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A great way to gain exposure to potential employers is to go to a sports career fair.
Many of these sports career fairs are hosted by professional teams who bring in a lot of
different businesses from the region all looking to hire people.
So what do you bring when you go to a sports career fair?
* At least 20 Copies of your Resume * Business Cards
* Three to Four Pens * A Reporter’s Notebook
Every person you meet with you want to take out the reporters notebook and jot down some
notes; names, titles, facts, any information that they gave you that you’ll probably
forget if you don’t write it down immediately. You’ll want to have a bunch of copies of
your resume and business cards because that’s what you are going to leave behind with the
various recruiters. The key thing to have on those items, both
your resume and business cards, are links to your writing samples, demo reels, whatever
work you have done that you can share you want to have front and center so the recruiter
can go look at it afterwards and learn more about what you can do in sports and how you
can help their company. You might be thinking to yourself, I don’t
plan on being a sports reporter so why would I need a demo reel? It’s simple:
I think everybody in sports television should have a demo reel.
If you’ve produced shows in college, put together some of the segments you’ve produced,
if you’ve shot video put together some of the camera work you have done, if you’ve
edited, if you’ve done audio, if you’ve done graphic design put together your portfolio
into a demo reel so that you can show off your skills, what you’ve done and what you’ve
accomplished. Remember television is a visual medium, don't tell me what you've done show
me! Now when you go to a sports career fair, and
you leave a recruiter with a link to what you have done you look technologically savvy,
you look just a bit ahead of everybody else…it doesn’t matter of you are an aspiring reporter
or anchor whoever you are or want to be, you can benefit from having a top notch demo reel
to show off your work to potential employers at a sports career fair.