If you have a deep interest in sports, it is not at all essential that you are supposed to keep it on the inside track. You can stay connected even with the activities concerning your favourite sport and simultaneously get to handle the administrative and managerial part of it. Career in sports, found its way long back in the West, but in India, it is yet to prosper.
Work Profile:
You can choose to be a coach, a professional player, a physical education instructor, a referee or an umpire. If you have a passion for writing, you can even be a sports journalist. Even the specialised area of sports and marketing is gaining immense popularity these days.
- Sports managers and agents- Today, all well-known and successful sportspersons have their own personal agents or managers. Being a sports manager or an agent requires keeping a record of your clients’ schedule, their business promotion, career progression and even public and media relations. You are supposed to take care even of their administrative affairs such as finance, budgeting and other logistics.
- Sports administrators- In order to manage work at multiple levels, qualified officials are employed by various govt. sponsored and private sports institutions. Basic responsibility here would be the time to time planning and management of sports events and activities.
- Leisure and sport-club management- These days almost all the resorts, hotels and clubs boast of sports facilities and leisure centres. Here, you’d be supposed to manage accounts, prepare timetables and schedules and handle other administrative work as well.
Eligibility:
To take up Sports Management Postgraduate Diploma course, one must be a graduate in any stream from a well recognised university. Taking up courses in administration or business can be of great help as well.
Visit www.mipsedu.in for more details.
