The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Provides Career Development Platform to Athletes
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference(GLIAC) is the inaugural conference to offer student-athletes Podium X’s career development and personal marketing tools, marking 53 formal partnerships with universities and organizations. Podium X changes how student-athletes prepare and apply for jobs and internships and market themselves for NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) prospects. This historical partnership provides all GLIAC student-athletes with Podium X’s comprehensive resume and interview toolkit for freshmen through seniors, as well as alumni.
“To become the first collegiate conference whose full membership has partnered with Podium X places the GLIAC at the forefront of student-athlete stewardship,” said GLIAC Commissioner Kris Dunbar. “This agreement reinforces our schools’ sustained commitment in aiding our student-athlete’s transition from the field and the classroom to the workplace. The tools and resources offered by Podium X will provide GLIAC student-athletes with a decided advantage as they progress towards accessing professional opportunities and achieving long-term career goals.”
The Podium X platform (www.podiumx.com) takes a fresh approach to the student-athlete experience by offering an online profile that is specially designed for athletes to highlight their unique journey and valuable soft skills often developed through athletics. This Podium Profile serves as an enhanced resume listing business, athletic, leadership, and educational experience, even media clips about their sports careers. Students can create traditional resume PDFs with one click, apply to jobs within the platform or externally with AI assistance to create cover letters, thank you notes, interview prep and resume optimization. With the recent addition of an all-encompassing resume parser, athletes can upload and customize resumes with 20 templates, fonts, colors, column spacing, and more.
“It’s a big statement to step forward and gain commitment of every member of their conference, but I am not surprised that the GLIAC is the first to do it with Podium X,” says Ann Schulz, President of Podium X. “We know that the GLIAC is looking to lead Division II athletics, both on and off the field. We are so impressed with how they put their athletes first and are constantly looking for ways to bring value to their member schools.”
While the conference has joined as a whole, each affiliated school receives its own onboarding process, individual announcements, and separate user agreement.
Founded in 1972, the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is a nationally-recognized leader in the advancement and promotion of intercollegiate athletics. Spanning the states of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, the current membership includes 11 institutions: Davenport University, Ferris State University (charter member), Grand Valley State University, Lake Superior State University (charter member), Michigan Technological University, Northern Michigan University, Purdue University Northwest, Roosevelt University, Saginaw Valley State University (charter member), Wayne State University and the University of Wisconsin Parkside. The conference has grown to offer championships in 21 sports while rising to prominence on the national level as GLIAC teams and student-athletes have achieved unmatched success both in the classroom and on the fields of play.
Podium X is the premier solution for athlete career development, designed by experts in career services, staffing, talent management, and HR. Trusted by over 22,000 athletes, representing more than 450 schools, and formally partnered with 53 organizations, Podium X offers a comprehensive set of tools to support athletes throughout the career development and recruitment process, as well as enhancing personal branding and marketing for sponsorship opportunities.
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