Sports Science Job Options

Sports Science: Which route for you? So you’re enrolled in a sports science degree and wondering where this exciting subject is going to take you. It is normal at this stage to either; a) have NO idea what sports science…
Sports Science: Which route for you? So you’re enrolled in a sports science degree and wondering where this exciting subject is going to take you. It is normal at this stage to either; a) have NO idea what sports science…
My favourite and, I think my most discriminating sports science practitioner interview question is the plainly simple, “How do you improve performance?” It is deliberately vague, to allow a candidate to flourish or stall; it’s simplicity is both…
An increasing trend in sports science job interview is for the interviewers to ask some questions about you. There are no right of wrong answers here, you have to be your genuine self, because otherwise you will look like…
“Clarity affords focus.” Thomas Leonard The sports science job interview is fully underway now and your tightrope walking and Y type answers have held the attention and impressed so far. The interview panel will certainly have the…
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” Lao Tzu The interviewing begins and the selectors welcome you. There are reams of work written on polite small-talk (“Where are you based?” etc), handshaking (research says avoid…
This blog is part of a series about interviewing for applied sport science, if you missed last week’s intro, here it is. “We’re generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.” Daniel Kahneman Woah…
If you put ‘job interview’ into Google – it will return a google number of articles about some principles or methods of how to ace it (if you put “sports science jobs” in too, you might not get much luck…
This week’s topic, in my humble opinion, is the most neglected subject area in the Sports Science University education system*. If the evidence that I refer to is indirect I apologise, but in the sports science graduate population I…