For working in sports (clarify, collegiate), I really don't know that much about pro sports. But I would like to work in professional sports someday!
So pretty much whenever a job in pro sports opens up, I'm always half-heartedly applying. A few months ago, something came up with ESPN and I figured what the heck, if anyone ever calls me back, it doesn't hurt to keep practicing my interview skills, right? Well the chances of anyone ever calling me back are VERY minor when you apply online.
Buuuuut, ESPN called me this weekend, looking to fill a statistics/information position. Which is cool, because I work in sports information and keep stats often.
So when I finally called back, to my surprise, instead of an interview, they had a list of "random sports knowledge questions" to ask me, just to see if I'd even be worthy of moving on to an actual interview.
So here are the six random questions they asked me and tell me if you think I passed or not:
1.) Explain how you calculate a pitcher's earned run average
2.) Name five current Lakers other than Kobe
3.) Name all of the golf masters tournaments
4.) Who is the winningest college Division I men's basketball coach and what years was he at the school(s) he compiled that record
5.) Something about NASCAR, I had no idea so I asked to come back to it, but never did
6.) Which NFL player recorded the most career touchdowns, what years and who'd he play for?
7.) Name the last 10 Heisman Trophy winners and where they played in college
How'd you do? Could you work for ESPN?
....Yeah, I apparently didn't answer enough of those questions right to move on to the interview. I'm the worst sports journalist/statistician, ever. The ONE time my name actually gets picked from a billion online applicants and I actually think I might have a shot, I blow it. Hence why, I'm a joke. I wonder if I'm ever going to make it to pro sports. And I'm really let down in myself, because this might have been my one big shot, you know?
But they did say I had an impressive résumé.... just not impressive knowledge I guess ;) I can't explain how lame I felt when I responded to their little quiz. Like I'm a girl who knows how to stat sports, just nothing actually about professional sports.
Boom goes the dynamite.
Hopefully I'll do better on this Friday's Jeopardy online quiz, where if you get a certain amount correct, your name goes into the database to be randomly selected as a competitor on the show!
So pretty much whenever a job in pro sports opens up, I'm always half-heartedly applying. A few months ago, something came up with ESPN and I figured what the heck, if anyone ever calls me back, it doesn't hurt to keep practicing my interview skills, right? Well the chances of anyone ever calling me back are VERY minor when you apply online.
Buuuuut, ESPN called me this weekend, looking to fill a statistics/information position. Which is cool, because I work in sports information and keep stats often.
So when I finally called back, to my surprise, instead of an interview, they had a list of "random sports knowledge questions" to ask me, just to see if I'd even be worthy of moving on to an actual interview.
So here are the six random questions they asked me and tell me if you think I passed or not:
1.) Explain how you calculate a pitcher's earned run average
2.) Name five current Lakers other than Kobe
3.) Name all of the golf masters tournaments
4.) Who is the winningest college Division I men's basketball coach and what years was he at the school(s) he compiled that record
5.) Something about NASCAR, I had no idea so I asked to come back to it, but never did
6.) Which NFL player recorded the most career touchdowns, what years and who'd he play for?
7.) Name the last 10 Heisman Trophy winners and where they played in college
How'd you do? Could you work for ESPN?
....Yeah, I apparently didn't answer enough of those questions right to move on to the interview. I'm the worst sports journalist/statistician, ever. The ONE time my name actually gets picked from a billion online applicants and I actually think I might have a shot, I blow it. Hence why, I'm a joke. I wonder if I'm ever going to make it to pro sports. And I'm really let down in myself, because this might have been my one big shot, you know?
But they did say I had an impressive résumé.... just not impressive knowledge I guess ;) I can't explain how lame I felt when I responded to their little quiz. Like I'm a girl who knows how to stat sports, just nothing actually about professional sports.
Boom goes the dynamite.
Hopefully I'll do better on this Friday's Jeopardy online quiz, where if you get a certain amount correct, your name goes into the database to be randomly selected as a competitor on the show!
5 comments:
I answered two of those questions, and I've been amassing that kind of knowledge far longer than you have, dear one.
ESPN hires morons, obviously. The Masters is one tournament. The golf question is about the Grand Slam.
Seriously? NASCAR? I would die a little bit every day if I had to work with NASCAR stats. You're much better off without ESPN.
Maybe they used to hire people just for the job, like accountants or something, and it embarassed them later that the people sometimes didn't know anything about actual sports. Which means they are shallow and only thinking about their image, so no sense working for shallow people, lol.
But I am having a similar crisis and don't want to pass up a really rare opportunity but am afraid of failing most horribly, so I kinda know how you feel. It's like, ohh if only I knew more about everything, ahhhhh!
I'm glad I didn't have to correctly answer all those questions to get my job with ESPN.
I def would not make it past the first question lol. I actually live very close to ESPN.
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