What jobs are available in the sports sector?

Working in sports education usually allows you to enter the public service by becoming a sports educator in public institutions. However, this does not preclude qualified individuals from engaging in private practice.

When you master a sport or are particularly gifted in one or more sports activities, there is nothing to stop you from offering coaching services. The opportunities are very varied depending on the activity.

Sports medicine encompasses many other professions in addition to the physician. Nutritionists, physiotherapists and many other professions are in great demand today to ensure the health and well-being of athletes.

It is important to remember that you don’t have to be a sports fan to enjoy sports and that many fans like to follow the different events that take place, if only for entertainment. That’s where the media comes in, whether it’s radio, TV, social networks etc., and there are many of them recruiting.

Marketing is a multi-faceted industry that touches virtually every field, including sports. We can mention in particular the sports stores that offer all kinds of products for athletes, whatever their discipline. It goes without saying that this activity creates many jobs that are categorized among the sports professions.

We don’t always think about it, but event management is an integral part of the sports sector insofar as sports meetings and events must be organized by professionals to take place in an orderly and harmonious manner.

Many athletes are identified at an early age and trained to become excellent athletes in parallel with their education. To ensure their careers, guidelines are then created through the provision of school sports sections at the level of colleges and high schools, the “pôles Espoirs” or training centers offered by sports clubs.

In order to make the sports professions more accessible, the State provides forcertificates and diplomas to support the candidates’ file. Among others, there is the CPJEPS which does not require any particular diploma and corresponds to a CAP level. For those with a bachelor’s degree, we can mention the BPJEPS and, respectively, the DEJEPS and DESJEPS, corresponding to a bachelor’s degree +2 and bachelor’s degree +3.

When you want to become a professional in the sports sector, the STAPS program is one of the first choices for many young graduates. It offers a more versatile university education combining theory and practice with DEUST (2-year course), professional license (3-year course) and master’s degrees (5-year course).

In the sports sector, there are TFP or Titres à Finalité Professionnelle awarded by the different federations to those they consider deserving. Training courses of a few months to a few weeks can also occasionally offer participants CQP or Certificates of Professional Qualification.

INSEEC and the International University of Monaco INSEEC International University of Monaco, 2 schools of the OMNES Education Group, offers you 3 sectorial specializations in the world of sports:

• Marketing & Sports Events,
• Trade, distribution and retail of sports equipment
• Governance of sport and sport organizations.

Even with the emergence of numerous professions that revolve around sports, that of sports educator remains the most popular and accessible since it recruits at all times in both public and private institutions.

To become a sports trainer requires, for the professional, to master the discipline in which he works, but also all the most effective training programs to train his team. In addition to that, he must also be familiar with the various injuries that his discipline is likely to cause to his athletes, in order to avoid or treat them.

Private coaching is a natural fit for entrepreneurship. In order to be successful, the coach will have to know his field well in order to retain his clients by optimizing the results.

In general, the sports journalist will have a background in journalism or communications, but he or she will also need to have a good knowledge of the field of sports in order to excel in his or her work.

Some sports activities are more delicate in the sense that their practice often requires more preparation and assistance, especially for beginners. It is for this purpose that the profession of high mountain guide exists today, for example, or sports instructor in any other field.