[image-1]Keeping tabs on whether the Browns will eke out anything resembling a success this year, Deadspin checked in with the Browns Career Fair last week. In short: Let’s just say that no one’s rushing up the corporate ladder of the pro sports world anytime soon.
For $65 or $105, attendees received a ticket to the Steelers-Browns game on Sunday and admission to the fair, which was billed as a “unique opportunity to get to meet employers from NFL, NBA, MLB and MLB teams and other organizations in the sports industry, looking to fill various entry level jobs and internship positions.” (sic) The game alone was bummer enough, but it sounds like the career fair itself also sacked a fair amount of job-seekers. (Sorry about that one.)
Here’s Lindsey Adler with the deets:
Attendees told me that the event Saturday did not seem at all aligned with what was advertised, and those I spoke to—contacted individually, without connection to one another—expressed universal disappointment and frustration with the event.
Saturday’s participants were disappointed to find only a few teams with booths at the event, and were particularly dismayed by the absence of any representatives from the Cavs or Indians. Multiple attendees noted to me that most of the jobs appeared to be in ticket sales only. Teamworkonline.com, a partner for this career fair, lists only one open position with the Browns: an account executive for season ticket sales.
“Every single company I spoke with was only looking for ticket sales interns and that was it,” one event attendee reportedly told Adler. “They could not answer questions about anything else such as finance, marketing, or athletic training internships, which some people who attended were expecting to hear about. All they did was direct you to a website and told you to sign up for job alerts.”
Did you attend? Did your experience track with these reports? Should Cody Kessler have tried to score an internship there?
This article appears in Nov 23-29, 2016.
Deets? SERIOUSLY? WTF? Do you make that shit up, or what? Is this the Nerw York Daily News or TMZ now?
Sounds like this”Career” (yeah, right) Fair is just another scam to sell a few more tickets to a blowout…which is a skill that potential Browns ticket sales interns will actually need to know…how to fast-talk and bamboozle the suckers.
And these aren’t even REAL, ENTRY-LEVEL, SLAVE_WAGE McJobs, right? Doesn’t intern mean working for nothing to “get the experience” and another line on a resume? Sounds like your typical job fair…smoke and mirrors and blowing that same smoke up attendees’ asses.
My condolences to the chumps who fell for the charade…damn betcha they have a right to be pissed.
Chuckles the Clown
This is what most career fairs in sports are like. Most positions that aren’t entry level sales jobs are easily filled via online or referrals, so these career fairs are used as a tool to meet young people that are selling themselves in person as potential employees would be good fits in sales. The Cavs do the exact same thing. Go to Columbus or Pittsburgh and you’ll find the same.
ESPN’s Mike Golic gloatingly gave the formula on how to gain meaningful employment with a pro sports team. During a couple segments on Mike and Mike, he bragged about his daughter quickly going from college graduation to a job with the Browns. If your dad is a former pro football player with a national sports media job — that thin resume is pure gold. Everyone else…..get in the line for prospective ushers and ticker takers.