Ohio State Buckeyes

Meyer touts appeal of hiring football players at OSU football job fair

Published May. 31, 2015 1:29 a.m. ET

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Urban Meyer might be biased, but he makes a good case when it comes to the appeal of hiring a football player for a "real world" job.

"Who doesn't want to hire a guy who knows about selflessness, being a part of a team, commitment, time management and most importantly, solving issues in front of 30 million people on television, if that's how many watched our game with Oregon," Meyer told reporters in Columbus prior to the Ohio State football job fair Friday. "Or 110,000 people when our guys go to work on Saturday. Everybody wants to hire those guys."

The university said in a news release 57 businesses and organizations sent representatives to what Meyer has made an annual event and an extension of his "Real Life Wednesdays."

Among the companies represented at the job fair were JPMorgan Chase, Quicken Loans, Kroger, Kellogg, Bob Evans, ESPN, the State Highway Patrol, IMG and Nike.

Paul Franklin, a representative from New York Life said via the team news release, "We like athletes and former military personnel because they are disciplined, regimented, they know how to get over failure quickly and they keep moving forward."