Liam Hopkins

Curriculum Vitae Liam Hopkins Current job title: Stores operative at Edmundson’s Electrical. --linkedin.com/in/liam-hopkins-14422a1a1 Personal statement: I am a sports management graduate, who has begun creating an E-commerce business called “Rest N Recovery” using social media to advertise and sell physical therapy products in the health and fitness sector. I have invested in an online course to help me set up my business correctly and increase the probability of me succeeding early on. On top of this, I am also currently helping with the management of a UEFA A licence football coaches social media accounts. @ssf.1on1 is a professional, private football coach using social media to grow the engagement, and overall consumption of his business. I have successfully helped in delivering engaging content and created a sense of community towards our specific target audience of professional academy players, and aspiring football professionals. Using social media as a marketing tool has resulted in a growth of online engagement, audience, and presence of the business. I am also studying my level 3 personal training course whilst taking on a few friends as clients to help practice, create content, and set up my own online fitness page on social media. Work experience: I currently work at Edmundson’s electrical where I am a stores operative working either in the warehouse or delivering to customers in the van. As a stores operative, my role holds several different responsibilities such as, warehouse work and helping serve customers in store as well. I take great pride in customer satisfactory and always strive to go the extra mile to build solid relationships with regular customers. I also worked in a restaurant, either waiting tables and welcoming customers, or delivering food to people’s doorsteps throughout the pandemic. This experience has also allowed me to develop skills in how to treat customers and be as helpful as possible to them. Whilst I was studying at university, I had a job as a steward at major sporting events. I worked at both Manchester United and worked for Showsec, who ran the Manchester City fixtures and other major events such as other sporting events, concerts, and festivals. Again, the role was focused on customer satisfactory by making sure the customers are safe, happy and have everything they need. Education: Undergraduate degree – Sports Management 2:1 Throughout my studies, I grew my skillset by mastering modules such as, sports marketing, commercial aspects of sport, international sports ownership and governance, leadership in practice, project management, sport enterprise and community, sport in society, business intelligence and strategic sports management. Within these modules I took on projects such as creating our own charity sporting event for comic relief which had to be a sport with a twist to it. Once we came up with an idea, we had to go through several planning processes to ensure our idea would be a success. We also had to go through a risk assessment which helped us discover any potential setbacks and issues with the project. After analysing every possible detail, we then begun to market, gain sponsorship, raise funds, and sell tickets for our event. Overall, it was a massive success as we managed to raise over £600 for comic relief. A-Levels & GCSE’s During my A-Levels, I achieved an A* in Creative Media Studies. Which included topics such as, research techniques for the creative media industry, pre-production techniques for the creative media industry, writing for content, TV, and video. Video, content and music production, film and video editing techniques, digital marketing, and digital data analysis. Throughout my whole time in education, I was always extremely passionate about sports, creative media, and business studies. I have always had a strong desire and dedicated my life to build a career tailored to what I am both passionate about, and talented in. I also achieved 7 GCSE’S with one A* in Media Studies, 3 B’s in English Literature, English Language, and PE. And 3 C’s in Maths, Science, and business studies. These were achieved during a period of great sporting success, captaining the school football team to league and cup titles. As well as Club football and County football at a high level, this taught me great leadership properties, such as how to effectively motivate others and to strive for fairness and equality to help those around me reach their optimum. Growing up, I had a desire to try out multiple sports and competed in Basketball, Cricket, Golf, Boxing and Taekwondo. Skills: I possess and tirelessly improve on several skillsets which I know will benefit me and the future I am trying to shape. For example, creating numerous presentations at university has taught me to be an eloquent speaker with an abundance of self-confidence in any situation. I am highly motivated to work hard at being an unhesitating achiever full of positivity and inner strength. I am a fast learner and feel like my friendly and supportive nature has naturally allowed me to be good at giving advice and counselling others to self-improvement. I am very observant, analytical and possess a strong attention to detail in any kind of circumstance. My studies have allowed me to express one of my greatest strengths which is my natural creativity. I have always had a wild imagination and have been lucky enough to express this through creative media production. All my life and work experiences have taught me to be adaptable, versatile, productive, and dynamic. I have also completed an 8-week online course for affiliate and digital marketing which has given me more clarity and wisdom of the growing wants and needs of consumers in the sports media sector. It has also taught me how to be more practical, efficient, and decisive when taking the bigger picture of a project into consideration. Additional information: I am highly ambitious and strive to succeed in both the physical and business sides of sport. My main goal is to help people take control of their lives, strive for self-improvement, and become healthy and happy people using online engagement. I see digital business as the future and believe this would be the best approach to reach a specific target audience and positively impact their lives. I would enjoy and be very passionate about perusing this goal as I would find it extremely purposeful and rewarding. I intend to grow a successful career in the sports media / business sector and use my skillset to market my own fitness, health & wellbeing, and life coaching pages in my spare time as a hobby on the side of my career.