{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F85393166-5fb4-4618-bf55-f3f5348484e2","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Dasmine Evans: Handling The Stress of Getting Hired in Sports \u2013 Work in Sports Podcast e100\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/85393166-5fb4-4618-bf55-f3f5348484e2\"></iframe>","title":"Dasmine Evans: Handling The Stress of Getting Hired in Sports \u2013 Work in Sports Podcast e100","description":"Hey everybody, I\u2019m Brian Clapp Director of Content for WorkinSports.com and this is the Work in Sports podcast.I\u2019ll admit, over the 9 months and 99 episodes of this podcast I\u2019ve been a hound for titles. I\u2019ve wanted all of my guests to be people from the big leagues, the big brands and holders of big titles\u00a0 \u2013 VP of an MLB team, Director of an NFL team, Agent to Baker Mayfield --- I wanted to grab the movers and shakers in the industry to share big knowledge and big experience.<a href=\"https://www.workinsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/eps41_cover.png\"></a>I have loved it. I\u2019m a sucker for these conversations and peeling back the layers of each individual journey. There is so much you can learn from someone once you start talking, stuff that isn\u2019t on their resume or social media profile. The truth about them and their experience.What I haven\u2019t done enough of, is talk to the people on the beginning of their industry curve. A view of the climb up the ladder, rather than from the perch atop it.So this week we are having a very different conversation, sharing a very different perspective.<a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/dasmineevans/\">Dasmine Evans</a> is a recent graduate of Florida State University where she earned her degree in sports management. She conducted internships with major sports leagues and brands, volunteered, built her personal brand\u2026but getting hired in sports hasn\u2019t been easy.As she put it in her recent article on LinkedIn titled 1<a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-things-know-working-sports-before-you-graduate-dasmine-evans/\">0 things to know about working in sports before you graduate</a>, \u201cLet me tell you, grab a bottle of wine because the stress is real.\u201dThe line made me laugh, but the article as a whole was a raw, honest, interpretation of the struggle to find work in the sports industry. It\u2019s not as easy as \u201cget degree, get dream job\u201d it\u2019s a journey of peaks and valleys, and to be honest at the start it\u2019s often more valleys than peaks.\u00a0The thing I have always promised to you on this show is that I will speak honestly about the industry I love and have worked in for over 20 years. I will not sugar coat the story. I will not say every day is a dream with kettle corn and rainbows.We will talk about the industry in a real, unfiltered manner, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing today with Dasmine Evans, so let\u2019s get to it:Questions for Dasmine Evans:1: You wrote a very timely article this week that you<a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-things-know-working-sports-before-you-graduate-dasmine-evans/\"> published on LinkedIn</a> \u2013 it\u2019s graduation season and thousands of young adults are entering the workforce, or at least trying. Your article, titled 10 things to know about working in sports before you graduate is a raw honest informative piece about your journey after graduating with a sports management degree from Florida State.So let\u2019s start at the beginning \u2013 when you were in your senior year of school, approaching graduation and the impending doom of real life \u2013 what did you think it was going to be like?2: Ok, so what was the reality of your experience?3: It sounds like you had a pretty great resume too \u2013 lots of internships, volunteer work, a great degree from a great school. Looking back what do you think was going wrong?4: Let\u2019s work through some of the points you make in your article \u2013 the first one is \u201cyou don\u2019t have to major in sports management to work in sports\u201d \u2013 if you had to go back and do it again would you have gone a different direction with you major, and if so why?\u2013spoiler alert, I didn\u2019t not major in sports management. Now, that could be because I\u2019m old and they didn\u2019t have sports management programs back in the 90\u2019s\u2026\u00a05: Your next point is a big one, and one I try to drill into people\u2019s heads all the time \u2013 Professional Teams aren\u2019t the only place to work in sports! \u2013 I actually got into an argument with Mark Cuban a few years ago,","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/0fe2cca0-dbec-4a84-aad5-f3a6b515f3c9/wisipod-300x300.png"}