Occupations Sports Agent Sports Market Scout

Manager
Training/educational Usually requires a Many employers Although most scouts
requirements bachelor’s degree in prefer for marketing have bachelor
sports management, managers to have a degrees in business,
with college bachelor’s degree sports management,
experience in classes preferably in or another related
involving Business business field, a
kinesiology, finances, Administration or college degree isn’t
and accounting. The Sports Science necessarily required
higher paid agents Marketing. Some for this job. People
will often obtain a organizations highly who have high
graduate degree. encourage sport’s knowledge of sports,
marketing like college athletes
professionals to go or coaches, are also a
back to college to good fit for the
obtain an MBA. The scouting position.
course curriculum
requires classes
involving economics,
business, marketing
(obviously), and even
sales.
Specific job roles & Responsibilities - Responsibilities – Responsibilities –
responsibilities Help handle financial direct marketing, study the best players
and legal matters for product placement, that suit the sport and
their professional advertising/branding, position they are
athlete clients. and even publicity looking for. They
Some duties included often spend a lot of
negotiating salaries Skills – marketing time on the road
and securing knowledge, need traveling, and even
contracts exceptional value a majority of
communication and their time meeting
writing skills, and an with the individual
in-depth level of player and their
knowledge when it families. Scouts are
comes to sports. also responsible for
doing vast amounts
of research in order
to determine which
player would be the
biggest asset to their
orginizations.
Job growth trends With a booming Marketing industry in Scouts are often
sports industry, the sports is predicted to placed into the same
sports agent industry category of coaches,
 is looking very grow slightly faster and this is because
promising. More than all professions. coaches (especially
athletes, especially For example, the in college) are the
the lower aged “BLS expects around biggest scouts for the
individuals who are a 13% growth for the organizations. In
seeking help from marketing managing conclusion,
agents. positions in the next according to the
decade” (Sports). BLS, the outlook for
coaches and scouts
between 2012 and
2022 is high, with the
field growing by as
large as 15 percent
Salary outlook Avg. - around Avg. – 115,750 Avg. – $28,630
$110,000 ($55/hr)
Beginner – $56,000
Pros and cons of the Challenges – Challenges- sports Challenges – Scouts
positions problems finding are a profession that are required to work
clients, hard seeking most people love, so in the field, traveling
money (good salaries finding a higher-level by plane, car, and bus
come from prof. job in this occupation to watch athletes
athletes), and clients can be quite difficult. play. These
may have behavioral As a result, rising up individuals spend
problems so not in the ranks occurs at weeks and even
getting along can a very slow rate. months away from
create issues Another challenge is home, as they are
that this field is almost always on the
Pros – agents can heavily dominated by road.
make a lot of males, leaving very
contacts, which can few opportunities for Pros – Although
be vital for females. scouts spend a lot of
advancements in time away, they get a
their careers. An Pros – essentially a chance to watch
example would be dream job for those some of the world’s
receiving tickets to sports lovers or future stars. With that
an NBA finals game athletes who cannot being said they get
annually because of land a contract. In into sporting events
ties. this job, employees for free, and even get
have the the chance to meet
opportunities to these selected
interact with fans, talented individuals.
teams, and even the
players.