Sport
Sport can be part of your career, whether you’re a professional athlete, play for a club, coach a team, umpire or just play occasionally for fun.
Being involved in sport can give you a wide range of skills, experiences and abilities such as:
- a sense of fair play
- setting priorities and managing time
- planning and achieving goals
- problem solving
- understanding and following rules
- improving skills by training regularly
- communicating effectively
- playing as part of a team
- manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination
- physical agility
- judging spatial relationships
- self-discipline and control.
Many of these skills, experiences and abilities are highly valued in the workplace. Make sure you let potential employers know about them.
Professional athletes can use these skills, experiences and abilities to launch into other sports related occupations or change career fields altogether. But anyone who has experience of playing team or individual sports has demonstrated employability skills they can put to use in their working life.
