{"id":9696,"date":"2016-03-15T04:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T09:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/?p=9696"},"modified":"2016-03-14T07:15:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T12:15:32","slug":"prospects-need-a-plan-to-achieve-their-end-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/prospects-need-a-plan-to-achieve-their-end-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospects need a plan to achieve their end game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Everyone has an end game, but few prospects and families have a plan how to get there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When you walk into a hiring manager’s office, one of the first questions you often hear is: “What is your end game?”<\/p>\n

The second? “Tell me what steps you plan to take to get there?”<\/p>\n

It makes perfect sense. The person hiring wants to know if\u00a0the company’s resources\u00a0and your plans can be seamlessly intertwined. \u00a0You want something. They want something. What remains is to determine if the company has a proven path already worn by others\u00a0which will allow you to see steady progress toward reaching your own ultimate end game? That is a sensible approach that most job seekers appreciate.<\/p>\n

At National Scouting Report, these are the same two questions we frequently\u00a0pose to\u00a0potential prospects during the\u00a0exploratory and interview phases of our selection process. \u00a0It is not a coincidence.<\/p>\n

Truth is, if as NSR scouts, we have done our homework well, we\u00a0know the answer to Question No. 1: to play in college or receive a college scholarship. It is a given.<\/p>\n

However, when we\u00a0pose Question No. 2, we\u00a0often get\u00a0a\u00a0blank stare in return. Families are simultaneously surprised and confused. Panic begins to sneak in as families come face to face with the awful, careless truth: They do not have a plan.<\/p>\n

Here you have these well-intended, intelligent people, including an athlete who legitimately can play somewhere in college,\u00a0with\u00a0no real\u00a0idea of how to make their child’s dream become reality.<\/p>\n

So, the questions beg: Isn\u2019t everyone’s recruiting process the same? Can\u2019t we do the same thing everybody else does?<\/p>\n

Answers: no and no.<\/p>\n

All\u00a0prospects and their circumstances are totally different. Assuming they are all mirror images of one another is\u00a0a critical mistake many families make. Like falling snowflakes, every prospect’s situation may\u00a0appear the same from a distance, but under a microscope, it is not even close.<\/p>\n

This is a product of our society’s shoot first, aim later tendency, whereby people see a mirage in the form of a college athlete and falsely believe it takes little more than a hop and skip to get there. Imaginations may work that way, but reality is far more time consuming and the journey exceedingly more complex.<\/p>\n

The steps to achieve the end game are what NSR scouts encourage families to seriously consider when entering the complicated college recruiting process. Without those calculated steps, prospects and parents can expect to be observers instead of participants when their signing period rolls around and passes them by without even a tap on the brake.<\/p>\n

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When you walk into a hiring manager’s office, one of the first questions you often hear is: “What is your end game?” The second? “Tell me what steps you plan to take to get there?” It makes perfect sense. The person hiring wants to know if\u00a0the company’s resources\u00a0and your plans can be seamlessly intertwined. \u00a0You … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[31,57,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9696"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9809,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9696\/revisions\/9809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}