Employers Know That Athletes Know How To Win!

Inside the book and game of CareerBall: Abilities and motivations are the qualifications employers expect for particular jobs. Your motivated abilities and skills are generally a combination of your own particular DNA and the transferable skills you acquired during your years of sports participation. Since you are an unknown and risky quantity for a prospective employer, you must communicate evidence of these abilities and skills so they can better predict your future performance.

This is a “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” kind of argument, for it is debatable whether it is athletic participation that allows athletes to develop the traits and skills that make them successful or if it is simply that people who participate in athletics inherently possess these traits. Regardless of the outcome of that debate, at the end of the day, athletes know how to win!

Employers look for signs of a future productivity when they look to hire someone. Typically, every great athlete possesses a few innate traits common to an athlete DNA that are known elements of a productive team environment and a high-level athletic environment.

In the next eight Blog postings, I will cite eight DNA qualities your athletic experience has directly or indirectly taught you that will be very beneficial and transferable to the working world. Make certain all your future employers know you possess these qualities, and be prepared to cite personal examples where each quality was learned.