With his initial interest in working in the sports industry centred around becoming part of the marketing department at a professional football club, the experience in his role so far at MK Dons has seen him re-evaluate his future career path. He had a big part to play in the launch of the new online shop, with the club taking on board his research and suggestions. Sam even gets to experience the buzz on transfer deadline day, taking calls from club management to produce new printed shirts for the club鈥檚 latest signings.
Sam, who was SU president during his time at UCFB, said: 鈥The marketing aspect of my degree comes into the retail side of things at MK a lot. You鈥檝e got to market your product as well as you can and make sure it sells to its full potential. Also, you need to know what鈥檚 your mark up, what鈥檚 your margins, that kind of thing.鈥
With some advice for prospective and current UCFB student aspiring to work in the football and sports industry, he added:听鈥淚 believe one of the most important traits to work in sport is a lot of patience, a lot of persistence and a fair amount of confidence. Whatever you want will come eventually, even if it鈥檚 not now.鈥
