{"id":3370,"date":"2026-09-15T05:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T05:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:01:28","slug":"5-career-skills-a-sport-and-exercise-degree-gives-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=3370","title":{"rendered":"5 Career skills a sport and exercise degree gives you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Studying a sport and exercise degree teaches you more skills than you realise. In the video below #TeamOUsport academic Simon Rea explores the transferable skills students develop, including critical thinking, communication, problem solving and adaptability \u2013 skills that can strengthen employability for careers both within and beyond sport.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"5 Career Skills A Sport Degree Gives You That Employers Want\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/88IhNbNc9ZE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Simon has also written the article below looking at careers in sport and exercise.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=3306\" >Careers in sport and exercise: what can you do?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studying a sport and exercise degree teaches you more skills than you realise. In the video below #TeamOUsport academic Simon Rea explores the transferable skills students develop, including critical thinking, communication, problem solving and adaptability \u2013 skills that can strengthen employability for careers both within and beyond sport. Simon has also written the article below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers-in-sport-and-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}