HOW TO GET A JOB IN FOOTBALL/SOCCER? SPORTS INDUSTRY insights| Land Your Dream Job After College/Uni

hi guys my name is Luna and welcome back

to my channel I hope you're all doing

well and a few months ago I did a video

where I was reviewing my university I

did sports business and sports law at EC

um bleh and since then I've been getting

so many DMS and so many comments and so

many messages on LinkedIn about my first

job after uni so I work in one of the

championships clubs in London UK

I work in commercial sector in a work

and partnerships and sponsorships ah so

I thought it was gonna be a good idea to

give you guys some tips and one video

just to combine it all so if you have

any questions or you're wondering how

are you gonna lend that job

straight after uni in football and

sports in general make sure to watch

this video so when it was time for me to

decide which uni I want to go for and I

was searching and searching and

initially I wanted to become a lawyer

and then work in sports but then I was

like you know what what what if I do

something sports related straight away

without training how to become a lawyer

first

so instead of doing the normal regular

law course I did sports business and

sports like it'd be Wembley I did Google

it and I have really good reviews and I

saw their YouTube channel I was like

done deal I'm moving to London so I

packing my bags yeah and I moved to

London and it was the person that was

far away from home but never mind

like before going to uni I had this idea

in my head that I am gonna you know

first week I'm gonna learn this amazing

internship that I'm gonna work and

Chelsea if see that I'm you know like I

had this vision in my head of how my

life will look like and I was dressing

so hard because I was like oh my god

apart from uni I need to do work

placements I need to do this I need to

do that and I was really stressed and

the thing is

I'm gonna be honest with you if you want

to get a work experience and football

it is hard especially with the football

clubs it is quite hard to do it because

there's so many people who want to do it

and usually they would just take like a

one intern or maybe a few more I know

men city they do like a graduate scheme

and they take on a few people straight

after uni and then you know they train

them and stuff and you work like an

analyst for them but the majority of the

clubs you have to be a graduate to do

that if you want to do like unpaid stuff

I found it really really hard to find

something on my own and I was like okay

I need to keep going I need to figure

this out on my own

and then I remember there was so many

conferences happening in Wembley Stadium

because this is where my university was

and at first I was like I got this like

email from me and he's saying like oh so

you want to volunteer at the sports

pro-life conference and I was like oh my

god so I read the email and it was like

just honestly just showing people

directions and there's so many

opportunities like that just to do like

a volunteer experience for a weekend or

just for a day and there's so many

people who didn't do this it was just me

and two other guys from my Eenie even

though those like I don't know fifty

volunteers there and there's only three

of us and I was like oh my god this is

gonna be horrendous and then I thought

okay let's do this

of course pro-life there's so many

influential people in there I'm just

gonna do it so I remember I dressed up

really professionally l12 that okay I to

the stadium I was saying hello to people

registering them in and they were just

going you know I'm going and moving and

moving and I didn't even have like this

chance to speak to them so and that's

how I felt I felt like this you know

being a volunteer it's not good enough

like I need to have a proper work

experience sitting in the office and

learn

and you know doing this five days out of

seven and I remember that was a lunch

break and I remember inside when they CD

and there's like a big hole where

everyone could get a drink or

refreshment and stuff like that and I

remember I was in a queue and I was

getting green tea because green tea is

so much better than coffee it is I love

green tea I mean it doesn't matter but I

do love it and the guy behind me uh he

was hesitant he didn't know what to get

and suddenly he was like how could I

have black coffee and then I was like oh

no take green tea you know I was like

you talked to someone who's like

hesitant in making a little contact and

then he's like oh yeah I fly and then we

started smiling at each other and then

we started talking over green tea and he

was actually the founder and the

director of one of the big TV rights

companies and in the Europe or in the

world and and he's and he's also an

owner of Leeds United now I don't I

don't think he was a owner at that time

I had no idea who he was I just knew

that he had like a red linear and which

meant that he's a speaker at the event

and then we talked and talked and he

told me like you know at first is hard

but you need to get into there and for

me even though I never worked for this

guy after all

I did ask for his business card and he

kindly gave it to me he is such a nice

person

and this was the first step for me my

god I did networking because it was for

the first time in my life I had to out

you know speak to someone I didn't know

and they come out of my comfort zone and

just go and do it myself and if I didn't

go to that you know one day or I think

it was three days two or three days

volunteer experience I would have never

had the opportunity to network and meet

people like this and just hearing them

encouraging me hearing him saying like

you'll do it you'll just do just fine

just against that if you go to uni my

advice to you is go there but don't

expect everything to be given to you

like I thought I was gonna get offer

this you know amazing work experience

straight away because that's not a thing

you need to do certain tiny bits in

order to get where you want to be so

that was my first big step I was doing

every single voluntary thing that you

could possibly think of every conference

even if it was just you know greeting

guests go for that one you're not gonna

get paid let go you're gonna meet a lot

of people even like meeting person

waiting for green tea in the queue you

know you never know who you're gonna

meet you never know who's gonna give you

a business card

ask for business cards as well if you

need someone you talk to them you smile

with them and laugh with them and you

have a great chat say oh this could I

please have your business card I'd love

to get in touch and I also did in New

York marathons I remember there was an

opportunity to work during London

Marathon and I did it for two years and

it was actually a paid experience and

you were um doing certain bits in the

Excel center I was actually in the New

Balance done and before that I was in

added s them because these were the main

sponsors and I met so many people

representing New Balance and

representing adidas so if you're

thinking about you know not only word

King and football or and you know sports

organizations but you know brands if you

actually meet somebody from Nike Adidas

or New Balance you know they're

marketing directors they're digital

directors as well and I was so shocked

because not many people actually when

they're to do this so my advice e if

you're ready euni-unni is your time to

shine not only academically academically

not only doing assignments and you know

raising your hand in those lectures but

also doing tiny tiny small things it is

possible to get work experience if

you're a ye-yeah it's probably not gonna

be paid or probably it's gonna be like

expenses paid or something and if you do

get a paid one that's amazing I applaud

you but the thing is is very

unlikely especially first two years you

don't know much if you don't have the

connections you're not gonna work full

time so my advice to you is the tiny

tiny tiny steps and you'll get there

like I did another thing that I did is

to register on different website I'm

gonna link them down below one of them

is definitely the English FA I remember

they posted a job saying that they want

somebody to go to Suns George's Park and

take care of the fronds under-20 players

and because I spoke French I put on my

CV and I put on my cover letter I

actually managed to do this and I did it

I think three or four times no missile

three or four that's too much once or

twice I think I went to since George's

Park and I was the liaison between

French and Fay in English FA and my job

was to make sure that the French FA was

happy over Thursday whatever they wanted

to be posting on social media or

whatever they wanted you know laundry

done whatever I had to be the main

contact for them and which was such a

fun experience honestly I remember I was

just in George's Park I was put in

Hilton and all expenses paid I was

eating with them all the time I get to

know their stuff their coaches their

medical team it was honestly the best

experience ever I was still in touch

with them and you know such great people

and I had honestly blast and I remember

then because I got this experience that

wasn't paid it was just like a voluntary

thing I also kept in touch with the one

who actually hired hired let me do the

thing and then when I need when I needed

to interview people for my dissertation

in my footage er that was really easy

because I just I just messaged her and

then I could you know interview a few

people from the FA as well so another

thing for me is to think just because

it's not paid it doesn't mean that it's

not worth it just because for me it was

you know being a liaison

something that I never thought I would I

would do because I wanted to get into

law and sponsorships and that side of

the you know football business just

because it's not what you want to do in

the future it doesn't mean that you

shouldn't be doing this because I put it

on my CV and I remember you know later

on when I was going to interview some

stuff people actually thought hmmm wait

a sec this girl she's actually diverse

you know she can do this she can do that

she can speak French she did this she

wanted on her own son Jorge's part she

coordinated between English FA and

French effects and another thing for me

is like if you go to do voluntary things

and even if it's a tiny bit one day ask

for the main contacts who hired you who

gave you this opportunity and add them

on LinkedIn say thank you message by the

end of it thank you so no it's just

honestly a few words I was like I'll

hide someone should check in say I thank

you so much for um you know giving me

the opportunity to to learn and to help

you throughout this whole process and

just keep them there because even though

they find never offer you a job

after work you know you might never see

them again to be honest uh if you need

references because you will need a lot

of references by the time you finish uni

uh they're gonna be there for you cuz

they'll remember you they're gonna

remember all that's a nice person who

send me that follow-up note um and she

was right and they're gonna you know be

happy to help use what for me the main

thing that I wanted to share with you

guys today is honestly don't expect too

much University is your time to shine

but your time to enjoy it and your time

to figure out what you want and don't do

this you know don't just look at

straight ahead you have to look

everywhere you know you have to look

everywhere I if if you want to do

marketing that's great but if you don't

get marketing work experience Julia's on

you know what I did is I thank Lee as

well I'm feeling as though do whatever

you can even the tiniest thing and if

you don't get paid for it don't worry

about it if you hate it you want never

have to do it again

make a list of all the stadiums in the

UK or wherever you're studying I close

by have a look at the conferences are

being held there is it sports Pro media

is this I think sports pro sports for a

life that's that's the name of the

conference is it this is a hell there

because I know it's held at Wembley at

Twickenham think about the games you

know get involved in hospitality you

might be pouring pints but if you're

good at it they might say ok pour points

and a VIP area that's another thing I

forgot to tell you I also do hospitality

I was a hostess for Arsenal and you know

the amount of famous people that you

meet there if you're on the VIP areas

it's just crazy

obviously you can't ask them or anything

cuz you work there but because you work

there and you're out of every game they

tend to like know your face since there

were so many times when I was working

there and people like oh hi it's you

again you know so they're nice and it's

all about building those contacts it's

all about getting out of your comfort

zone and trying new things cuz I

remember I was so scared and I remember

I was so harsh on myself I was like I

just want to do long sponsorships and I

want to work for a football club that's

all along well I did get there in the

end that was my first job off to uni

it's exactly what I wanted but in order

to get there I had to do tiny little

bits and ties the purpose of this video

to let you know that in order to get

here by the end of uni you need to do

tiny little things thank you so much for

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