Recreation and Sports Man.

leixy

Guys has anyone done this course or are doing it??
I've heard u can go on and do physio or pe teaching after it is this true?? Replies would be welcomed

kob29

You cant do physio, unless by some miracle you managed to talk your way into a postgrad in the UK. As for PE, you'd have to the PE PGCE postgrad in the UK too for one year. You cant get into the postgrad in UL with it because its not recognised for teaching PE here by the teaching council. You can apply for the HDip in Business teaching though although thats fairly hard to get into now. Its a good broad course though- like everything its what you make of it, nothing guaranteed at the end.
If you want to do PE do Health & Leisure in Tralee IT. For Physio do Physiology and Health Science in Carlow IT.

leixy

Kob29, have you done this course?
If so what are you hoping to do after you complete the course.. just so i can gain some insight.
would you recommend it?
do you know if you could go on to do sports rehab in carlow at level8 after the course?

Newaglish

Ah rec man - the navy tracksuited horde

If you're lucky, you can

a) get a job as a receptionist in a gym

or

b) get into another course afterwards

leixy

ive this on my cao, and this isnt what i want to hear.. anyone shed some positives about careers after this course??? anyone actually doing it?

bp_me

leixy wrote: »

ive this on my cao, and this isnt what i want to hear.. anyone shed some positives about careers after this course??? anyone actually doing it?

My understanding was that careers from this course weren't particularly plentiful in Ireland, but give the careers centre a call and someone there will talk through it with you (Keep trying, they are in and out a lot at the moment).


http://www2.wit.ie/CareersCentre/ContactUs/

kob29

I did the course and graduated over 5 years ago. Since them i've worked as a gym instructor, a sports development officer and currently lecture having done a masters in a related area since elsewhere.

In the past few years there have been LOADS of sports development officer jobs advertised with the local authorities and governing bodies. You can also go on to specialise in personal training, health club management or do postgrads in several things. So no you wont be stuck as a leisure centre receptionist unless you're lazy and unambitious and expect good jobs to fall into your lap.

You will almost certainly not get into the level 8 in carlow with this, Carlow is a science based course, recman has a business/humanities base. This is not to say that you cant do other courses afterwards in sports injuries. You will learn a lot of stuff relevant to that too. I know several people have went to the UK to do a one year postgrad in PE teaching too.

So all in all I wouldnt have any regrets about applying for recman, its an extremely broad course, its just a matter of what you do with what you put in and get out of it. Get yourself good work placements and all the experience an additional qualifications you can and if by the end of it you decide that the sports industry is not for you then you have a good business degree to let you look elsewhere.

Newaglish

kob29 wrote: »

I did the course and graduated over 5 years ago. Since them i've worked as a gym instructor, a sports development officer and currently lecture having done a masters in a related area since elsewhere.

In the past few years there have been LOADS of sports development officer jobs advertised with the local authorities and governing bodies. You can also go on to specialise in personal training, health club management or do postgrads in several things. So no you wont be stuck as a leisure centre receptionist unless you're lazy and unambitious and expect good jobs to fall into your lap.

You will almost certainly not get into the level 8 in carlow with this, Carlow is a science based course, recman has a business/humanities base. This is not to say that you cant do other courses afterwards in sports injuries. You will learn a lot of stuff relevant to that too. I know several people have went to the UK to do a one year postgrad in PE teaching too.

So all in all I wouldnt have any regrets about applying for recman, its an extremely broad course, its just a matter of what you do with what you put in and get out of it. Get yourself good work placements and all the experience an additional qualifications you can and if by the end of it you decide that the sports industry is not for you then you have a good business degree to let you look elsewhere.

Hi Kob,

Just a couple of questions:

1) What grade degree did you get
2) How long did it take you to get a job after your graduated
3) What kind of job was it exactly
4) How much were you earning in your first position (if you don't mind the question)

Just interested to know as nobody I know doing that course got a good job out of it, though most of them wouldn't have had a 1.1 or good work experience behind them.

kob29

1) What grade degree did you get
- Got a 2.2
2) How long did it take you to get a job after your graduated
- Finished my exams in May, got offered 2 jobs in the same day in September (i didnt really start job hunting in earnest till August)
3) What kind of job was it exactly
- Fitness instructor in hotel leisure centre
4) How much were you earning in your first position (if you don't mind the question)
- £18/19000.


If you dont mind me asking, when you say none got "good jobs" out of it, what do you consider a good job?

Hate to burst peoples bubbles about life as a new graduate, but you rarely walk into positions that will pay a mortgage and/or 3 foreign holidays a year and a shopping habit!!
I got a fulltime job, not a million miles from home, could comfortably afford my first car and get some savings together and some additional training courses.
Its called a career LADDER for a reason, you start at the bottom and work upwards and likewise does your pay scale. Also there were far less variety of jobs in the area advertised then too.
Its all about experience at that stage and making the most of it to be in a position to compete for the next step up the ladder when the chance comes.

I think there are a lot of cubs of the celtic tiger coming out of secondary school and college that are in for one major shock in the current jobs market.

Ferris_Bueller

Bump

Have this down on my CAO, but considering moving it up a bit higher. Anyone else have any comments to make on this course who have done it or are currently doing it? Would love to get a job as a sports developement officer or something along the lines, basically would love to work in a sporting environment when out of college, would this course be a good choice?

Also, on a seperate note, I live in Kildare so would have to move, what is the area like to live in? People/Nightlife/Activities etc