Emory Athletics Forms Partnership With Career Athletes
The Emory University Department of Athletics and Recreation,
Career Center and Career Athletes have recently agreed to a
partnership providing student-athletes a truly unique resource for
career development and professional networking.
This Online Career Community Network will provide benefits such as
mentoring, professional networking, virtual career coaching and 13
years of best practices from the leading and largest career
services organization assisting athletes, athletic departments and
campus career centers. Individual members of Career Athletes
are also able to network with over 90,000 former college athletes
from across the nation while having access to thousands of career
opportunities and internships exclusive to www.careerathletes.com.
Emory University’s Clyde Partin Sr. Director of Athletics and
Recreation, Tim Downes stated, “Through our partnership with
Career Athletes, we are achieving two very important goals:
providing our current student-athletes with the resources to
realize their career dreams and connecting our former
student-athletes back to the program. Career Athletes is
helping us grow our Emory Eagles family.”
Career Athletes provides a unique platform to connect with athletic
alumni, who are encouraged to join the network as mentors and/or
job seekers. Current Emory student-athletes and alumni can activate
their account on Career Athletes by going to www.careerathletes.com/emoryuniversity.
“It’s obvious that the administration at the Emory
University cares about its student-athletes beyond their playing
days and graduation, and we are excited to be partnered with such
an outstanding institution,” said Chris Smith CEO and
President of Career Athletes. “Due to the demanding nature of
collegiate athletics, these athletes face a unique set of
challenges regarding career development not typically experienced
by the general student-body. The current economic environment will
provide even greater challenges for today’s student-athletes
to overcome, making career development more important than
ever.”
About Career Athletes, LLC:
Career Athletes is the leading provider of a wide range of
dedicated career development services and software within
collegiate athletics. Since the inception of our roots back in
1998-to-date, athletes in every sport, from over 1,400 individual
colleges and universities nationwide, have utilized Career Athletes
as a valuable tool in their transition from athletics to the
workplace.
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 900 seminars conducted and over 260,000
student-athletes educated on-campus within college athletic
departments at the NCAA, NAIA and Junior Colleges level.
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