Career Research Report: Sports and Leisure Industry for Graduates

This career research report investigates the sports and leisure industry, providing a comprehensive analysis of its current trends, required skills, and employment opportunities for graduates. The report begins with an introduction highlighting the industry's growth potential and its appeal to recent graduates. It then delves into an analysis of general trends, such as the increasing popularity of sports and leisure activities, and the impact of globalization. The report also examines the skills and knowledge necessary for success in the industry, including communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills. Primary and secondary research methods, including interviews with industry professionals and a review of relevant literature, are used to gather information. The report concludes with a summary of findings and a discussion of potential career paths, including self-employment opportunities and managerial positions. The report emphasizes the importance of continuous skill development and adaptability in the dynamic sports and leisure sector.

Career research report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Analysis and application..................................................................................................................3
General trends which will impact on..........................................................................................3
your chosen profession/industry: ..............................................................................................3
Skills/knowledge and experience................................................................................................4
required......................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Career research is the vital concept, in which focus is being on giving guidance to an
employee for choosing out right career. This is an essential aspects, in which focus is being given
to developing scope and long term career opportunity for an individual. The aim of this report is
to identify area of employment for graduate in the sports or leisure (Malin and et. al., 2017). It is
one of the fastest growth industry, whose purpose is to give support of sport to play. In this,
person will start its own and self business after being left out an university. By this, I am
expecting to get current knowledge and application of an industry/profession which will be
pursued by me after left out from college. Also, sport and leisure industry is currently a trendy
industry and growth is expected for longer time.
Analysis and application
In this section, not detailed but brief emphasis will be given for doing primary as well as
secondary is being considered to led clear and cut outcomes. After leaving university, if a person
is looking for employment in any sector, first of all he/she is need to be identify appropriate
industry/profession, a person is wishes to pursues and his interest lies in that particular area. As,
recent graduate is most likes to pursue employment in the sports & leisure industry. Hence, first
general trends or concept prevailing within industry and second, an analysis of the expectancy of
either employment and self work (Veal, 2017). For this, primary and secondary research is the
suitable option to ascertain information on what other people thinks about particular
industry/profession and what are their point of view. It is expected to pursues analysis of general
trends that would impact on preferred industry and skills & exposure required to be in that
particular industry. The detailed discussion is as follows:
General trends which will impact on your chosen profession/industry:
In analysis, both primary & secondary research will be undertaken, in which analysis of a
current market of the UK deals in the sport equipment is quite high and transformation of the
industry is giving job opportunities to other person. In sports or leisure, changes such as free and
sports campaign to play any sport and person can earn revenue out of it. In sport sector, graduate
person can pursue his own making of sports tools and equipment which is required to play games
such as cricket, football and tennis etc. (Sahin and et. al., 2015). In the sports & leisure industry,
various firm such as Globe sports and Decathlon has recently entered in UK and they has started

giving opportunity to the youth of this nation to pursues their passion of sports. This is positive
response for graduate people to give them scope for their development and choosing career for
longer career (CAREERS IN SPORTS, 2019). It is necessary for an individual to identify what
level of skills or competencies is being required to pursues employment in the sports or leisure
sector. In the sports & leisure sector, consistency of an individual is required in which focus is
being on their performance and ability to be work in this sector (Wolfson and et. al., 2017). In
this sector, role of globalisation such as entering of the sports firms such as globe sports and
decathlon has comes up with an initiatives in which employment is to be offers to graduate
people along with taking actions to makes out correct decision making.
In context of the primary researcher, information has been acquired from people who are
already working in similar sector and they are doing much far better in their respective task or
goals. There experiences and knowledge has shown that graduate person is need to developing
its own skill and knowledge. Also, while doing their observation of what they are doing, their
own work exposure and data/information related to industry attraction. Along with primary
research, secondary data is collected taking use of an internet, magazine, books and article,
which is reality says sport sector is contributing growth to this nation and also contributes to
GDP of this nation. For interview, executive person of the Globe sport has been interviewed and
discussion has been led on status and condition of this industry. Through positive response of the
person, it is revealed that, sports & leisure industry is doing at its top level.
In the sports & leisure, changes such as use of an excess technology, resource allocation,
role of the human resource which is necessary to built this industry on an optimised stage or
goal. The people with whom, interview has been taken and that executives has share its positive
view or opinion to join this industry which is a good call me (Edwards and Roy, 2017). Sports &
leisure mainly deals with offering sport services such as offering sports running campaign to do
charity work along with welfare work through this initiatives. Using sport & leisure as career is
suitable for those who used to do it as its own passion or interest.
Skills/knowledge and experience required
Skill and knowledge is the vital pre-requisites for every person, whose purpose is to grow
in an own career and choosing the right career to work. This was realised that skill or knowledge
are mainly common for every industry or may be differs at some context. Skill such as related to
the communication, interpersonal or people management, so as to run self campaign in sports or

leisure field. Using of the primary research, it is identified that, several skill such as problem
solving, conflict management, people engagement is necessary to work in this sector effectively
and consistently (McIlveen and Perera, 2016). Assessment of skills and knowledge is need to be
do to check out at what stage, skill and competencies can be build to the top level. Personal skills
assessment is necessary to be undertaken to see and check out what skill or competencies is
suitable to pursues job roles or being any self employment in the sports or activities sector.
Assessment of the personal skill such as:
Personal skill Description
Communication This skill is an essential in which correct and right contact will be made
to creates contact and relationship with customer, dealer and supplier
within necessary aims to creates channel of an interaction.
Decision making In this skill, focus is to pursues rapid decision making to think or takes
action plan in dealing employment or work contingencies at one point of
time.
Analytical thinking This skill is required to takes assessment of self working and evaluates to
rise chances of productivity on an productive basis. The purpose behind
this makes person competent to takes its instant decision making.
People engagement The major aim is to engages people and so as to rise involving people
into the common employability activities.
Area of an expertise and knowledge: Being as part of sport or leisure industry, expertise
such as knowledge of the sport field, tools or techniques used and knowledge of people and
customer's engaged with this (Mattern and et. al., 2015). As this graduation has no expertise into
the field of the sports and thus, craze and passion is present. Graduate is need to be focus on
perfection of an expertises and increase knowledge to work in sector effectively as well as part of
its own career.
Evaluation
As a Graduation, my role is of sport leader in the Globe sport, because of I am passionate
of playing sport such as football, basketball etc. Due to this, passion under me, this has forced to

pursues career into the sports field. This is my choice and majorly it comes out of my own matter
of interest. I very much prefers job role of sport leader's as because of my continuous interest in
sports has been raised with increased in time period. This is an emerging role in sports sector, as
it will helps to empower me to run my own sports campaign. Also, this would be helpful for me
to ensure long term career sustainability or durability.
Job Advertisement
Globe Sport
Urgent Hiring
Looking for candidate for the managerial position with fresher/experienced and training
experience into the field of sports & leisure. Opportunity is highly immense and shows scope
for future development of the person. Job location will be UK and skills such as communication
and analytics are highly preferable to the work context.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that career research is one of the necessary step
which is mainly build to ascertain career for an individual so as to ensure persons growth and
takes care of what would be accomplishes in their respective career or life. The major purpose of
career researcher has been noticed to develops of the career opportunities for others and self to
work. Lastly, it is beneficial to be career researcher to develops career for longer stage.

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