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Services – Sportspeople
‘Second Innings’ is a unique careers programme developed by Mulraine Sport. It has been specifically designed to assist you make the right career choices and to help you market yourself more effectively. We provide expert help and tailor-made services that utilise recruitment and career coaching techniques.
Second Innings is made up of 5 core modules: ‘The Life and Work Wheel’, ‘Personal Profile and Career Match’, ‘CV and Application Letter Writing’, ‘Practical Interview Training’ and finally the ‘Personal Recruiter’.
The Life and Work Wheel
Every individual has talents, ambitions and priorities that are unique to them. The Life and Work Wheel is a simple exercise that enables you to recognise the key values that motivate you, to identify whether these values are being met, to learn how values influence your decisions, to develop a better self-awareness and to truly understand what you really want and how to obtain it.
Personal Profile and Career Match
We will put together a personal profile which will outline your working characteristics, training requirements, career advice and strengths and limitations. In order to create this document you will complete a simple questionnaire. The responses are analysed to provide accurate information on your working style, capacity to work under pressure as well as an insight into your personality, communication skills, levels of confidence and creativity and social and technical skills. We will then carry out a 1.5-hour telephone interview based upon a structured career advice questionnaire designed by Loughborough University, which provides career matching. After this telephone interview has taken place, we will provide you with a lengthy document which covers up to 60 carefully matched career choices and which will be discussed in depth with your personal recruiter.
CV and Application Letter Writing
In such a competitive market it is vital that your CV and Application Letter accurately reflect your unique selling points. We help to answer common questions:
- Why do I need a CV?
- What should my CV actually look like?
- Am I able to tailor it to suit different jobs?
- What style should I adopt for an application letter?
By using the detail from the Personal Profile, we are able to create CVs and Letters that are individual and focus on your strengths and achievements.
Practical Interview Training
We provide expert tips and practical interview techniques to cover the following areas:
- Preparing for an interview.
- Company research.
- Interview styles – competency based, role play, presentations.
- Communication tools – body language.
- Offer negotiation.
Personal Recruiter
Our unique selling point is that one of our advisors will act as your personal recruitment consultant. We will then personally act on your behalf to market your skills to targeted companies that we have agreed suit your talents and style of working. Prior to interviews we will provide you with a full job brief outlining the role responsibilities with a company overview, comprehensive preparation before each interview and finally we will handle any salary negotiations before firm offers are made. Our pledge to you is that we will be there all the way with you in order to make your transition from sport to professional employment, painless, stress free and ultimately a fun experience!
