Are you looking for a new coaching position? If so make time during the convention to take advantage of the complimentary career services offered to AVCA Convention attendees:
- Meet one-on-one with career counselors to discuss tips for resume writing, improving interview skills/mock interviews, identifying networking opportunities, legal issues/coaching contracts, building your personal brand, how to search for jobs, and more.
- Review Salary Survey results organized by division and by conference.
- Post open positions on your staff. Those who have an open position are encouraged to bring the job description to the convention or e-mail the description in advance to Becca Just at becca.just@avca.org.
- Search open positions and post your resume.
Coaches seeking assistance with resume writing & resume critique should schedule an appointment with Karen Silins. Coaches seeking assistance on sports industry specific career topics or would like to do a mock interview should schedule an appointment with Jona Braden.
Career counseling times are as follows (all Career Center activities are located in Hall E of the Kansas City Convention Center):
Thursday, Dec. 18
Karen Silins
Counseling: 1:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Jona Braden
Counseling: 1:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 19
Karen Silins
Counseling: 1 – 6 p.m.
Jona Braden
Counseling: 1 – 6 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 20
Karen Silins
Counseling: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Jona Braden
Counseling: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Jona Braden
Karen Silins
Career Counselors:
Jona Braden
Jona Braden is currently an Assistant Volleyball Coach at 2018 Division III national champion Emory University. Prior to her position at Emory, Braden served as the Head Volleyball Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta. Collegiately, she served as the Head Volleyball Coach at the University of Kentucky from 1998 – 2004 and at Butler University from 1983 – 1990. Jona has been an athletics administrator for seventeen years including three years as an Associate Athletics Director/Senior Woman Administrator and two years as a Senior Associate Athletics Director at Butler. Among her duties as an athletics administrator Jona was responsible for assessing and hiring head coaches along with mentoring and helping in the employment process of assistant coaches. In addition, Jona wrote one of the chapters in “The Volleyball Coaching Bible, Coaching Principles & Priorities: The Ups & Downs of a Season.”
Karen Silins
Karen Silins is a multi-certified, award winning, resume writer, career, and business coach, serving clients throughout the U.S. and internationally for 25 years. Karen has held a membership in the prestigious Forbes Coaches Council since 2016, has been published numerous times in Forbes Online and National Resume Writers’ Association expert articles/posts, was chosen as one of 38 Career Experts to Watch in 2018 on Twitter. She is also a frequent event, podcast, radio, television, book, and article guest expert or contributor for organizations such as Wall Street Journal, Her Money Magazine, Practical Happiness (book), Strategy Lab Podcast, JobPack Podcast, KMBZ and KCUR radio, Kansas City Star, The Examiner, and KSHB, KCTV-5. KMBC, and WDAF. She resides in Kansas City, Missouri with her husband Andrew and their rescue dogs.
