day to be a cardinal!

It's All About Who You Know

Hey guys! I know Tuesday isn’t my normal blog posting day, but since Fall Break starts tomorrow I am switching it for this week. As most of you have realized (at least I hope you have) a main function of Career Athletes is providing networking opportunities. Networking whether it is through this site or in face to face interactions is an important part of establishing yourself in a career field. As Career Athletes states on their website, “85% of careers are achieved through professional networking!” Since networking is such an important tool when looking for jobs you might be asking "How does someone go about setting up these connections in a professional manner?"  Not to worry Career Athletes provides you with six tips on how to accomplish this. To find these networking tips hover your mouse over the tab labeled “Get Career Advice” in the left hand home column. It will expand to show “Career Resource Center”, “Virtual Career Coach”, “Networking”, “Finding a Job”, and “Using Career Athletes”. Click on “Networking” and a list of the six steps will appear. These networking tips are geared specifically toward Career Athletes, but they can also be incorporated into face to face networking as well. As most people know it isn’t what you know, but rather who you know. Hopefully these tips will help you improve your networking, and I hope you all enjoy your Fall Break!

Lets Get Together: Groups on Career Athletes

Afternoon Readers! We are continuing the theme of short posts for yet another week, yay! The topic for today is connecting to groups on Career Athletes. Connecting to various groups that you have similar interests with allows you to gather more specific information that would benefit you in your networking and future job hunting. The first step in adding groups is to hover your mouse over the left hand tab labeled “Groups”. As with the other tabs this will break into subsections: “My Groups” “All Groups” and “Create Groups”. Click on the subsection labeled “All Groups”. This will bring up a list of all the groups that have been created. Then all you have to do is scroll through and request to join ones that are relevant or interesting to you. It might take a couple days for the group to accept your request which will then allow you to see the discussion boards. I would suggest joining these groups as a starting point if you are unsure what you are interested in:

• Athletes Helping Athletes
• Division II Athletes
• Internships Unlimited
• Kansas City Connect

As always I hope you all enjoy your weekend, and good luck to the Cardinal Swim Team today at their first meet of the season! See you all next week. :)