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Tips to Break Into Sports
Top 9 Way's to Break Into Sports
A few helpful exerpts from Chapter 6: How to Interview and land the job:
- Ticket Sales still provides the best opportunity to Break Into Sports
- If you are applying for a sales position, you should clearly state you are pursuing sales opportunities on your resume and cover letter.
- Be proactive and not reactive, contact team hiring managers or existing ticket sales reps to try and gather "insider information" on the hiring manager. Do what you can to put your resume at the front of the line.
- Be persistent and follow up after initial screening calls, interviews and during the entire interview process. Be persistent, but also be careful not to cross the line where you become a pest.
- Research the organization you will be interviewing with. This includes basic research on the hiring managers you will be interviewing with.
- Prepare educated questions that demonstrates you did your homework on the organization.
- Highlight your strengths and past experiences that differentiates you from other candidates.
- Sell the interviewer, be strong and confident during an interview. Be sure to make sure your passion and commitment for landing a position shines through during an interview.
- Use social media to keep tabs on sports teams, sports organizations and sports executives that you would ultimatley like to work for.
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