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UNO Partners with Career Athletes

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UNO Partners with Career Athletes

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OMAHA, Neb. – The University of Nebraska at Omaha Athletic Department has partnered with Career Athletes, a service that provides internships and job opportunities to current student-athletes to aid them in their job search following graduation.  Current and former UNO student-athletes can sign up on-line and connect with businesses looking for employees and individuals who serve as mentors for the job-seeking athletes.

“During our student-athletes' time on campus, UNO's coaches and staff spend countless hours preparing them to succeed in the classroom and on the playing field,” said #Trev Alberts#, UNO's Director of Athletics.  “It was a logical and important step for us to further that commitment to our students by helping them succeed after graduation.  This partnership with Career Athletes will help us do just that.”

During the past 10 years, Career Athletes has conducted more than 800 training and development seminars at universities throughout the country providing much needed career education for more than 250,000 student-athletes. In addition to their proprietary training and development seminars, Career Athletes builds and maintains customized career networking web sites for individual university athletic departments providing additional career education, mentors, access to career opportunities and potential employers upon graduation, and a platform to connect with athletic alumni who are encouraged to join the network as mentors and/or job seekers.

“It's obvious that the administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha cares about its student-athletes beyond their playing days and graduation, and we are excited to be partnered with such an outstanding institution,” said Chris Smith CEO and President of Career Athletes. “Due to the demanding nature of collegiate athletics, these athletes face a unique set of challenges regarding career development not typically experienced by the general student-body. The current economic environment will provide even greater challenges for today's student-athletes to overcome, making career development more important than ever.”

Student athletes can access the Career Athletes section of omavs.com through the Life Skills page.

About Career Athletes, LLC:
Career Athletes is the leading provider of a wide range of dedicated career development services and software within collegiate athletics. Since the inception of our roots back in 1998-to-date, athletes in every sport, from over 1,200 individual colleges and universities nationwide, have utilized Career Athletes as a valuable tool in their transition from athletics to the workplace.

Career Athletes possesses the largest member based community of current/alumni student-athletes, representing a growing legion of athletes, athletic departments and hundreds of national, regional and local employers. Today, our on-campus training and development seminars to student-athletes are the most relied upon in the nation, with over 800 seminars conducted and over 250,000 student-athletes educated on-campus within college athletic departments at the NCAA, NAIA and Junior Colleges level.

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