CRG assists highly competitive individuals in making a successful transition into their professional careers. Our staff has experienced the demands of today's athlete, walked in the corporate shoes of partner companies and been exposed to proper career development practices. The student-athlete career development program identifies 25 traits of an athlete that organizations often look for in potential employees.

Our commitment toward training and development provides assistance to organizations looking for unique way of helping their essential career development programming

• Athletes have a high demand on their time and compete on a year-round basis, which can restrict their opportunities to utilize their available resources. The campus visits that CRG has conducted over the past seven plus years has shown that a small percentage of student-athletes effectively use the career services offices
  


• Not all organizations have personnel that fully understand the uniqueness of the athletes and their special needs. CRG provides their expertise and become the bridge between the athletes and the career services offices.
  
  
• As an outside source directly connected to the marketplace, CRG can provide open and frank dialogue with athletes and can sometimes be more challenging in our presentation style.
  
  
• CRG has worked with highly competitive individuals and athletes from schools at all levels of the NCAA (Division I, II, and III) and NAIA as well as professional organizations such as the NBA, WBNA, NBA Development League and teams of the NFL.
  

WHY CRG?

For Athletic Departments:

• Enhances institutions CHAMPS/Life Skills Programs.
  
  
• Promotes professional development opportunities for student-athletes in their spare time.
  
  
• Helps student-athletes identify and utilize their on-campus career services center and increases the confidence of student-athletes in attending career fairs, symposiums and related events hosted by the institution.
  
  
• Encourages administrators, coaches and faculty athletic representatives to share their post-college transitional experience with current student-athletes.
  
  
• Enables athletic departments to display an involvement in post graduate success and career placement rates of former athletes just as focus is shown toward graduation rates of current athletes.
  
  
• Provides an additional networking source for members within athletic alumni associations.
  
  
• Delivers a unique presentation style with open and frank dialogue to student-athletes that is sometimes more challenging to them than usual content.
  

For Student-Athletes

• One-on-one coaching sessions help with evaluating the individual needs and personal interaction for each student-athlete.
  
  
• Introduces a networking and what sources are available among current student-athletes while they are still in school.
  
  
• Helps prepare for life after college athletics with resume preparation, interview critiquing and career coaching.
  
  
• Demonstrates the traits of an athlete and delivery in the interview process.
  
  
• Touches on the importance of having a plan and differentiating one's self throughout the college experience.
  
  
• Maximizes telephone and in-person interviewing skills that employers look for.
  
  
• Teaches how to succeed in personal preparation for an interview process.
  
  
• Provides immediate access to job opportunities from business clients
  
  
• Useful career development material provided to individuals of all majors and career aspirations.