Student Athletes
Career Services recognizes the importance of providing well-rounded learning experiences for student athletes. Our career coaches work alongside the athletic department to provide leadership growth opportunities & ensure that student athletes are equipped with professional, career readiness skills to serve and shape them as future professionals.
Our Goals
Our goal is to coach student athletes on their personal career goals as well as how to best relay, market, and model professional skills to prospective employers and coaches. We offer individualized career coaching that covers:
Career Planning
Employability skills
Professionalism
Our career coaches are prepared to meet the needs of individual students to help them grow, develop, and communicate their unique skillset. Student athletes will develop many professional skills throughout the course of their education and athletic engagement, including:
Teamwork
Time management
Communication
Leadership
Receptiveness to Feedback
Discipline
Before leaving NCTC, we suggest that all students, including student athletes, work with a career coach to develop and gain an understanding of these key employability skills and documents:
References
Cover letter
Job Search and Networking Strategies