The University of Portland Athletic Department and Career Athletes have agreed to a partnership providing student-athletes a truly unique resource for career development.
Over the past 12 years, Career Athletes has conducted over 900 training and development seminars at universities throughout the country providing much needed career education for over 260,000 student-athletes. In addition to their proprietary training and development seminars, Career Athletes builds and maintains customized career networking web sites for individual university athletic departments providing additional career education, mentors, access to career opportunities and potential employers upon graduation, and a platform to connect with athletic alumni who are encouraged to join the network as mentors and/or job seekers.
“The University of Portland is very excited to work with Career Athletes and bring this outstanding opportunity to both our current and alumni student-athletes,” said Lauren Esbensen, Portland’s director of compliance and student services. “University of Portland athletics strives to provide resources to help our student-athletes succeed not only in the classroom and on the field of play, but in their future professional lives as well.”
“It’s obvious that the administration at University of Portland cares about its student-athletes beyond their playing days and graduation, and we are excited to be partnered with such an outstanding institution,” said Chris Smith CEO and President of Career Athletes. “Due to the demanding nature of collegiate athletics, these athletes face a unique set of challenges regarding career development not typically experienced by the general student-body. The current economic environment will provide even greater challenges for today’s student-athletes to overcome, making career development more important than ever.”
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About Career Athletes, LLC:
Career Athletes is the leading provider of a wide range of dedicated career development services and software within collegiate athletics. Since the inception of our roots back in 1998-to-date, athletes in every sport, from over 1,200 individual colleges and universities nationwide, have utilized Career Athletes as a valuable tool in their transition from athletics to the workplace.
Career Athletes possesses the largest member based community of current/alumni student-athletes, representing a growing legion of athletes, athletic departments and hundreds of national, regional and local employers. Today, our on-campus training and development seminars to student-athletes are the most relied upon in the nation, with over 900 seminars conducted and over 260,000 student-athletes educated on-campus within college athletic departments at the NCAA, NAIA and Junior Colleges level.
