I need help!!!

[Jazza]

Gday everyone.

As some of you may know I'm a big sports fanatic!

I am currently unemployed and today I attended an open day at Macleay College in Sydney to do a Sports Management and Marketing course.

I already have a Diploma in Business Management (Yet still can't get a job! :unamused: ) so if I do the course there will be some exemptions for me in some subjects.

I would like to do the course so that I can gain employment at a sporting organisation however the cost to do the course is 22k which has left me in a situation of weighing up the cost with the benefits.

The course doesn't start until next year so in the meantime I will still look for employment and obviously if I do find fulltime work before then, then I wont do the course until later on.

I am just wondering if there is anyone out there who has gone to Macleay college or done a sports management course or is currently employed at a sporting organisation, what advice you have, are there many opportunities available in these fields, etc.

Any info would be well appreciated, thanks!

 

[steven_tiger]

Sorry to say mate but if you are up for a job against another bloke with a degree, the bloke with the degree will win out 99% of the time.

I did a Bachelor of Sports Media at the Uni of Canberra. It opened lots of doors, and many of my friends have great jobs as a result (ABC, Canberra Times, Touch Australia etc). A know people that did the sports management degree too, and they are doing well.

If you are going for a career (that isn't a trade) I think a uni degree is the way to go.

 

[Red_Rugby]

Jazza

Don't waste your time with a diploma.

One of my best mates is the main man at Sky Sports. I caught up with him a couple of weeks ago when he happened to be recruiting. The calibre of the applicants was amazing and they all had degrees, if not double degrees. They had short-listed from more than 200 applicants and the job wasn't even advertised, it was simply a word of mouth thing.

Macquarie Uni would be my recommendation, but I understand that its pretty difficult to be accepted into the course.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Hope it all works out for you.

 

[Jazza]

Thanks for the advice guys.

Its funny how things turn out, I just got myself a fulltime job, its as a trainee manager, its not sports related but I dont mind.

Its on a trial basis at the moment, so I guess for now, unless I fail the trial period, I wont be doing this sports management course!

 

[Suzie-Q]

Good for you Jazza. Congrats on the job!

 

[steven_tiger]

Congrats Jazza. Hope it all works out for you.