Nevada Partners with Podium X

RENO, Nev. – Nevada Athletics and Podium X announced Tuesday a partnership dedicated towards enhancing career-development services for Wolf Pack student athletes. Tuesday’s announcement also makes Nevada the first Mountain West institution to partner with Podium X.

Podium X is a new digital solution, the result of two years of research and development by experts in career services with extensive experience in staffing and recruiting, training/development, talent management, and human resources.

“We’re excited to partner with Podium X. It’s a valuable tool that will help our student athletes build their resumes in a way that highlights what they do each day in their sport. This shows Nevada’s commitment to helping our student-athletes be confident and prepared for their life after sport,” said Nevada Director of Student-Athlete Development Kim Gross.

Podium X focuses on relevant, transferrable skills garnered through athletics and changes the way athletes prepare and apply for jobs and launch meaningful careers. The Podium X platform (www.podiumx.com) allows the creation of an online profile that can be customized specifically for athletes to create a personal brand, tell their story, highlight their sports experience and skills while helping them stand out from the crowd. It also reduces the often-cumbersome challenge of creating a resume by offering an online process, a market-based skills assessment, and a one button PDF resume creator.

The profile serves as an enhanced resume listing business and athletic experience, leadership and educational experience, even media clips about their sports careers. Students can create traditional resume PDFs with a click of a button. If they are looking for a job, they can be matched to hundreds of national job openings with employers who are looking specifically for former athletes and the qualities that make them winners. These companies post job openings and can view student profiles that match the skills they need.

Nevada’s career development staff will benefit from Podium X as well. The Podium profiles will help them understand the backgrounds, skills, and goals of the student-athletes with whom they work. The students will have more confidence in their transferable skills and experiences, and the career staff will be better able to personalize their programming and preparation to launch the students into the right opportunity for them.

Podium X is backed by the power of XPG Recruit Athlete, a division of Jacksonville, Fla. – based XPG Recruit, that has staff who specialize in placing student athletes. CEO Rich Thompson said, “We know that student-athletes have many of the qualities employers are looking for in today’s tight labor market. Grit, resilience, teamwork, focus … they’re ideal entry-level employees, and we want to connect them with companies eager to hire fresh, dedicated talent.”