Our software partner Résunate, continues to provide important information for candidates seeking Sports Industry employment opportunities. This submission was prepared by Kat Krull, the Marketing Manager for Careerimp Inc.

NOTE: Join us, The Sports Résume and Résunate on Tuesday 2.7.12 from 8-9PM for a chat discussing what content should be present on the Résume of a Sports Industry employment candidate: http://twebevent.com/MyCR. We look forward to your presence and do invite any friends and associates.

Remember to use the FREE Résunate software platform to receive your Résume/CV/Job Description analysis. Your goal should be in planning a strategy for integrating an Applicant Tracking System (ATS).

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Many colleges and universities offer sports management degrees for students dreaming to work for ESPN or becoming major sports talents managers. A once seemingly recession proof market, has now seen a decline. There have been several job cuts within the sports industry across every sport.

As Real Clear Sports found in an interview last year with Chuck Todd, NBC political director and a man with years of sports media industry experience, that there are some sports that will survive better than others. Football looks the most solid avenue, but there are others that may be good to look at as well such as college sports positions.

With that said, the sports industry has become more competitive. An employment candidate will need to stand out from the competition. How? Let’s look at some tactics:

Figure out what types of jobs you want within the sports industry. The best way to be proactive in doing this is to look at all types of jobs within the industry and hone in on those making the best connection.

Familiarize yourself with what exactly it entails to be a marketing coordinator, general manager, or a group sales manager so you understand what will be expected of you on a daily basis. You will be most if you correctly match your skill set, wants and desires to the internship or job you set forth to obtain.

Network often. Building a great network is really a time tested means of getting the desired position. Get to know people in the industry by joining social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and by following various sports blogs. Don’t be afraid to comment on things that you are knowledgeable about and mark your calendar for events advertised through these mediums.

Thoroughly educate yourself about the desired job sector. Any sports statistic, news article, and other helpful information can be accessed so find them! This is also a great way to figure out what parts of the industry interest you the most. Furthermore, if you are conducting research, you will also gain an understanding of how the sports industry works.

Secure an internship to get your foot in the door. Most sports management degrees end with an internship so choose well and make the most of it. Internships.com says that if you are going to succeed in the world of sports you must have some hands on training and it is a great way to meet and train with real industry professionals and identify different opportunities that are available to you. You will start building your network of people in the industry which is a vital part of sports industry survival. Hopefully you are in a position to secure an internship out of or during college to give yourself the best chance.

Write a cover letter and Résumé that reflects your passion and core competencies. If you were able to complete an internship, you probably recognized your strengths and weaknesses. Use your strengths to define your core competencies on your Résumé. It is important to convey what value you can add to the organization through your cover letter and Résumé. Résunate can help you create a tailored and powerful Résumé. Always have a 3rd party review the finished product. Then start self-marketing.

Are you ready for a sports career? Do you have some other great ways to get into the sports industry?

CANDIDATES, begin this employment season (2012) by conducting an initial assessment of your areas of expertise. What superior qualities do you have to offer to a Sports Industry employer:
- Expertise in Sales and Marketing
- Public Speaking
- Oral and Written Communications
- Proficiency with certain Software Packages (Custom Software included)

Once the assessment is complete, take each quality and place in your Candidate Profile, using bullet points to separate each category.

Next, use the Résunate software platform (Get a FREE Premium Account Upgrade) and take the Myers – Briggs test, which will produce a create a personality profile. The test results will assist with your job search by providing charts of comparable personality profiles within the same industry as the selected job description. NOTE: This information will also assist with job interview preparation.

Register for your FREE Résunate account (& Premium Account upgrade). Offer expires on 2.21.12.

This summary is provided courtesy of Kat Krull, Marketing Manager with Careerimp [Parent Company of Résunate].
Also, all candidates should register for a FREE Premium Account courtesy of Résunate and The Sports Résumé:
http://get.resunate.com/thesportsresume

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The sports industry is highly competitive. Your resume needs to be on target and stand out from the competition. How can you do that? Listed below are four tips designed to help get your a second look from your dream employer.

1. Make sure your resume includes relevant content. Employers in your desired industry receive many resumes a day that they only have time for a quick scan. It’s your job to provide relevant and focused information. If you are having a hard time editing, use Resunate to focus your resume for the specific job description.

2. Define what makes your resume unique. A lot of people want a job in the Sports Industry; Come up with a theme which makes your resume stand out. If possible, highlight any experiences and skills that show why you are the most qualified applicant. Comparing your resume against the job description also ensures that you show employers HOW you meet their specific criteria.

3. Display your passion for Sports Industry. While you might be super qualified for a position (and that’s great), other candidates may have similar experiences, making them just as qualified. If you showcase personal achievements and use words/terms that show your excitement for the job, your resume will make an impact.

4. Focus on the content and not format. Your resume will be run through an applicant tracking system (ATS) before it reaches the employer’s desk. If it doesn’t include the necessary keywords, experiences, and skills that the employer is looking for, your resume may never make it out of the system.

To combat the applicant tracking system, you should focus your resume to the job description. Also, pay close attention to the format — take control of how your resume will be processed by paying attention to detail. Stick to a simpler format, an employer’s ATS will be able to scan your resume accurately and completely.

How do you plan on setting yourself apart from the competition in this competitive industry?

The Sports Résumé has partnered with Résunate, a company who has developed a software platform designed to help candidates adjust their Résumé/CV to match the KEYWORDS within a specific job description. This creates a state of relevancy which will help any submitted employment documents stand out within an Employer Applicant Tracking System.

Résunate has partnered with The Sports Résumé and is now offering a FREE Premium account upgrade. Follow this link to register: http://get.resunate.com/thesportsresume

Here is a brief sample provided by one of the Co-Founders of Résunate, Mona Abdel-Hamli, providing more insight as to how the Résunate system works and it’s features.

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Revamp Your Resume: 4 Ways Resunate Can Help

By Mona Abdel-Halimjob

Job seekers who apply to jobs online often wonder what happens to their resume after it enters the system, and why they never hear anything back from the prospective employer. The reason could be due to the fact that almost every resume is subjected to a screening by an applicant tracking system (aka ATS). Applicant tracking systems are the foe of a lot of job seekers.

Employers that use applicant tracking systems (the majority of them) often enter keywords or phrase terms when searching for resumes within an ATS. If the employer doesn’t use their own terms, they are at the mercy of the ATS to suggest the best candidates for them. So how do you, as a job seeker, become a top candidate for a company where the average response rate is only 4 percent? You revamp your resume with Resunate.

Resunate offers technologies that allow you to build a custom resume based on the job description — and helps you stand out during the application process for each job you apply for. Below are four features that help job seekers get noticed:

Templates That Matter: Resunate offers to instantly format your experiences in professional and easy to scan formats, which allows job seekers to customize their resume to better showcase your strengths. This gets the resume noticed by the ease it presents your information to the employer.

Semantic Intelligence: Making Resunate one of a kind – it utilizes semantic matching technology to help job seekers to compare their resume to any job description they are interested in. This technology then allows the job seeker to see which of your experiences are the highest ranked and most relevant for the job.

By utilizing Semantic Intelligence, job seekers can finally put their best face forward by automatically selecting the most relevant experiences for every job, with insight only Resunate can provide into how to bypass applicant tracking systems.

Tracking: Resunate offers job seekers the ease of managing and tracking all resumes online. Stop taking space on your desktop or thumb drives and finally store your resumes virtually, where they can easily be accessed whenever needed. With the ability to track your resume, you can now become more active in your follow up on each resume.

Lifetime membership: Once you have decided to use Resunate, you will have an account for life, with all of your job history stored in one secure location. The ease of having all of your information saved makes generating new resumes for submission a breeze

We also just released some great new features that streamline your search, making it even easier to get noticed. Learn more about the newest features in Resunate 1.5 here.

Why this matters: Resunate knows that employers spend less than 10 seconds looking at a resume, and knows the importance of showcasing your most valuable skills upfront. By using the above technology that Resunate offers you can revamp your resume to help you land the interview you’ve been waiting for.

Have you used Resunate to revamp your resume? What did you think? Sign up for a free account today!
Mona Abdel-Halim is the co-founder of Resunate.com, the world’s only search engine optimizing resume builder. You can find Mona and Resunate on Facebook and Twitter