How to get your first full-time role in sport with Hayley Gorman
Learn how she landed a role with UniSport Australia, and the skills she needed to do so
Reuben Williams
May 06, 2024
Hello friends! 👋
Welcome to the SportsGrad Podcast: The ultimate guide to make it in the sports industry!
Each week we share how people made it in sports and tease out their career decisions, work habits, skills, and everything they do that makes them great.
All so you can learn how to get in, get promoted, and get thriving in the sports industry.
Meet Hayley Gorman, the Workforce Coordinator at UniSport Australia, and one of our beloved SportsGrad Members!
We met Hayley last year in October when she joined the Community, and was working part-time for the Bicycle Network. Since then, she’s gone to land her first full-time role, as well as become a super active and well-known member within SportsGrad.
Lots to look out for including how to land your first full-time job in sport, tips to improve your networking and leadership skills, what it’s like moving interstate for a job, and how being a SportsGrad Member has helped her career.
Enjoy this episode!
In this episode we cover:
(00:39) Who is Hayley Gorman?
(01:37) Welcome to the SportsGrad Podcast! Here’s what’s going on in the Community…
(03:59) Welcome Hayley!
(05:28) Quick-fire questions
(08:48) What does Hayley do at UniSport Australia as the Workforce Coordinator?
(12:37) The roles Hayley had before her first full-time role in sport '
(14:42) How does Hayley balance FT work and travel/fun
(18:21) How did the application at UniSport work and how did Hayley stand out?
(20:01) Why did Hayley become a SportsGrad Member?
(23:30) How Hayley has found confidence within herself
(27:28) What are the skills most important in people-facing roles, and how does Hayley practice them?
(29:59) How Hayley decided to make the move interstate and tips she has if you’re thinking of doing the same
(32:42) When has Hayley utilised her network in sport?
(36:33) What is something Hayley wishes she could tell her first year of uni self?
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