Technology platform helps student-athletes gain notice for careers, internships, grad school, and NIL opportunities.
By: Athletics Communications
Texas State Athletics is enhancing its commitment to its student-athletes with the addition of Podium X to its student placement services. Podium X is a digital solution developed by experts in career services with extensive experience in staffing and recruiting, training/development, talent management, and human resources. The application changes the way athletes prepare and apply for jobs and internships as well as market themselves for NIL opportunities.
“Texas State is pleased to offer our student-athletes a progressive tool for the current generation to create an individual profile and resume for career opportunities,” said Tori Clark, Director, Student Athlete Development at Texas State. “We recognize that student-athletes have a unique journey and have developed valuable skills through their experiences. Podium X helps them share their own story and showcase these special skills and abilities.”
The Podium X platform allows creation of an online profile that is specially designed for athletes to highlight their unique journey and valuable soft skills often developed through athletics. 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 touch of a button and be matched to hundreds of national job openings. Employers post job openings and can view student profiles that match the skills they need.
“Podium X provides a tool that’s intuitive to use and combines the best features of today’s social platforms with solid career building strategy,” Clark says. “We’re sure that our students will find it both useful and easy to manage, even with their busy training schedules.”
Texas State’s career development staff will benefit from Podium X as well. The student profiles will help them understand the backgrounds, skills, and goals of the student-athletes they work with. The students will have more confidence in their transferable skills and experiences, and career staff will better be 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, with an experienced team that specializes in placing student athletes. Founder Rich Thompson said, “Most platforms like LinkedIn focus on traditional work experience, which is often difficult for student-athletes who have little time beyond school and athletics. With Podium X and XPG Recruit Athlete, we want to show how athletic experience is every bit as valuable as traditional work and demonstrate how those skills learned through athletics are transferable to the workplace.”
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