<p>A company I work for is hiring. We came across a resume of a person who graduated from a state university last December. This young lady got a full ride there as a tennis player. She stresses in her resume that she was playing tennis competitevely during her entire college career.</p>
<p>The rest assured, I’m concerned about couple things actually. If she continues to actively pursue athletics while employed, it will definitely be a conflict of interests. This is a high pressure job, late hours and working on weekends is often necessary. </p>
<p>Also, I’m not sure if spending so many hours a week on sport activities at college took its toll on her studies.</p>
<p>I think if she was intending to pursue tennis competitively and professionally, she probably wouldn’t have applied for a full time job, as she would be training full time. I’ve always been told that athletes (especially in college) just get extremely good at managing their time, and if she’s qualified in all other aspects she’d probably be an asset. With such a high pressure job, it’s probably good for her to have tennis as a hobby that she’ll continue to enjoy in her spare time to take away the stress.</p>
<p>I agree that she probably isn’t intending to pursue the sport professionally. I am also a college athlete and the reason she stressed her tennis career was to show her time management skills and explain why other areas of her resume were probably lacking (clubs, etc). For example, my sport doesn’t allow me to participate in any clubs since we have workouts during the time that all the clubs meet.</p>
<p>I’m a tennis player who’s very familiar with college tennis. In general, it is very very rare that players who have at all potential to become successful pros first do college. Tennis is not like football or basketball; college is not the route to go to the top of the world rankings. Therefore if she played college tennis she probably was an excellent player but still not good enough to become a Top-400 player in the world. It’s tough out there! </p>
<p>She most likely knows this and is therefore ready to enter the workforce and leave her competitive tennis playing days behind her. Tennis, as any other college sport, requires immense amounts of discipline, commitment, and most of all, time management! If she’s got a solid GPA and relevant work experience, she’ll probably be a better employee than most!</p>
<p>Yeah…she’s trying to stress how good she is at time management and commitment, which could be a good thing since you’re saying here that the job is high pressure/late hours/working on weekends…that’s the type of thing she’s accustomed to.</p>
<p>It’s a totally different perspective; makes sense. We need a person to be available when something urgent comes up, ‘on-call’ kind of thing. Emergency management vs. time management, sort of. Again, appreciate your responses.</p>
<p>haha, that’s mean pkp20. But yes if an athlete is applying to a full time job, most likely it’s because they aren’t good enough to make the pros.</p>