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27-2022.00 - Coaches and Scouts


Instruct or coach groups or individuals in the fundamentals of sports for the primary purpose of competition. Demonstrate techniques and methods of participation. May evaluate athletes' strengths and weaknesses as possible recruits or to improve the athletes' technique to prepare them for competition. Those required to hold teaching certifications should be reported in the appropriate teaching category.


Key Facts
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Bright Outlook
Career Details
Green Job
Career Details
Current Employment
250,600
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Forecasted Employment
265,400
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Change in Employment
+14,800
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Change in Employment %
+5.9%
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Tasks
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Tasks
The tasks listed below can be performed to prepare you for a career in this field.
Core
  • Plan, organize, and conduct practice sessions.
  • Plan strategies and choose team members for individual games or sports seasons.
  • Adjust coaching techniques, based on the strengths and weaknesses of athletes.
  • Instruct individuals or groups in sports rules, game strategies, and performance principles, such as specific ways of moving the body, hands, or feet, to achieve desired results.
  • Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of opposing teams to develop game strategies.
  • Evaluate athletes' skills and review performance records to determine their fitness and potential in a particular area of athletics.
  • Keep abreast of changing rules, techniques, technologies, and philosophies relevant to their sport.
  • Monitor athletes' use of equipment to ensure safe and proper use.
  • Explain and enforce safety rules and regulations.
  • Explain and demonstrate the use of sports and training equipment, such as trampolines or weights.
  • Arrange and conduct sports-related activities, such as training camps, skill-improvement courses, clinics, and pre-season try-outs.
  • Provide training direction, encouragement, motivation, and nutritional advice to prepare athletes for games, competitive events, or tours.
  • Contact the parents of players to provide information and answer questions.
  • Coordinate travel arrangements and travel with team to away contests.
  • Counsel student athletes on academic, athletic, and personal issues.
  • Perform activities that support a team or a specific sport, such as participating in community outreach activities, meeting with media representatives, and appearing at fundraising events.
  • Monitor the academic eligibility of student athletes.
Supplemental
  • Plan and direct physical conditioning programs that will enable athletes to achieve maximum performance.
  • File scouting reports that detail player assessments, provide recommendations on athlete recruitment, and identify locations and individuals to be targeted for future recruitment efforts.
  • Develop and arrange competition schedules and programs.
  • Serve as organizer, leader, instructor, or referee for outdoor and indoor games, such as volleyball, football, and soccer.
  • Select, acquire, store, and issue equipment and other materials as necessary.
  • Negotiate with professional athletes or their representatives to obtain services and arrange contracts.
  • Teach instructional courses and advise students.
  • Hire, supervise, and work with extended coaching staff.
  • Keep and review paper, computerized, and video records of athlete, team, and opposing team performance.
  • Identify and recruit potential athletes by sending recruitment letters, meeting with recruits, and arranging and offering incentives, such as athletic scholarships.
  • Oversee the development and management of the sports program budget and fundraising activities.
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Knowledge
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Knowledge

The items listed below are organized into sections that contain knowledge useful for pursuing a career in this field. Each section also contains a "Percentage of Importance" statistic that shows how relevant an item is to the occupation.
 Education and Training
  • 77%
    Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
 English Language
  • 74%
    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
 Administration and Management
  • 72%
    Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
 Psychology
  • 71%
    Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
 Customer and Personal Service
  • 70%
    Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
 Communications and Media
  • 65%
    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
 Personnel and Human Resources
  • 63%
    Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
 Public Safety and Security
  • 62%
    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
 Computers and Electronics
  • 61%
    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
 Clerical
  • 60%
    Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
 Therapy and Counseling
  • 57%
    Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
 Mathematics
  • 56%
    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
 Sales and Marketing
  • 55%
    Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
 Transportation
  • 52%
    Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
 Sociology and Anthropology
  • 50%
    Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins.
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Tools
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Tools
The tools listed below include machines, equipment, tools, and software that is useful for individuals who are interested in this career.
 Field sports equipment
  • Baseball catching gloves
  • Field hockey sticks
  • Football training dummies
  • Football training sleds
  • Regulation footballs
  • Regulation soccer balls
 Personal communications device accessories or parts
  • Communications headsets
 Air transportation support systems and equipment
  • Cyclical variations in adaptive conditioning CVAC pods
 Watches
  • Digital stopwatches
 Cameras
  • Digital video cameras
 Audio and visual equipment
  • Digital video disk DVD players
 Skating and ice hockey equipment
  • Figure skates
  • Ice hockey skates
  • Ice hockey sticks
  • Speed skates
 Computer displays
  • Interactive whiteboards
 Computers
  • Laptop computers
  • Personal computers
  • Tablet computers
 Indicating and recording instruments
  • Motion analysis equipment
 Racquet and court sports equipment
  • Regulation basketballs
  • Regulation volleyballs
 Physical education classroom equipment
  • Speed measuring radar guns
 Track sports equipment
  • Track and field hurdles
  • Vaulting poles
 Computer data input devices
  • Weighlifting analysis equipment
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Technology
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Technology
The technologies listed below include machines, equipment, tools, and software that is useful for individuals who are interested in this career.
 Network applications software
  • Bloomz
  • Edmodo
  • ParentSquare
  • Web browser software
 Development software
  • C++HOT
 Educational or reference software
  • Edpuzzle
  • Edulastic
  • Nearpod
  • Schoology
  • Seesaw
 Content authoring and editing software
  • Evernote
  • FacebookHOT
  • Flipgrid
  • Google DocsHOT
  • Graphics creation software
  • Microsoft ExcelHOT
  • Microsoft PowerPointHOT
  • Microsoft Publisher
  • Microsoft WordHOT
  • Pear Deck
  • Scheduling software
  • Screencast-O-Matic
  • Screencastify
  • Video editing software
  • Website creation software
  • YouTubeHOT
 Business function specific software
  • Google Classroom
  • Google DriveHOT
  • Microsoft OfficeHOT
 Information exchange software
  • Google Meet
  • GroupMe
  • Microsoft OutlookHOT
  • Twitter
 Industry specific software
  • Motion analysis software
  • Statistical software
  • Video analysis software
 Data management and query software
  • Online registration software
  • Performance database software
 Utility and device driver software
  • Video file conversion software
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Certifications
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Certifications
The certifications listed below are useful to pursue if you are interested in a career in this field.
 Specialty
 Advanced
 Core
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Licensing
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Licensing
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All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
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