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James Kirtley – Btb’S Essential Guide from Bowling Umpiring – to Business the Lowdown 03 issue BOUNDARIES The Personal Development Magazine of the Professional Cricketers’ Association Wintering abroad – JAMES KIRTLEy – BtB’s essential guide FROM bowLING Umpiring – to business the lowdown Top 10 job interview tips www.thepca.co.uk JARDINE LLOYD THOMPSON CONTENTS FOREWORD Welcome to the third edition of Beyond the Boundaries, the Career in Focus – Starting your own business 4 PCA’s Personal Development Magazine. James Kirtley juggles cricket with business View from the interviewer’s chair 8 Jason Ratcliffe, Assistant Chief Executive Top 10 interview tips he last 12 months have brought Why would an employer want you? 9 with it many changes, both Identify your transferable skills T domestically and internationally, 10 and the success of Twenty20 around Umpiring as a career 10 the world has elevated both the status Chris Kelly on becoming an umpire of cricket in the public eye and the amount of money in the game. More Playing abroad 12 money within the game is good not only Your essential guide to playing abroad this winter for all levels within cricket but also for you, the players. Playing for England, Returning to education 14 IPL, Champions League or Stanford can What learning style suits you the best? be very lucrative if you are fortunate and get the chance to do so. There is PCA Winter Courses 16 certainly more of an incentive to be a Info on the PCA courses to be run this winter cricketer for young children who would previously have chosen football instead. Career in Focus – Police Force 17 But while we hope these new found Could the long arm of the law be the riches filter through the game, we mustn’t career for you? forget that professional cricket is still a relatively short career which can end Where are they now? 18 prematurely through injury or illness. Stanford shows cricket the money. Catch up on what the U19 World Cup There are many examples of players The PCA are trying to ensure that you and inspire you to fulfil your goals, team of 1998 are up to now affected, some of whom are helped make the most of your cricketing career ambitions or simply to discover a new by the PCA Benevolent Fund, such as by helping you to plan for your future, element in life that you didn’t know Brain Training 21 ex-Gloucestershire batsman Dominic both on the pitch and off it. The winter is a existed. Nothing is impossible if you Try our interactive quiz and give your Hewson, whose career was cut short valuable time to put career plans in place have a pro-active approach combined brain a workout! when he was diagnosed with a heart by going abroad, working, gaining work with positive condition and has recently undergone an experience or attending courses. thought, planning PL Team Contacts 22 operation, or Glamorgan’s Adam Harrison We hope the excellent articles in this and support. who has been forced to retire through a issue of Beyond the Boundaries will PCA Contacts 23 persistent ankle injury. help and guide you in your planning 16 Kate Green, Performance Lifestyle National Lead s we near the end of the season • Do you know what you and the club PCA Winter Courses and much more. it is probably a good chance for want for you over the winter? The season is coming to an end and now is Edited by Rachel Newnham, Player Services Executive, PCA us all to take a moment to stop • Do you have a ‘masterplan’ in mind? the perfect time to make plans for your winter. Design by TriNorth Limited A and think. It’s a chance to reflect on how We hope you find this issue of Printed by Jellyfish Solutions Limited things have gone and what you need This magazine and the monthly PCA Beyond the Boundaries enjoyable and Special thanks to Ian Thomas and Jim Hindson to plan for the future – in the short, E-newsletter you receive are packed full useful, and if you don’t find information Cover image by Jim Hindson medium and long term. Some things to of articles, advice and contacts to get on something you are particularly All imagery courtesy of Getty Images unless otherwise stated get you thinking: you thinking. In this issue of Beyond the interested in, please contact a PL • If you’re in your last/only year of Boundaries we have showcased business Adviser who can help you further… The views and opinions expressed in this brochure are those of the individual contract, do you need to prepare for start-up, umpiring, transferable skills, the Good luck with the rest of the season! contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publishers or the your appraisals? increasingly popular – and now regional – PCA. Reproduction in whole or in part is strictly prohibited without the prior 18 03 consent of the publishers. www.thepca.co.uk CAREER BUSINESS BUSINESS CAREER Career in Focus – Setting up your own business - James Kirtley Performance Lifestyle National Lead Kate Green, looks into how Sussex’s James Kirtley has successfully started up his own business alongside his Roger said about James: “It’s that cricketing career. Like all good insider knowledge, the profile, the things it started attention to detail and drive for Simple Stats Further Facts In October 2006 James worked full-time in the winter and success all fostered as a player.” 2003-04 Test Matches for England 1st work Experience Roger became full-time year round. They also acquired their with a pub chat • Think about what business can 2004-05 ODI for England £10,000 investment in MKK first office in a cost effective short-term rent deal – in January with a friend, later teach you, when you are not being 2007-08 England Twenty20 squad MKK 07/08 turnover £350,000 2008 they were able to upgrade and purchase a new premises to be business spoon-fed! It’s the lessons you which holds both offices and storage. Since 2007 they have learn from experience, the ‘real’ Many cricketers tell me how busy they are as a reason to also employed an administrator, a business development partner, resulting consequences of not being organised preclude doing anything else. Today I sat listening to a player who manager and a consultant designer, and are keen to expand in his first or not communicating efficiently was explaining how he managed a cricketing career, benefit year, nationally through regional account managers in October 2008. and effectively. This is especially sports & leisure wear company, cricket tournament organising business plan important if you have your name/ company and new fatherhood commitments – it makes you think 2nd Business Venture – Sport mortgage attached to its outcome… just how much is actually possible! Arabia • Think ahead – by about five years! In James Kirtley has played for England in different forms over While visiting schools as part of MKK business, learning to think and plan the years. In the winters he either played cricket or coached there seemed to be an apparent need for five years ahead is the hardest abroad. At the same time he also had his eye on planning for cricket tournaments organised but most crucial thing, as it will for a career that could go alongside his cricket and possibly abroad. In 2006 James and Roger joined enable successful expansion without be something for the future. He didn’t want to be a surfeit forces with Matt Jackson, a link within having to incur added costs at re- cricketer – someone who made it the ‘be all and end all’. Arabian Cricket, to form Sport Arabia, a estimating what is needed. Seven years full-time with back-to-back seasons had left him cricket tournament organising company • Be realistic and clear about sacrificing a lot and mentally tired. facilitating bespoke packages for everything! Timescales, logistics, groups. This has proved a huge success, your market, cost in money and Getting into business… with tournaments and pre-season time, work and personal time in Like all good things it started with a pub chat with a friend, packages being delivered. researching, developing, organising later to be business partner, resulting in his first business Their plans now are to incorporate the everything – it’s a ‘fine art’ plan (including financials) in 2002 – ‘Caught in the Deep!’, a ever changing landscape of international balancing everything. Be prepared to fish and chip take away shop. Unfortunately they found out that cricket and have a Twenty20 competition understand how you work best, set due to the proposed location restrictions it couldn’t go ahead at the end of the Pro-Arch Trophy which limits and use measured deadlines. and still to this day remains only a plan! will include the county squads, IPL The following year he spent his first full winter at home franchises and a FICA World XI… Ultimately James believes it’s what during which time he did his first ever work experience: you get in return that makes working six weeks with Newbery as an Account Manager, liaising Advice to other Cricketers at a contingency plan worth it all. As a with customers. It was a kit request about material, piping • Don’t be too proud! Seek advice cricketer you love nothing more than variations and custom-made possibilities that got him from trusted and successful people; the buzz you get from the game. You thinking about what experience he had that he could use in sponsors of you or the club, local can also get that from securing a big the business world.
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