why #startup is worth talking about for sports related university degree subjects
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presentation to students studying sports-related degrees at the University of Salford in October 2014 to support them begin to explore options and opportunities of self-employment and enterprise start-up as a routes into employment and careers following their graduationsTRANSCRIPT
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Why #startup is worth thinking about...
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• What do you want to do with your qualification?
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• Jobs market?
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• Pick your own working hours
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• More freedom to try out your ideas
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Research says:
• One of sectors in which graduate start-ups most prevalent = sport
• Within 3 years of graduation, 7% of all students are self-employed
• Self-employed report better work/life balance
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• Less free time...
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• Less of steady income
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• No-one to offer you holiday or sick-pay
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Secret checklist
• Stick to your guns (don’t keep changing your mind about things)
• Able to see things through (to the bitter end...)• Talk to strangers (aka networking)• Be like Derren Brown (influence people)• Cope with pressure• Able to take risks• OK with your own company...• Not a procrastinator
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What the University can offer:
• Bootcamps• Academy sessions• 1-2-1 advisors• (sometimes) grants• ...?
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(some of) the references...
• http://www.prospects.ac.uk/self_employment_is_self_employment_right_for_you.htm
• http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/selfemployment.htm