- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who plans and directs training and recommends acquisition or trade of players for professional athletic team. Responsibilities include:
* Directs conditioning of players to achieve maximum athletic performance.
* Assesses player's skills and assigns team positions.
* Evaluates own and opposition team capabilities to determine game strategy.
* Coaches or directs coach, professional athletes to instruct players in techniques of game.
* Participates in discussions with other clubs to sell or trade players.
* May participate on team managed and be designated Coach-Player; Player-Manager.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages affairs of professional athlete by negotiating with promoters or others to settle contracts and business matters and directs training. Responsibilities include:
* Negotiates with team management and promoters to obtain favorable contracts for client (business manager).
* May prescribe exercises, rest periods, and diet to be followed by professional athlete.
* May direct athletic trainer in conditioning professional athlete.
* May give directions to protege in athletic techniques.
* May determine strategy to be followed by professional athlete in competition with others.
* May be designated according to type of professional athlete managed as Manager, Boxer; Manager, Wrestler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who evaluates athletic skills of professional athletes to determine fitness and potentiality for professional sports and negotiates with them to obtain services. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews prospects' exhibitions and past performance records.
* Negotiates with professional athletes to arrange contracts.
* Reports to team management results of scouting assignments, such as selection or rejection of professional athletes scouted and persons and areas sighted for future recruitment.
* May be designated according to type of sport in which engaged as Baseball Scout; Basketball Scout; Football Scout.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates and directs racing activities at racetrack. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with track management and studies prior racing and attendance records to plan types of races to schedule.
* Confers with officials of other tracks to plan racing dates to coincide with number of days allotted by state racing commission.
* Assigns workers to duties, such as inspecting entrants, starting, and judging races to comply with racing commission regulations.
* Observes workers performing duties to ensure compliance with commission rules and track policy.
* Approves or disapproves requests of handlers to change equipment on horses.
* Confers with veterinary personnel regarding horses unfit to race.
* Serves as member of judiciary board that exercises control over racing participants and makes decisions in accordance with state racing commission rules on such matters as validity of complaints and order of finishes.
* Writes reports to comply with state racing commission rules, such as recording and reporting all complaints, actions taken, penalties imposed, and voting record of board members.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of swimming pool staff to prevent accidents and provide assistance to swimmers, and conducts swimming classes. Responsibilities include:
* Assigns duties to lifeguards, locker room attendants, and clerical staff.
* Schedules swimming classes for basic and specialty techniques, according to enrollment, age, and number of instructors.
* Meets with employees to discuss and resolve work related problems.
* Completes staff evaluation forms reflecting information such as work habits, effectiveness in interpersonal relations, and acceptance of responsibility.
* Instructs individuals or groups in swimming classes, principles of water confidence, and lifesaving.
* Administers first aid, according to prescribed procedures, or calls emergency medical facility, when necessary.
* Determines chlorine content, pH value, and color of pool water at periodic intervals during day, using testing kit.
* Completes forms indicating time, date, and pool water test results.
* Routes forms to supervisor for evaluation and filing.
* Maintains required forms, such as time and attendance, inventory list, and program of facility activities.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects equipment of horses and riders in paddock at racetrack before each race to determine that equipment meets track and state racing commission specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Reads racing programs to schedule arrival of horses and riders in paddock area.
* Examines horse's equipment and rider's attire to assure compliance with racing specifications.
* Orders equipment changes to conform to racing rules.
* Refers requests for equipment changes to racing officials.
* Tells riders to mount and dismount.
* Signals winning horse and rider to winner's circle.
* Reports delays in paddock area and equipment changes to racing officials.
* Examines credentials to prevent unauthorized persons from entering paddock area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs activities at automobile or motorcycle racetrack. Responsibilities include:
* Determines qualifying order of vehicles for each race based on trial event results or by drawing numbers.
* Assigns starters to position on track.
* Controls traffic to ensure only authorized number of vehicles are in pit.
* Directs vehicles to assigned places in pit.
* Ascertains legality of pit stops according to rules set by sanctioning body authorizing race.
* Consults with scorers to resolve scoring disputes.
* Determines penalties to be assessed for rules violation.
* May inspect vehicles and drivers for safety equipment, such as seat belts, harnesses, and helmets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and arranges racing schedules and assigns handicapped weights to horses at racetrack. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes official workout and past performance records to arrange races between horses of equal experience and ability.
* Handicaps horse in each race by assigning weight it will carry, using knowledge of handicapping and based on data, such as age, sex, total winnings of horse, and distances of races won.
* Confers with track management personnel to plan types of races to schedule and to determine purse for each race.
* Reviews application requesting permission to enter and train horse for competition.
* Accepts application and entrance fee from owner.
* Registers names of persons having financial interest in horse.
* Reviews racing information to be published in newspaper, racing form, and daily racing program.
* Directs activities of workers engaged in duties, such as compiling racing information and assigning stable space.
* Records information regarding official racing result to keep file on each horse's ability.
* Records changes of ownership and submits report to track officials.
* May observe race to study ability and form of horse, verify selection of entries, and assignment of handicap weights.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who evaluates physical condition and advises and treats professional and amateur athletes to maintain maximum physical fitness for participation in athletic competition. Responsibilities include:
* Prescribes routine and corrective exercises to strengthen muscles.
* Recommends special diets to build up health and reduce overweight athletes.
* Massages parts of players' bodies to relieve soreness, strains, and bruises.
* Renders first aid to injured players, such as giving artificial respiration, cleaning and bandaging wounds, and applying heat and cold to promote healing.
* Calls physician for injured persons as required.
* Wraps ankles, fingers, or wrists of athletes in synthetic skin, protecting gauze, and adhesive tape to support muscles and ligaments.
* Treats chronic minor injuries and related disabilities to maintain athletes' performance.
* May give heat and diathermy treatments as prescribed by health service.
* Workers are identified according to type of sport.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes performance and instructs professional athletes in game strategies and techniques to prepare them for athletic competition. Responsibilities include:
* Observes players while they perform to determine need for individual or team improvement.
* Coaches players individually or in groups, demonstrating techniques of sport coached.
* Oversees daily practice of players to instruct them in areas of deficiency.
* Determines strategy during game, independently or in conference with other coach, professional athletes or head coach based on factors as weakness in opposing team.
* May be designated according to phase of game coached as Defensive-Line Coach; Pitching Coach.
* May be designated according to game coached as Basketball Coach; Football Coach; Swimming Coach; Tennis Coach.
Industry:Professional careers
