This document provides advice on advancing one's career, including setting goals, maintaining a professional resume and references, highlighting relevant work experience and skills, and preparing for interview questions. It emphasizes personal and professional goal-setting, keeping one's resume focused and telling their unique story, and having a backup plan. The document recommends constantly updating one's portfolio and preparing for future opportunities through experience, including from past mistakes. It stresses making good decisions based on experience.

3. How to advance in your career
Goals
Resume
Work Experience
References
Skill Set
Interview Questions

4. Goals
• Personal /Your goals
• Professional Goals
• Brian Tracy Goal Setting program
– Set 10 goals every day and write them down
doesn’t matter the area, just set 10 goals each day and
put them on paper
• Family
• 1. Go with the right person (as an assistant, as a head coach the right
administrator)
• 2. Go where your skills are utilized
• 3. What level? What league
• 4. Location

5. Resume
• Professionally done and edited
• What do you want to know about a candidate if you
were on the other side?
• Keep out information not pertaining to your story
• Tell your story with the resume with spark (something
different about you than others applying for the same
job)

6. Work Experience
• All relevant work related jobs to the one you
will be applying for
• What have you done to prepare you for the
next job?
• Frame your job descriptions by giving a vivid
picture of what you have done

7. References
• Written out names and contact information
• Legit references who know you and more importantly
know you
• Who will call on your behalf?
• Circle of Influence (150) Always building your circle
(coaches, referees, players you have coached, local
business leaders, administrators, friends)

8. Skill Set
• What is your niche?
• You do something better than anyone else
• How do you articulate that skill on paper?
• How have your separated yourself?
Do you know it, can you teach it, can players
improve from your teaching, can you recruit
with it, does it sell to administrators?

9. Interview Questions• The tough questions
• Practice interview/ Have someone give you a
practice interview
• The Dan Sullivan question
• Why, Why, Why?
– Why should we hire you? Why are you the best
candidate?
Why do you want this job?
• Have a back up plan
– This is not your only option/ Have something to fall back
on if this job does not come through. Don’t seem

10. Have your portfolio updated
• Each year update your resume
• List all accomplishments and new jobs,
assignments or skills learned
• What you bring to the position?
• Prepare yourself for the next opportunity, do
not position yourself

12. How do you have success?
Two words
Good decisions
How do make good decisions?
One word
Experience
How do you do get experience?
Bad Decisions

13. Please contact with questions
Tom Kelsey
tkelsey@lsu.edu
225 578 1265
lsusports.net

14. • Scouting Principles
•
• How well do they get back in transition?
• How do their post men get back down the floor?
• How well do they pick up shooters?
• How well do they stop the ball
• Do they press?
• Where are they effective on their press?
• Where are they weak on their press?
• Where can you get easy baskets vs. them on the break?
• Who is the last one down the floor the majority of the time?
• Who on their team does a poor job of getting down the floor?
• Who is the best on their team at getting back and protecting the rim and the paint?
• Where can you get a easy basket in the post on the break?
• Where can you get a quick drive off the break?
• Where can you get a quick 3 point shot off a down screen off the break?
• How is their a size mismatch?
• How do they guard the post? Front, ¾, behind?
• How do they guard screens block to block?
• How do they guard ball screens with their post players?
• How can we score on their post players?
• Drive them, make them guard ball screens, make them guard cross screens, etc.
• Can we seal, dribble down or feed from on top to get the ball in the paint?
• Who can we drive the ball against?
• Who is poor at closing out?
• Who cannot contain the ball up top?
• Who is their best on ball defender?
• How do they guard screens away from the ball.
• How is their helpside defense?
• How well do they contest shots?
• How do they guard staggered and flare screens?
• Who on their team will go for the shot fake on the perimeter or in the post?
• How well do they help and recover to the ball?
• How long will they play defense each possession?
• 15 sec. 20 sec. 25 sec. 30 sec. 35 sec
• How good are they once the ball is swung twice around the perimeter?
• How well do they blockout?
– Post Players
– Wings
– Point Guards
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15. • How to they block out on the Free Throws?
• What type of Zone Defense do they play?
• Where do most teams score against their zone?
• Can you screen them in their zone?
• Blocks
• Elbows
• Can you overload their zone?
• What is the best way to get the ball in the paint vs. their zone?
• What are options to get the ball on the block?
• What are options to get an open 3 pointer vs. their zone?
• What makes their defense effective?
• Can you center screen their zone?
• Can you ball screen their zone? Inside ball screen or outside ball screen?
• Can you penetrate vs. their zone?
• Can you rebound vs. their zone and which side of the zone can we get offensive rebounds.
• Can you dribble and tbrowback vs. their zone?
• Can you get the ball in the short corner and high post vs. their zone?
• Can you dribble loop vs. their zone?
• What are the weak areas of their zone?
• Poor at closeouts
• Poor at rebounding
• Will go for fakes
• Can be screened.
• Do they foul much?
• Who on their team is the most foul prone?

16. Staff
How to handle
Off the court issues
On the court issues
Recruiting logs
Recruiting grid
Recruiting map
Recruiting schedule for the next 6 months, 3 months, 1 month, 2 weeks, upcoming week
How to handle game situations:
Special situations
One coach in charge each time whistle blows during the game
Foul-who was the foul on, how many toward the team foul amount
Timeouts taken (mark time on clock when timeout taken)
Clock situations-shot clock (time remaining on shot clock)
Make sure clock stopped and is accurate
Do not talk or make comments to the refs during game action or while the ball is live.
Never blame outcome on the officials to family, friends or team
Speaking with Boosters and Alumni
Know the rules and who you can and can not comment on during a conversation.
Use general terms when speaking about a particular recruit

17. Take every name or recommendation through phone call, letter, email, neighbor or person on the street. Make them feel
special –grateful they are wiling to help.
Recruiting is the lifeblood of the program, but our team comes before recruiting. The relationships with our players are the
most important job we have.
Recruit, recruit, recruit-but spend as much time thinking about our present team and how to help them improve on and off
the court.
Spend time on the phone, writing letters and in face to face conversation. Social media and on the phone with buddies will
not help us get players. Can be an asset, but not the main cog.
Understand how to get players here-Hard Work, Relationships, Follow Up and Belief in the Dream.
Sell the dream
Believe the dream
If you come to the point you don’t believe the dream you need to do something else.
Work for the University 1st, the Athletic Department 2nd, the Head Coach 3rd. All 3 important. Each decision you make
affects these three groups.

18. Come to work each day with a way to make things better
We catch young men at the best time and most vulnerable time of their lives.
We have to be at our best to care of them.
You must take care of yourself
Physically
Eat right
Get proper rest
Exercise
Present yourself well
Young adults are looking up to you for an example in your appearance
Educate yourself
In our profession
In other areas outside basketball
Be well rounded so you can talk with people outside of basketball. It will expand your horizons.
Parents want their children to get a great education and to be around the quality people.
Be the kind of person that has qualities a parents wants their child to be around.