Life Skills and Podium X Partner to Enhance Student-Athlete Experience

Lincoln, NE – Nebraska Life Skills is using Podium X to offer career development and personal marketing tools to its student-athletes. Podium X changes the way student-athletes prepare and apply for jobs and internships as well as market themselves for NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) opportunities.

“The Life Skills team consistently looks for new ways to enhance the student-athlete experience at Nebraska. We are thrilled to partner with Podium X and for Husker student-athletes to benefit from the many career development resources available through this unique platform. This partnership is yet another great example of Nebraska’s commitment to preparing student-athletes for their life after sports.” – Tom Lemke, Assistant Director of Life Skills/PEO Director 

The Podium X platform (www.podiumx.com) allows creation of an online profile that is specially designed for athletes to highlight their unique journey and valuable soft skills often developed through athletics. Student-athletes can represent themselves digitally or create traditional resume PDFs or NIL Pitch Profiles with a click and be matched to hundreds of national job openings. Employers post job openings and can view student profiles that match the skills they need.

“We are looking forward to getting Podium X on campus and sharing our personal marketing tools for NIL and career readiness,” says Rich Thompson, Founder & CEO of Podium X.  “As a former collegiate athlete and HR executive, I know the value athletic experience brings to the workplace. We want to help student-athletes showcase themselves in the best possible way to highlight those lessons learned and position themselves for career success upon graduation.”

Podium X was developed by experts in career services with extensive experience in staffing and recruiting, training/development, talent management, and human resources. It is backed by the power of XPG Recruit Athlete, a division of Jacksonville, Florida based XPG Recruit, with an experienced team that specializes in placing graduated athletes into career opportunities.