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Career Guide: Sports Agent

Career Guide: Sports Agent

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  • About the Editor
    • Guide on key educational steps toward the career.
    • Explores how to be a successful sports agent.
    • Highlights career opportunities in the sports industry.

Sports agents secure contracts and negotiate salaries with sports teams on behalf of individual athletes. They find endorsement deals for their clients and advise them on career and financial matters. In the highly competitive world of representing professional athletes, sports agents must often travel to meet with clients or other business people and work on holidays and weekends. Many agents once were athletes themselves or have had personal experience working with athletes in some other capacity. While it is not impossible to work independently, most agents work for large international agencies because clients tend to prefer companies rather than solo agents to represent them. Although the vast majority of sports agents are male, there are slowly more females entering the profession, particularly in the representation of female athletes. Sports agents handle financial and legal matters for their professional athlete clients. Some of their duties include negotiating salaries and securing contracts. A love of sports coupled with a legal or accounting background make the ideal combination for this career.


About the Guide


This Career Guide provides guidance to people facing a variety of career challenges. These challenges may include dealing with redundancy, seeking a new job, changing careers, returning to work after a career break, building new skills, personal and professional development, going for promotion, and setting up a business. The common aim of the career guide, whatever the particular situation of the individual being guided, is normally to help that individual gain control of their career and, to some extent, their life. This comprehensive resource has been developed to provide you with a road map for your particular area of interest to shape the career as a Sports Agent. Whether you are looking for that entry-level position, growing in your respective field, or making a career transition, the means to accomplish your goals are within this resource. The Career Guide looks at what a sports agent is, the roles and responsibilities they carry out and the essential qualities needed to succeed.