- Attract better candidates
- Benefit for ALL student-athletes
- Increase loyalty and retention
- Increase contributions
- Get positive PR
- Outsourced implementation & management
- Aligns athletic goals with student-athlete and parent goal of employment after graduation
NIL Shouldn’t Be Just About MONEY!
The 98 percent of student-athletes NOT advancing to professional sports will need additional career and job search support to make sure they WIN the college to career transition!
Student-athletes deserve the financial rewards the name, image, and likeness movement is offering them. One way we can make sure ALL student-athletes benefit from NIL is by providing specialized career and professional development programming that will fit their schedule and better prepare them for their first professional job search.
"Opendorse predicts a competitive NIL collective in the top tier of Power 5 schools will need to commit an average of $10 million to players, with “middle of the pack” Power 5 collectives offering between $5 million-$10 million. "
ALL Students Are UNPREPARED for their first Professional Job Search!
Research by AfterCollege has shown 88 percent of college grads leave campus without a job. Worse, it will take the average grad nearly eight months to land a job, costing them over $4,000 in lost salary each month!
With the enormous commitment student-athletes make to training, practice, team meetings and traveling to and from games, there is little time for them to visit the career center during their limited 9-5 office hours!
The Athlete Career Training program brings career and professional development programming to student-athletes while they are walking across campus, waiting for the next class at the student union or traveling to the next game!
The Facts!
Ave. Compensation per athlete
| NCAA - Division l | $10,433 |
| NCAA - Division ll | $371 |
| NCAA - Division lll | $738 |
| NAIA | $233 |
Texas A&M Football team players are each getting $50,000 per year!
81 percent of graduates wished they had done more to prepare for their first professional job search while in college.
61 percent of graduating college seniors will NEVER visit the career center or only visit once or twice. The average grad will take nearly 8 months to find a job!
88 percent of grads leave campus without a job lined up!
52 percent of college graduates were UNDEREMPLOYED one year after graduating
Average time for student loan borrower to pay off their student loans is 21.1 years!
