Network helps connect Career Athletes

March 2, 2012

C.J. Rhoades, a rising senior on the women’s soccer team, is Vanderbilt’s representative to careerathletes.com for the spring 2012 semester.

Career Athletes has been designed to provide a free and valuable online network used for connecting student-athletes with mentors, alumni, and professionals. Regardless of if you are a college senior preparing to enter the work force or just entering your freshman year; Career Athletes is intended to give career advice and an opportunity to develop relationships between athletes and business organizations. The process is quick and efficient; it only takes a few minutes. Careerathletes.com has more than 100,000 members ready to connect with you today!

The Career Athletes Network is specifically geared toward student-athletes seeking internships, full-time job opportunities or resume and career advice. CareerAthletes.com also provides a great platform to alumni whom wish to connect with student-athletes and help guide them by becoming mentors or help them network by recruiting them in your field of experience.

According to Carey Spear, a sophomore on the Vanderbilt football team, “Career Athletes has given me a chance to gain an edge over the competition by checking my resume and giving me advice on how to highlight the benefits of being a student-athlete.”

If you are interested in becoming a part of the Career Athletes network, go to careerathletes.com and sign up now. Take your future into your own hands by creating a profile today and start making connections or just ask questions and search the site for career advice or a personal coach. Since 1998, careerathletes.com has posted thousands of new internships and quality career opportunities every month.

Career Athletes possesses the largest member based community of current/alumni student-athletes, representing a growing legion of athletes, athletic departments and hundreds of national, regional and local employers. Today, our on-campus training and development seminars to student-athletes are the most relied upon in the nation, with over 1,000 seminars conducted and over 275,000 student-athletes educated on-campus within college athletic departments at the NCAA, NAIA and Junior Colleges level.