Career Enhancing

Living overseas is also a great opportunity to gain experience in a wide range of areas all of which will enhance your CV.  Many Sport Lived participants have used their spare time to undertake voluntary work experience in a field they are planning to pursue.  Generally, your antipodean hosts are a very welcoming bunch and past participants have worked in hospitals, engineering companies and law firms.  Although most of this work is unpaid, it demonstrates commitment, initiative and is likely to be looked upon very favourably by employers and universities.

There are many other opportunities to augment your sporting placement with highly valuable life experiences.  Sport Lived can put you in touch with local charities where you can undertake voluntary work.  There are also numerous opportunities around your sports clubs to gain experiences such as captaining a team or taking on a role such as social secretary.  You can help out with junior teams, running coaching sessions or helping to umpire or coordinate matches.  All of these extra curricular activities help develop leadership and organisational skills as well as making your programme more fulfilling.

“I think coaching in Australia was a great experience and I have learnt a lot of skills for the future. I think the job will look great on a CV to future employers. I think it is such a great way to see a country and meet new people.”

Louisa Gilbert, Tennis Coach, Melbourne 2007