Symposium Speaker
Saturday, October 9th, 2010 | Assignments for TLEP 4830
Among speakers that the homecoming symposium I chose to go to see Kathryn Bobel, because I was interested in also working in the sports industry. She is currently the Co-Director of Group Sales for the Hickory Crawdads, in Hickory, North Carolina. The Crawdads, a minor league baseball team, are a baseball Class A affiliate of the Texas Rangers. Kathryn’s presentation was all about her personal experiences with the team, since she has been with them for two years, how she landed the position, and how to act during an interview.
The most important thing I learned from listening to Ms. Bobel’s speech was that in the end, everything will work out alright. She spoke about how in college she was very stressed and always worrying about the future. When she said all that I understood how she felt because I too often worry about the future and worry about not succeeding. She told us about great organizations to get involved with in order to further our careers in sports, companies to contact, and job fairs to attend, all in hopes to help us out in the future.
It was also interesting to hear her tell us about possible internship opportunities we could have with her, since she is currently in charge of hiring all the interns. I have already emailed her my resume and hope to here from her soon about the possible internship for this upcoming summer. Over all, I learned a great deal more form the speaking symposium than I ever would have thought.