Summary: What strategy should you use to get your dream sports job? We have a few ideas on that concept, and we explore it in this short video:<br> <br> <br> WIS internal candidates<br> <br> // <br> <br> <br> <br> Video Transcript for "The Secret to Getting Your Dream Sports Job"<br> Brian Clapp, WorkinSports.com Director of Content: I've spent the majority of my career as a journalist, so it should come as no surprise that one of my favorite things to do is ask intelligent questions of people. I attended the recent <a title="Team USA Career Development Forum" href="http://www.teamusa.org/Careers/Internship-Program/2015-Team-USA-Career-Development-Forum-The-Business-Of-Sport" target="_blank">Team USA Career Development forum</a> and what was great about this forum is that they had large Q&A panels after their breakout sessions, where you could ask various questions of the Team USA executive staff.<br> <br> <br> <br> I had a chance to speak with the VP of Human Resources and I asked him - when you are hiring, do you have a preference for internal candidates or external candidates?<br> <br> His response made perfect sense. What he said was, sometimes you like to hire an internal candidate because it shows the rest of the staff that if they work hard they can be promoted, plus they already know the system so there is less training involved.<br> <br> He took it a step further saying, sometimes you like to hire external candidates because they bring fresh ideas, experience form somewhere else, ideas on process, creativity or how to achieve goals.<br> <br> His conclusion - each individual situation is different.<br> <br> Well, even though that is a logical and well articulated response - I'd like to take it one step further.<br> <br> If you are in the building, if you are one of those internal candidates, you've had a chance to show who you are, you've had a chance to impress hiring managers, to demonstrate your skill set. These other external candidates haven't had that benefit. The external candidates may be competing against 100 other people just to get noticed, but you, if you are already working in some capacity in the building, have the chance to get noticed every day.<br> <br> My advice to you, and the<a title="The Secret Hiring Manager know but you probably don't" href="http://www.workinentertainment.com/blog/the-secret-hiring-managers-know-but-you-probably-dont/" target="_blank"> secret that hiring managers</a> know but don't always share, is that your chances of getting promoted or escalating into your dream sports job are greatly increased by already being in the building. Always find a company you really want to work at and grow in, get your foot in the door and start impressing and knocking the socks off of everyone around you. That will lead to your dream sports job.
