People hire people they know, like and trust. Guess what, coaches are people, elite sports teams are run by people! If you want them to hire you as a strength coach, you need to build the kind of knowledge, skills, and experience that makes them chase YOU, not the other way around. And if you’re reading this, that’s not you right now.
If your experience is like mine, the problem is the very thing you spent all that time and money investing in to get hired in the first place: your degree and professional accreditation.
Respectfully, most degree programmes are taught by people who have never stood in a room with a world class athlete, let alone been paid to train one. Who would you rather learn from about how to get rich- an economics professor, or a self made millionaire?
Instead of working backwards from what elite coaches and athletes are doing to break records in the real world, degrees work forwards from studies and research papers that are already years behind best practice.
Instead of learning how to build your network, cultivate relationships, and sell yourself, you’re taught by colleges that the secret to career progression is in teaching a better power clean, or a few extra letters after your name. Big mistake.
Until you break out of the traditional model, every day you wait is a day that the competition is leaving you in their dust. Competition is huge. You need to act now and learn fast if you want to get ahead.
The sooner you do, the sooner you can escape the endless cycle of rejection, volunteering, internships and financial and professional hardship that plague our field.