Also called: Director of Recruiting, Player Personnel Assistant
Organizes a college team's recruiting: tracking prospects, planning visits, and managing social media outreach.
They build prospect databases, plan official visit weekends, and create graphics and messages for recruits. In football, recruiting departments now have whole staffs. It's a great path into college athletics.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in sports management or related field.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Sports Management, Communications, Marketing.
Growing faster than average. Recruiting departments have grown with NIL and the transfer portal.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI tracks prospects and automates outreach and social posts; visits and relationships with families still drive recruiting.
Classes: Business or DECA, Marketing, Statistics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 27-2022.
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