Coaches and Scouts
Job description
Coaches prepare and train athletes for athletic competitions.
Sports Scouts identify talented athletes and recruit them for professional sports teams.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Climatic conditions
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Humidity
- Uncontrolled ambient temperature
- Hazardous workplaces
Main tasks
Coaches
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of athletes or teams.
- Plan, develop, and execute training sessions and practices.
- Stimulate and develop the potential skills and abilities of athletes.
- Develop, plan, and coordinate the schedule and program of competitions.
- Motivate and prepare athletes or teams for competitions or games.
- Develop strategies and plans for games and competitions.
- Direct athletes and players during games or sporting events.
- Analyze or evaluate athlete or team performance and modify the training program accordingly.
Scouts
- Identify and recruit amateur athletes for a professional sports team.
- Observe and evaluate the skills and performance of prospective athletes.
- Prepare recruitment assessment reports and make recommendations.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2023-2027
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Job prospects for 2023-2027
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2022
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 46.4% Female
- 53.6% Male
- 46.4% Female
- 53.6% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
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NAICS 7143% of jobs
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NAICS 6133% of jobs
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NAICS 815% of jobs
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NAICS 5416, 54174% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6234% of jobs
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Others11% of jobs
All of Québec
-
NAICS 7143% of jobs
-
NAICS 6133% of jobs
-
NAICS 815% of jobs
-
NAICS 5416, 54174% of jobs
-
NAICS 621, 622, 6234% of jobs
-
Others11% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
University
Exercise science
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 49.7%
42.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 64.2%
29.9% of graduates pursue further studies
Also required
- Experience and technical knowledge of the chosen sport required.
Sometimes required
- Training in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is often required.
- Training in the use of the automated external defibrillator (AED) is often required.
Coaches
- Physical education training may be required.
- National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) certification may be required or an asset.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Teaching
- Oral expression
- Result evaluation
- Human resource management
- Judgment and decision-making
- Learning strategies
- Coordination
- Active listening
- Time management
- Critical thought
- Social perception
- Solving complex problems
- Systems evaluation
- Persuasion
- System analysis
- Active learning
- Reading comprehension
- Negotiation
- Service oriented
- Written expression
- Data collection
Abilities
- Verbal skills
- Speech clarity
- Oral comprehension
- Deductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Inductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Written expression
- Information organization
- Originality
- Written comprehension
- Idea generation
- Near vision
- Classification
- Visualization
- Distance vision
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Leadership
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Capacity to work in a team
- Commitment
- Tolerance to stress
- Vitality
- Creativity
- Respect others
- Pedagogical knowledge
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Work in the arts, culture, music, or leisure
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
Official name of the NOC 53201
Coaches
Job titles
- Professional athletes team coach
- Sports scout
- Basketball team coach
- Football team coach
- Hockey team coach
- Baseball scout
- Basketball scout
- Lacrosse scout
- Football scout
- Hockey scout
- Professional sports scout
- Baseball manager-coach
- Sports coach
- Head coach
- Coach
- Professional team coach
- Athletics team coach
- Amateur athletics team coach
- Baseball team coach
- Lacrosse team coach
- Amateur sports team coach
- Professional sports team coach
- National team coach
- Provincial team coach
- Baseball coach
- Bobsled coach
- Boxing trainer
- Lacrosse coach
- Cycling coach
- Football coach
- Gymnastics coach
- Hockey coach
- Junior hockey coach
- Athletic boxing trainer
- Luge coach
- Swim coach
- Figure skating coach
- Ski coach
- Soccer coach
- Tennis coach
- Volleyball coach
- Water-polo coach
- Athletics coach
- Luge instructor
Skill type
Art, culture, recreation and sport
Last update: February 14, 2024