The options available to you here are huge and too numerous for us to go into in this resource, instead we felt it better to share some information for you to think about. This we hope helps you in ensuring, that what you end up doing, and where, is the best fit for you.
Instead we felt it better to share some information for you to consider to hopefully help you in ensuring that what you end up doing and where is the best fit for you.
There is a lot of information on this page so please either scroll down and read on to find out more or click on each of the sub headings below to link to that point on the page.
- Sport/Life balance
- Future career direction and what’s important to you
- How much do you need to earn
- Your CV and personal presentation
- Flexible working arrangements
- The Armed Services
- Apprenticeships
- Internships
- Part time work
- What you end up doing and where is the best fit for you.
Watch and Listen - Case Studies in this section are:
- Jodie Stimpson talks about her experiences balancing triathlon and a full time job
- Kat Rye talks about a career in the Army and being on their Elite Athlete Programme (Armed Services page)
- Lucy Nell talks about a career in the RAF and being on their Elite Athlete Programme (Armed Services page)
Sport/Life Balance
Taking some time to consider where you sit on this continuum we believe will certainly help here in your sport/work prioritisation balance. Some questions to think about at this point could be;
- What is most important to you?
- Do you want a job that fits around Triathlon or do you want to fit Triathlon around your job?
- Or are both of similar importance?
Future Career Direction and what’s important to you
How much you need to earn
Your CV and personal presentation
Flexible working arrangements
The Armed Services
Apprenticeships
Internships
Part time work
Also be aware that the internet is not always the best resource for finding local part time work, looking around in the local area e.g. in shop windows, super market notice boards and in café’s etc along with visiting your local Job Centre might prove as, if not more, effective.
Find out more
There are hundreds of websites in this area and we cant list or link them all but have detailed below some that we thought looked to be helpful and/or interesting.
icould.com
This is a great resource that uses the power of personal stories to inform and inspire young people’s career choices and is popular in schools. They have over 1000 interviews with people in all sorts of jobs that are linked to hard data e.g. salary, qualifications, etc.
Check out their
- explore page here
- buzz test - a simple personality test that might support you learning more about yourself and others here
Not Going to Uni
Is the UK’s leading resource for school leavers who do not want to follow the university route. You can use the site to search over 4,000 job opportunities, read through case studies and follow them on various platforms for constant update and info.
My World of Work
Helps you discover what career might suit you by looking at your ambitions, skills, experiences, interests and education. Their leaving school this summer will give you lots of information on what your options could be.
The National Careers Service
A government run website that offers information, advice and guidance to help you make decisions on learning, training and work can be found here
Jobs
There are hundreds of recruitment websites that can easily googled. A couple less well known and more relevant, however, might be:
- The UK Sport website that lists jobs in sport
- Jobs.ac.uk which is the leading higher education recruitment site and perhaps useful if you are looking for work and going to base yourself at a training centre.
Internships and Work Experience
Fair Train are the UK’s leading work experience website
The Prince’s Trust help a lot of young people get work experience and/or internships