Vivian Summers Leads Off Eagles in Transition/Life Beyond Sport Career Speaker Series
11/12/2020 3:53:00 PM | APEX
The next session will be held Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. via Zoom.
STATESBORO – Vivian Summers, Vice President of Summertime Enterprises, Inc., led off the Eagles in Transition/Life Beyond Sport program Career Speaker Series Tuesday night on Zoom.
Summertime Enterprises, Inc., is a logistics and real estate investment company that Summers owns with her husband, and she spoke to the Georgia Southern women's basketball team as well as some other Eagle student-athletes about entrepreneurship, her path to her chosen career and the skill set required to be a successful business owner. Summers graduated from South Carolina State in 1988 with a degree in marketing and spent time as a buyer at Belk in Augusta and a production buyer at Briggs & Stratton and Great Dane Trailers in Statesboro.
Through a partnership with the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, student-athletes from each athletics program will choose a topic and date for their speaker, and the Eagles in Transition program will coordinate a 45-minute meeting via Zoom with a professional in the chosen career through its Eagle Outreach Program. Speakers will talk about the process to obtain a career in their field and the necessary skill set required to excel.
The next career speaker event will be November 18 at 7 p.m. featuring:
Track and Field - Marketing and Sales
Baseball - Banking and Finance
Examples of careers on the docket to be presented are Banking/Finance, Real Estate, Marketing/Sales, Criminal Justice, Entrepreneurship, Business/Corporate America, Accounting and Construction.
The Career Speaker series is another component of the EIT programming curriculum designed to help prepare our student athletes for the ultimate challenge after the playing careers- LIFE.
Summertime Enterprises, Inc., is a logistics and real estate investment company that Summers owns with her husband, and she spoke to the Georgia Southern women's basketball team as well as some other Eagle student-athletes about entrepreneurship, her path to her chosen career and the skill set required to be a successful business owner. Summers graduated from South Carolina State in 1988 with a degree in marketing and spent time as a buyer at Belk in Augusta and a production buyer at Briggs & Stratton and Great Dane Trailers in Statesboro.
Through a partnership with the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, student-athletes from each athletics program will choose a topic and date for their speaker, and the Eagles in Transition program will coordinate a 45-minute meeting via Zoom with a professional in the chosen career through its Eagle Outreach Program. Speakers will talk about the process to obtain a career in their field and the necessary skill set required to excel.
The next career speaker event will be November 18 at 7 p.m. featuring:
Track and Field - Marketing and Sales
Baseball - Banking and Finance
Examples of careers on the docket to be presented are Banking/Finance, Real Estate, Marketing/Sales, Criminal Justice, Entrepreneurship, Business/Corporate America, Accounting and Construction.
The Career Speaker series is another component of the EIT programming curriculum designed to help prepare our student athletes for the ultimate challenge after the playing careers- LIFE.
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