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Sports & entertainment careers | Play Your Career Hand™
You do not have a passion problem. You have a positioning problem.
Sports and entertainment hiring teams already know you love the industry. They need proof that you can solve a business problem inside it. I help you turn transferable experience, real results, and industry interest into a story worth betting on.
Talk to Rachel about my sports career20+ years in recruitingGoogle · Meta · TKO: UFC, WWE & PBR · Sports and entertainment hiring
The honest read
Being a fan gets you interested. Skills get you hired.
- You are applying to partnerships, marketing, events, operations, and anything else with a team logo on it.
- Your experience transfers, but your résumé makes the hiring team perform archaeology to see it.
- You are networking by asking strangers for jobs instead of building relationships people will put their name behind.
- You sound passionate in interviews, but the proof that you can do the work is getting buried.
- You keep chasing the biggest logo instead of the role that will give you ownership, reps, and a stronger next hand.
Real sports hiring-room experience
I know what changes when the logo on the building is famous.
Sports candidates keep running into the same questions: how to break through, build relationships without sounding transactional, translate experience from another industry, interview like a real person, and become someone a recruiter remembers for the right reasons.
I recruited across TKO’s UFC, WWE, and PBR brands. I know the difference between being excited to get into the building and showing why the business should trust you once you are there.
How I help
Pick a lane. Prove the fit. Build the relationships.
Translate the evidence
Make experience from sports or another industry feel relevant without calling everything a transferable skill and hoping for the best.
Build real relationships
Create a focused relationship map and outreach strategy that starts with curiosity, credibility, and follow-through.
Earn the interview
Prepare stories that show what you personally owned, how you think, and what happened because you were there.
PLAY YOUR CAREER HAND™
PLAY YOUR
CAREER
HAND™
IN SPORTS &
ENTERTAINMENT
THE HONEST PLAYBOOK FOR BREAKING IN, MOVING UP, AND GETTING HIREDRACHEL HOPPER GRASSIBook coming soon
Coming soon
A real book for a very confusing industry.
The honest playbook for breaking in, moving up, and getting hired.
The book I wish every sports candidate could read before applying to 200 vaguely related jobs, asking a stranger to “pick their brain,” or calling a role their dream job before proving they can do it.
Ways to work with me
Sports career help at the level you need.
Get a fast recruiter read, position your résumé and LinkedIn together, or build the complete three-session search plan. Focused help is priced clearly because “custom scope” should not be code for surprise invoice.
Quick Read
$150
30 minutes
A direct recruiter read of your résumé or LinkedIn profile, what says business candidate, what says superfan, and what to fix first.
Book nowSports Career Positioning
$400
Résumé + LinkedIn
Position both tools around the sports-business problems you can solve, with proof that travels from another industry when needed.
Book nowSports Search Plan
$750
Three working sessions
Résumé and LinkedIn positioning plus target organizations, relationship strategy, and the moves most likely to create sports-industry traction.
Book nowSee every support optionInterviewing, outreach, negotiation, ongoing strategy, and higher-touch partnerships
Focused support
Sports Career Clarity
$250
60 minutes
Choose your lane, identify realistic entry points, and stop applying to every role that happens to involve a ball, stage, screen, or arena.
Book nowSports Interview Preparation
$250
60 minutes
Turn industry passion into business proof and prepare for the questions sports hiring teams actually use to separate candidates.
Book nowSports Networking & Outreach
$250
60 minutes
Map the teams, properties, agencies, brands, and people who can open the right doors, then approach them with a credible story.
Book nowOffer Negotiation Support
$250
At offer stage
Evaluate the opportunity, compensation, title, and career tradeoffs before you accept the logo instead of the job.
Book nowGo all in
VIP Sports Career Accelerator
$1,500
Eight weeks
Hands-on support across positioning, materials, networking, interviews, and decisions for candidates committed to breaking in or moving up.
Let’s talk firstOngoing Sports Search Support
Custom scope
Ongoing advisory
Strategy, accountability, and course correction throughout a competitive sports or entertainment search.
Let’s talk firstFree recruiter-calibrated diagnostic
Does your résumé show proof, or only passion?
Unicorn Signal shows you what a recruiter notices in the first five seconds and where your sports-career signal gets lost.
Stop applying. Start positioning.