Athlete365 Career+ - Athlete365

What do we offer?

Athlete365 Career+ offers tailored advice, workshops, learning tools and resources to help you plan your career path and navigate towards success.

Athlete365 Career+ empowers you to explore the importance of pursuing education and preparing for the labour market in order to stride more confidently into a dual and post-sports career, through:

Career planning and guidance

Skills building

Employment support

Networking opportunities

Preparing for your next career is like preparing for the Olympic Games.

Paul Wylleman

Professor of Sport Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

When looking at your career transition, there are many things that you need to plan. Obviously, some of you may be forced out of sports – due to injury or other factors – while others will be able to choose when you finish. And that’s why it is important to have a plan in place and to be prepared.

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Increase your self-knowledge and
self-confidence

Explore how to balance sport and education

Transfer your skills and increase your chances of succeeding in the workplace

Learn how to transform your business ideas into reality

Grow your network and develop new perspectives

Dual Career

Education is the key to success. But how can you find an optimal balance between workouts and education and vocational training? Do you want to achieve success beyond sport? As an athlete, it’s vital that you choose a school, university or employer that will work with you to achieve your aims for both your education and your sports career.

Workshops

The Athlete365 Career+ workshops are designed to provide advice to athletes on how to navigate their career beyond sport. The topics focus on life skills, education and employment, and range from self-knowledge to how to write a CV/résumé, while learning from and connecting with fellow Olympians and athletes.

Athlete Career Portal

Athlete365 Career+ provides you with 12 months’ access to the Athlete Career Portal, where you can benefit from advice, self-assessments, CV and interview tips, job opportunities and access to online courses. Sign up today and be best prepared for your next career steps.

Mentoring

Boost your career prospects beyond sport with Athlete365 Mentoring and become the person you want to be next. This is a unique opportunity for you to expand your network, identify and grow your passions, and develop your unique skill set.

Employment

Did you know that the skills, experiences and achievements you have gained in your sports career are also valuable in the business world? Learn how to transfer these competencies and translate your athlete skills into the business language, and find out about career opportunities in the Olympic Movement.

Business Accelerator

Have you been thinking about starting your own business and turning your ideas into reality?

The Business Accelerator is a three-stage programme that supports you to develop your entrepreneurship initiative and create your own business.

Career Transition

Learn more about why early preparation is important for transitioning into a new career, how you can make your transition a success, and how you can use the skills you’ve learnt in sport in the process.

Career Transition: Preparing for Future Success

Prepare for future success with our online course that will teach you all you need to know about how to make a successful career transition. Our experts Gearoid Towey and Tracy Hardy will help you look forward to the new chapter of your life after sport.

Boardroom Ready

Double Olympic gold medallist and former IOC Athletes’ Commission Chair, Kirsty Coventry provides personal insight and advice on how to make the transition from sport to the boardroom.

Professional Sport Management

Experts Dr David Shilbury, Dr Pamm Phillips and Dr Adam Karg guide you through our Professional Sport Management course. Using real-world examples from sporting organisations globally, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the business of sport.

Sport Event Management

Dr Benoît Séguin and Dr Milena Parent provide you with a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to plan and host a sporting event. You’ll learn about business plans and financing and will come away with the tools to succeed in sport event management.

Sports Coaching

From learning to effectively communicate to creating a positive environment for your athletes, this course acts as a comprehensive toolkit for sports coaching and provides you with an in-depth understanding of what it takes to become an outstanding sports coach.

Career

‘As an athlete, you really do get to live twice’

Three-time Olympic champion Nicco Campriani OLY explains why you should relish the opportunity to begin a new chapter in your life after sport.

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Getting a head start on a new career

Runner Nikki Hamblin shares her experience of the value of pursuing your passions off the field of play.

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Step into a new career

Find out how, like Jackie, you can make the most of your athletic skill set in a brave new world.

OLY

Competing at the Olympic Games entitles you to apply for an official OLY title. OLY can be used anywhere that features your name, such as on your CV or your social media channels. With this comes a whole host of benefits for your career prospects.

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PLY

Competing at the Paralympic Games entitles you to apply for an official PLY title. PLY can be used anywhere that features your name, such as on your CV or your social media channels. With this comes a whole host of benefits for your career prospects.

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WORKSHOPS

The Athlete365 Career+ workshops have definitely helped me to explore diverse future career choices and it helped me start a new life outside competitive sport. It has supported me to discover and develop myself and my skills.

BUSINESS ACCELERATOR

What the Athlete365 Business Accelerator workshop in New York really emphasised was that as Olympians, we have the power to make a difference in society.

MENTORING

The mentoring programme helped me come to terms with a lot of the things that I needed to consider and helped me strategise how to start that next phase of my life.

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