Choose your position
Get specific about the function, level, and business problems you are actually qualified to solve.
Sports & entertainment careers | Play Your Career Hand™
You do not have a passion problem. You have a positioning problem.
Sports and entertainment hiring teams already know you love the industry. They need proof that you can solve a business problem inside it. I help you turn transferable experience, real results, and industry interest into a story worth betting on.
Book a FREE Discovery Call20+ years in recruitingGoogle · Meta · TKO: UFC, WWE & PBR · Sports and entertainment hiring
The honest read
Being a fan gets you interested. Skills get you hired.
- You are applying to partnerships, marketing, events, operations, and anything else with a team logo on it.
- Your experience transfers, but your résumé makes the hiring team perform archaeology to see it.
- You are networking by asking strangers for jobs instead of building relationships people will put their name behind.
- You sound passionate in interviews, but the proof that you can do the work is getting buried.
- You keep chasing the biggest logo instead of the role that will give you ownership, reps, and a stronger next hand.
Real sports hiring-room experience
I know what changes when the logo on the building is famous.
Sports candidates keep running into the same questions: how to break through, build relationships without sounding transactional, translate experience from another industry, interview like a real person, and become someone a recruiter remembers for the right reasons.
I recruited across TKO’s UFC, WWE, and PBR brands. I know the difference between being excited to get into the building and showing why the business should trust you once you are there.
How I help
Pick a lane. Prove the fit. Build the relationships.
Translate the evidence
Make experience from sports or another industry feel relevant without calling everything a transferable skill and hoping for the best.
Build real relationships
Create a focused relationship map and outreach strategy that starts with curiosity, credibility, and follow-through.
Earn the interview
Prepare stories that show what you personally owned, how you think, and what happened because you were there.
Sports career intelligence
Passion is lovely. It is not a résumé bullet.
The route into sports starts with a business function, credible evidence, and relationships built around the work. Your résumé should prove where you fit before a famous logo is asked to validate you.
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A real book for a very confusing industry.
The honest playbook for breaking in, moving up, and getting hired.
The book I wish every sports candidate could read before applying to 200 vaguely related jobs, asking a stranger to “pick their brain,” or calling a role their dream job before proving they can do it.
Ways to work with me
Sports career help at the level you need.
Choose the $600 VIP Sports Career Accelerator for a strategy and tools you execute independently, or a full strategy package with ongoing support: $750 for entry-level clients, $1,500 for experienced professionals at Manager level and below, and $3,000 above Manager level through the executive package.
FREE Discovery Call | 30 Minutes
Start with a FREE Discovery Call.
Bring your résumé, LinkedIn profile, target roles, and what’s been happening in your search. We’ll figure out where things are getting stuck, what kind of help would actually be useful, and whether working together makes sense.
FREE30 MinutesBook a FREE Discovery Call
VIP Sports Career Accelerator
$600
Strategy buildout for you to execute independently
A discovery call, résumé and LinkedIn repositioning, a target job-search and networking strategy, and tools to continue executing the plan yourself. No ongoing support is included.
Book a FREE Discovery CallFull Career Strategy Buildout + Ongoing Support
$1,500
Manager level and below · Four weeks of weekly meetings, followed by ongoing support
Build and put your career strategy into action, including résumé and LinkedIn positioning, target companies, and networking and outreach. Interview preparation, offer negotiation, and ongoing guidance are included until you accept your next opportunity.
Book a FREE Discovery CallFull job-search packages by career level: Entry-level: $750; experienced professionals at Manager level and below: $1,500; above Manager level: $3,000. Each includes ongoing support. The $600 VIP Sports Career Accelerator is a separate, self-directed option.
Full strategy package: my support doesn’t end after four weeks.
We meet weekly for the first four weeks to build and put your career strategy into action—from your résumé and LinkedIn positioning to the companies you’re targeting and how you approach them. You’ll have action items between meetings, and I’ll be working on your strategy alongside you.
After that, we stay connected through email check-ins to review progress, work through questions, and adjust your approach. When interviews come up, we meet to prepare. When an offer comes in, we talk through the opportunity and how to negotiate.
You have my support and guidance until you accept your next opportunity, however long that takes. Interview preparation and offer negotiation meetings are included in your job-search package.
See every support optionInterviewing, outreach, negotiation, ongoing strategy, and higher-touch partnerships
These are separate options for people seeking focused help. Full job-search package clients already have interview preparation, offer negotiation, and continued search support included.
Focused support
Quick Read
$150
30 minutes
A direct recruiter read of your résumé or LinkedIn profile, what says business candidate, what says superfan, and what to fix first.
Book nowSports Career Positioning
$450
Résumé + LinkedIn
Position both tools around the sports-business problems you can solve, with proof that travels from another industry when needed.
Book nowSports Career Clarity
$250
60 minutes
Choose your lane, identify realistic entry points, and stop applying to every role that happens to involve a ball, stage, screen, or arena.
Book nowSports Interview Preparation
$250
60 minutes
Turn industry passion into business proof and prepare for the questions sports hiring teams actually use to separate candidates.
Book nowSports Networking & Outreach
$250
60 minutes
Map the teams, properties, agencies, brands, and people who can open the right doors, then approach them with a credible story.
Book nowOffer Negotiation Support
$250
At offer stage
Evaluate the opportunity, compensation, title, and career tradeoffs before you accept the logo instead of the job.
Book nowAlready a client? Use the private scheduling link provided with your engagement.
Free recruiter-calibrated diagnostic
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Unicorn Signal shows you what a recruiter notices in the first five seconds and where your sports-career signal gets lost.
Stop applying. Start positioning.
Your fandom explains why you care. Your evidence explains why they should hire you.
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