First-person career narrative about breaking into sports marketing: the speaker interned in community and player relations with the Texas Rangers, finished graduate school, struggled to find a first full-time job (including physically mailing resumes), and—about six months after completing their master’s—received offers from the Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Falcons after attending an NBA job fair where they also spoke with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
But I. I got a job in community and player relations interning with the Texas Rangers. And I was like, this is it for me. Because I always knew that what I loved the most was the impact side of sports. Yeah. So initially, that's where I was going to go. And then I get out of grad school, that internship's done, I can't find a job. You know, obviously, like, it's hard to get, you know, your first full time job in sports. And again, that was back in the day when, like, you're emailing. Not. Not emailing. We didn't even email at that point. You would, like, print out your resume, get the address. You would mail your resume out to all these different people. So I'm doing that whole Jazz and other people are telling me, like, it takes a while, it takes a while. For me, it was six months after I got my master's, before I got an offer at that point from the Atlanta Hawks and the Atlanta Falcons. And it wasn't that I was stuck on coming back here to Atlanta, but it just worked out that way. I went to an NBA job fair, and I was like, talking to Minnesota Timberwolves.
