Online Recruiting Profile — Setup Guide

Your online recruiting profile is an essential tool for your college recruiting process. It is a public website link that you can share with coaches via email, post on social media, text to your friends, or distribute wherever else that may be useful. The goal is to have a central place for coaches to learn more about you, watch your highlight videos, and make sure you're a great academic and athletic fit for their school.

This guide will teach you how to set up your ProductiveReruit profile and how you can share it. Let's get started.

* Note: you can click a link in the below table of contents to jump to a specific section

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Initial profile setup

After first creating your account, you will go through a simple onboarding flow to get your profile set up. You can add your profile picture, enter academic information like GPA, test scores, and high school, and add your position, height, weight, and important statistics related to your sport.

How to update your Profile

After you go through the initial onboarding steps of getting your profile set up, you will land on the dashboard. This is where you will always land after logging back into ProductiveRecruit. Once on the dashboard, you will see the profile completion widget at the top of the screen. After initial login, you will see all the additional steps you need to take to complete your profile.

Here are two ways you can get to the edit profile page:

Click "Edit Profile" from the profile completion widget
Click "Profile" in the sidebar navigation

1. Clicking "Edit Profile" from the profile completion widget

2. Clicking "Profile" from the sidebar navigation

After clicking "Profile" you will be taken to the profiles page where you can choose to edit your profile(s) or view the live online version. This page is here because you could have up to two profiles (each for a different sport).

Once you are here, click "Edit Profile" for the profile you wish to update. You will be taken to the edit profile page.

Once on the edit profile page, you can update your information, add new videos, and much more. There are nine different tabs on the edit profile page:

Profile
Video
Events
Academics
Athletics
References
Accolades
Contact
Settings

Manage your profile general information

Clicking the profile tab will allow you to edit your basic information such as your name, profile picture, birthday, location, and personal statement. Make any updates to this data and then click the "Save" button at the bottom. Any changes you make will automatically be updated on your live profile right away. Make sure you fill everything out to make your profile as complete as possible.

Manage your videos

Videos are crucial to making your profile stand out. College coaches are going to want to see you play in order to evaluate if your a good fit for their program. After selecting the "Video" tab, you will see the below interface where you can add a new video, or edit existing ones. You can add as many video links as you'd like.

We natively support YouTube, Hudl, and Vimeo embeds, but you can add any link you like with the 'other' option.

How to add a new video

Click the "Video" tab in the top left portion of your screen
Click "Add Video" in the upper right of the videos section
Select your video type (YouTube, Hudl, Vimeo, or other)
Set a title
Set the URL (double-check that is is accurate)
Optionally you can add a description
Click "Save"

After you click "Add Video" the following form will appear where you can complete steps 3-6 above.

Once everything looks good, click "Save" and your video will be added.

How to edit a video

Click the pencil icon on any video card
Update details in the form
Click "Save"

Manage your events

The events tab is for creating upcoming events that you will be attending. An event could be a tournament, showcase, combine, camp, or anything else. The goal here is to share where you will be so that a coach viewing your profile can know where to watch you play.

How to add a new event

Click the "Events" tab in the top left portion of your screen
Click "Add Event" in the upper right of the videos section
Set the event name
Set the event date
Optionally set the location, url, and info
Click "Save"

After you click "Add Event" the following form will appear where you can complete steps 3-6 above.

How to edit an event

Click the pencil icon on any event card
Update details in the form
Click "Save"

Manage your academic information

Clicking the academics tab will allow you to edit your academic information such as your school, gpa, test scores, and eligibility numbers. Make any updates to this data and then click the "Save" button at the bottom to apply them to your live profile.

Manage your athletic information

Clicking the athletics tab will allow you to edit your academic information such as your position, gpa, height, and weight. Make any updates to this data and then click the "Save" button at the bottom to apply them to your live profile. This section also contains sport-specific stats. If there is an important stat for your sport that we currently do not include, let us know.

An example of what the athletics edit section looks like for a soccer player:

Manage your references

The references tab is for adding any coaches (or others) that can speak to a college coach on your athletic ability. You can add as many references as you'd like. Make sure to include their contact information so that coaches can contact them. An added bonus is that you can add testimonials from the reference.

How to add a reference

Click the "References" tab in the top left portion of your screen
Click "Add Reference" in the upper right of the videos section
Set the reference name, email, phone number, and relationship
Optionally add their testimonial
Click "Save"

After you click "Add Reference" the following form will appear where you can complete steps 3-5 above.

How to edit a reference

Click the pencil icon on any reference card
Update details in the form
Click "Save"

Manage your accolades

The accolades tab is for adding any athletic or academic achievements that you've earned. Things like team mvp, first team all league, honor roll, etc.

How to add an accolade

Click the "Accolades" tab in the top left portion of your screen
Click "Add Accolade" in the upper right of the videos section
Set the accolade name, year achieved, and optional description
Click "Save"

After you click "Add Accolade" the following form will appear where you can complete steps 3-5 above.

How to edit an accolade

Click the pencil icon on any accolade card
Update details in the form
Click "Save"

Manage your contact information

The contact tab is for adding your email, phone number, social profiles, and your coach and parent contact information. Its key coaches have a way to contact you so make sure you have this filled out! Make any updates to this data and then click the "Save" button at the bottom to apply them to your live profile.

Manage profile settings

The settings tab has a few controls related to the visibility and privacy of your online profile. By default, your profile and contact information will be public, but you can update those here if you'd like to either completely turn off your profile or hide your contact info. Make any updates to this data and then click the "Save" button at the bottom to apply them to your live profile.

How to share your online profile

The easiest way to share your online profile is to copy the profile link from the profiles tab.

Click the "Profile" tab in the sidebar navigation
Click "Copy link" under one of your profile
Paste the profile in an email, tweet, Facebook post, iMessage, etc

You can also click the "View" link to view your online profile and then copy the link from there.

Adding a Second Profile

If you are a dual-sport athlete, you can create a second profile on ProductiveRecruit.

Click the "Profile" tab in the sidebar navigation
Click "Add New" button on the top of the screen
Fill out your sport and position for your new profile and click "Create Profile"
Edit the profile as you normally would