You’ve trained
your whole life.
Now what?
Athletes To Industry is a structured career programme for athletes moving out of the elite pathway. Built for the released academy player at 17 and the retiring pro at 32. Across rugby, football, cricket, athletics, and every sport in between. Real career planning, real training, real introductions, all run on a platform built for this designed to support people through the move from sport into a working life that lasts.
Operated by Andrews Recruitment Group · Powered by The People System
Leaving elite sport
is rarely
well-handled.
A seventeen-year-old who has chased a contract for a decade, told they have not been picked up. A semi-pro in their late twenties whose body will not take another season. A retiring professional at thirty-two, physically fit, sharp, and quietly worried that the only thing they know how to do is play.
Most athletes leave the game with a CV that does not reflect them, a professional network that does not exist outside their sport, and an identity that has lived inside one discipline for as long as they can remember.
Athletes To Industry exists because being a great athlete and being a stranger to the working world should not be the same thing. We do not place athletes into jobs. We help them build the next career properly, with structure, support, and a real human running it.
Not a job board.
A plan for a person.
01
Recruitment, not referral
Andrews Recruitment Group is a working recruitment business, not an athlete-development agency that has bolted on placement. Athletes are taken through by recruiters who place into real sectors every week.
02
A timed pathway
Week 1, Month 1, Month 3, Month 6, Month 12. Every athlete in the programme has visibility on what happens at each stage and what is expected of them. No drift.
03
A real operating system
The People System is a full talent and learning platform built and owned by ARG. Athletes, employers, trainers and courses sit on it. Everyone matched, nothing lost.
04
Wide sector range
Industrial, technical, commercial, financial services, trades, media, sales. The match is built for the athlete, not bent toward a predefined client list.
The first ninety
days are ours.
Week 1 through Month 3 is owned by ARG. Screening, onboarding, workshops, introductions. From Month 6 onwards, the development plan is co-owned with the employer the athlete has joined. A clean structure. A real human at every step.
WEEK 1
· Screening call with Tom or Lucy
· Onboarded onto The People System
· Goals, options, expectations
MONTH 1
· CV writing workshop
· Interview skills workshop
· Job-search and tech workshops
MONTH 2
· Certificated training
· Delivered by trusted partners
· At zero cost to the athlete
MONTH 3
· Client introductions live
· Interviews scheduled
· First trial days arranged
MONTH 6
· Placement embedded
· Development plan agreed
· Ongoing employer support
MONTH 12
· Twelve-month review
· Career progression check-in
· Programme alumni network
If this lands
with you…
Whether you run a club, a business, a training organisation, or a player welfare programme, we want to hear from you. The model only works at scale if the right people are at the table.
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