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I am currently a student who will be graduating in May with a Bachelors in Business Adminstration with a specialization in Sports Management. I have been on the job hunt for at least a month or so now, and was wondering if anyone had any ideas on good places to look online and such, or maybe I would be lucky enough with someone in a related field that could point me in the right direction. I live in eastern Ohio right now near Steubenville, but would be more than willing to relocate.

Sorry, I know this is probably an odd post, I just thought there may be some people with some ideas of where to look and what not. Thanks.

There are tons of job sites, monster.com hotjobs.com, etc... that you can check out.

Also, think about what you'd like to do and look at companies that either do that or that would help you get the experience to get to where you want to.

Or, based on your specialization, look at cities with a great sports scene - you have the biggies like NY, Chicago, Boston with lots of pro sports or cities like Denver, or Seattle that have sports teams and tons of other sports (climbing, skiing, cycling, etc...) ingrained in their community.

Finally, I'll pimp Portland - great city and an underrated sports city - only 1 big league team, but MLS is coming in 2011 (The Timbers play here now, one level down), AAA baseball (with single A 45 minutes south), WCL hockey, Pro Lacrosse, tons of skiing and climbing close by, a huge running and biking city, one of the best windsurfing locations in the world is in the gorge, and is the home to Nike, Adidas US, Janzen, Columbia, Gleukos (sports energy drink), and I'm sure more (mind is blank...)

I've lived in a lot of cities and travel to a lot of others. Here are my favorites. They are a list of cities that have a lot to do both in terms of both urban and rural activities. I tend to like smaller cities where you can live on the outskirts but still get around everywhere pretty easily.

Cleveland - hometown love. if you can find something in Ohio, it is a cheap and nice place to live.

Austin - my current hometown. tons to do whether you are young or old, whether you like to spend time on 6th street clubbing or out in the country at festivals with the family, et cetera. love the weather and love that it's Texas, yet it's still green here. also, close enough to drive to SA, Dallas and Houston.

Portland - i'll follow up on that recommendation. I love visiting that city. best city in the NW even if SF and Seattle get more pub.

Sacramento - except for it being in the crazy state of CA. easy to drive to Tahoe and SF/Monterrey. great weather.

Raleigh - another really underrated city with good weather and plenty to do.

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as for the job search:

the main job sites like monster and such are fine and you need to look at them just in case.

however, you really need to narrow what your top 3-5 types of jobs are. and then go directly onto the websites of the companies/teams/universities that might have these jobs and see if they have anything available.

if they do, apply. if they don't, see if you can visit with someone in the department you might be interested in and talk with them and do your homework ahead of time to know everything they are about so you can explain why you want to work for them and why they need to hire you. mention that you understand they are not hiring right now but if they have an opening to make sure you know.

Yeah, the online sites are a little helpful, but they seem to be full of spam anymore and it is quite difficult to try to sort through all of it. But I have been using them. I have also been looking at local teams, and even local sporting goods locations.

Portland is great. It's a perfect sized city at around a million people. Lots to do, good music, great views, incredible fishing, warm non humid weather, an international airport, reasonable housing costs for a west coast city of this size... but the job market sucks. A lot of post grad and 30 something young professionals relocate to Portland. Making the job market a tough competition.

The phone book. No kidding when I graduated ( during a recession ) I went through the phone book and sent out 600 letters, and called most of them after the letter. I did end up getting a great job.


I am not saying the internet isnt a good place to look. It is a great resource just keep looking everywhere.

Quantity and perseverance is the key. Its a numbers game the more people you contact the more likely you will get a job. Make it a full time job trying to get a job, try and put in 40 hour weeks looking.

I would really recommend looking at talking to a staffing agency or temp job place. Before I moved to DC, I got in contact with several, and found work through one right when I moved here. I got great experience/connections through them and am now working at a great non-profit here in DC with a great job. Really helped me as a recent college grad myself ('08) when the market was absolutely terrible, esp for a recent grad with little experience. I tried places like Monster/Career Builder but found most to be spam or the dreaded commission only sales gig. I had better luck with Graig's List, which actually had decent jobs listed. I got several interviews with places through that route.

It's really tough, but you have to keep at it. Its really through a stroke of luck, as most places I have talked to stop even looking at resume's after 2 hours of the posting going up because they receive so many it becomes over whelming. Any specifics or issues I would be glad to address as I have recently been through it myself.

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