Event Management

For our first and only Event managment, we worked at the soccer game. We were the ball girls and our job was quite easy. We had to arrive a little early to learn what we were supposed to do and see if there was anything we could help Steve with. During the game we stood in foul territory and retrieved the balls as they were kicked out. We'd throw them back a ball so they could continue the game. I knew nothing about soccer and during the game I even got to learn a little bit. Our game went by a little slow because our boys were doing really good. At the end of the game we returned the balls. This experience taught me a lot and was a good activity to do.

Visiting the "Y"

Today we visited the YMCA in Canton. We had the pleasure of having Nicole Lawson as our speaker and our tour guide. She seemed to really know what she was talking about and she acted like she loved her job which is good. She handles memberships as well as the financial aspets at the Y. She explained to us the membership prices and what all we would have access to if we joined. It was a very interesting place and would be enjoyable to join. She also showed us around the whole place and it's pretty big. It has pools, basktball courts, a work out room, a day care, and even a track outside. They offer different classes like yoga, which is something I use to love to do. They're open from during the week from 5:30 in the morning to 9:30 at night. She also told us how we could potentially do our internships there if we went through the whole process and I think it'd be a neat place to maybe do mine. I enjoyed going here because I've never been to one; I've just always heard about it. I hope to go back soon!

5 career choices

The assignment was to look up five career/ internship choices that you felt interest in.
My first one that I picked out was an Administrative Coordinator. The location is in Phoneix and the position is looking for part time or full time. Some of the qualifications it includes are: organizational skills, budget management, and excellent verbal and communication skills. This is far away from home, but when I graduate I want to move out of state to work somewhere. This seems like it'd be a great opportunity.
My second career that I chose was a Director of Athletic Marketing. The qualifications are having a Bachelor's degree in marketing, sports management, business or related field and some experience. This job develops Intercollegiate Athletics marketing plan and promotes efforts. I chose this job because I'm up for any challenge and I may want to take my career path to the marketing side of sports.
The third career I chose was a Fitness Manager. This is the one I liked the best. It's location is Fort Lauderdale which is somewhere I'd love to live. The summary of the job is recruiting, hiring, developing and training. I love working out and being in shape and working with people so this would be an awesome opportunity!
The fourth career that I chose was am Account Executive for a Professional Sports Team. I've always wanted to work within a Sports team and this job sounds like just the fit for me. They are involved with NFL and MLB which is two things that I love to watch. You would make sale calls, and deal with ticket packages. I could totally see myself somewhere similiar to here.
My last career was Management Training. The job is full time and there is a guranteed commission plan. They are looking for competitive individuals who have the excitement to work. You don't have to have any prior marketing experience. This sounds like an intersting job that I'd be lucky to have.

Response to Becoming Invaluable

This was a great slide show that I really learned a lot from. It's teaching us to start planning now before it is too late. You really need to use your school courses and assignments to develop skills. When you join an organization, you want to add multiple values to it to make you look good. Reinhardt University is a Liberal Arts College that allows you to become the person you want to be, instead of someone else. You need to learn to reflect and reason while your in school, and make new friends while experiencing the college life. The question is where do you see yourself in five years? Where do you want to be? Starting off as a freshman, you need to get involved right away with any school activities. As a sophmore, you need to start thinking about experiences and building your skills for success. As a junior, your academics should be your main priority and start to develop leadership roles. And as a SENIOR, you need to determine whether or not you want to go to grad school, which I don't so I need to think of other options. I learned that we rank near the top with experiential learning requirements. You want to think about what skills you can demonstrate well? And some things that employers want to look for is outstanding grades, experiences, networking, and free time experience. I hope to do my internship with the Rome Braves, but we will see if anything else comes up. I need to start applying now so I can have a job in the summer. This slide show was a good reality check!!

Guest Speaker #2- Vic Mitchell

In Tuesday's class, September 7th, we had our second guest speaker for our Sports Administration class. He is currently coaching at Shorter University for women's basketball. He was an undergrad at the University of Ga, and also managed men's basketball in 1981. His first job was surprisingly at Reinhardt College, which back then was a Junior College. He was here for 6 years and was the head coach for basketball. He explained that in a sports related profession, you must bring people together by having people skills. He started at Shorter in 1990 and also coached slowpitch softball for three years. After that, cross country for five, and women's golf for another five. Coach Mitchel decided to leave Reinhardt, because Rome seemed to be the right choice for many reasons. For one, more stability, and it was a bigger town with much more to do than good ole Waleska, and also personal reasons. He told us how Shorter gives away 24 full ride scholorships to football players and how there's more than 100 players on the team. There's also a roster minumum you have to maintain. He set a good example for our class and I really enjoyed his speech!

Guest Speaker- Peggy Collins

In Tuesday's class, we had a guest speaker. Her name was Peggy Collins and her job title is the Director of Career Services and she's part of the Reinhardt Organization. Her purpose of coming to talk to us was to explain resumes. Ms. Collins was precise with the way she explained everything and it was clear to understand her language. There are two types of resumes. A chronological manner and a freelance writer summary. She suggested to maybe do both. There's a website on Reinhardt that helps you out greatly when it comes to making a resume. She touched base on that and showed us how to make an account and what all is on it.There's also another website thats called collegecentral.com. You can create a portfolio and view video clips. You can start preparing for interviews since job searching will be arriving for everyone soon. She told us we could come to her anytime we want with questions or help. I learned a lot from her!