# Coaches and Scouts

> Instruct or coach groups or individuals in the fundamentals of sports for the primary purpose of competition. Demonstrate techniques and methods of participation. May evaluate athletes' strengths and weaknesses as possible recruits or to improve the athletes' technique to prepare them for competition. Those required to hold teaching certifications should be reported in the appropriate teaching category.

- **SOC code:** 27-2022.00
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/roles/role-27-2022-00
- **Also known as:** Basketball Coach, Coach, Football Coach, Track and Field Coach, Baseball Coach, Cross Country Coach, Gymnastics Coach, Soccer Coach
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap (how codifiable the work is), not jobs lost or a forecast. Every figure below is traced to a named public dataset.

## What this work is

**Core tasks** (O*NET):
- Plan, organize, and conduct practice sessions.
- Provide training direction, encouragement, motivation, and nutritional advice to prepare athletes for games, competitive events, or tours.
- Adjust coaching techniques, based on the strengths and weaknesses of athletes.
- Instruct individuals or groups in sports rules, game strategies, and performance principles, such as specific ways of moving the body, hands, or feet, to achieve desired results.
- Plan strategies and choose team members for individual games or sports seasons.
- Monitor the academic eligibility of student athletes.
- Counsel student athletes on academic, athletic, and personal issues.
- Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of opposing teams to develop game strategies.
- Coordinate travel arrangements and travel with team to away contests.
- Plan and direct physical conditioning programs that will enable athletes to achieve maximum performance.
- Evaluate athletes' skills and review performance records to determine their fitness and potential in a particular area of athletics.
- Identify and recruit potential athletes by sending recruitment letters, meeting with recruits, and arranging and offering incentives, such as athletic scholarships.

## Skills, tools, capabilities

**Knowledge, skills & abilities** (O*NET, highest importance first):
- Instructing _(transferable_skill)_
- Oral Expression _(ability)_
- Speaking _(essential_skill)_
- Learning Strategies _(essential_skill)_
- Monitoring _(essential_skill)_
- Oral Comprehension _(ability)_
- Reading Comprehension _(essential_skill)_
- Active Listening _(essential_skill)_
- Critical Thinking _(essential_skill)_
- Social Perceptiveness _(transferable_skill)_
- Judgment and Decision Making _(transferable_skill)_
- Speech Recognition _(ability)_

**Skills in demand:**
- Instructing _(Specialized Skill)_
- Learning Strategies _(Specialized Skill)_
- Speech Recognition _(Specialized Skill)_
- Social Perceptiveness _(Common Skill)_
- Reading Comprehension _(Common Skill)_
- Critical Thinking _(Common Skill)_
- Active Listening _(Common Skill)_
- Time Management _(Common Skill)_
- Systems Analysis _(Specialized Skill)_
- Information Ordering _(Specialized Skill)_
- Complex Problem Solving _(Common Skill)_
- Active Learning _(Common Skill)_

**Tools & technology:**
- C++ _(hot technology)_
- Facebook _(hot technology)_
- Google Docs _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Excel _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Office software _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Outlook _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft PowerPoint _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Word _(hot technology)_
- Bloomz
- Edmodo
- Edpuzzle
- Edulastic

## AI exposure & outlook

- **AI task-overlap index:** 51st percentile (Moderate) across all occupations — composite of current-era exposure studies (ai-exposure-index-v1).
- **Overall AI exposure (Felten et al.):** 51st percentile (Moderate) — source: felten_aioe.
- **LLM task exposure, γ (OpenAI / Eloundou):** 45th percentile (Moderate) — source: eloundou_gamma.
- **AI assistant applicability (Microsoft):** 58th percentile (Moderate) — source: microsoft_applicability.
- **Frey–Osborne (2013, historical computerization estimate):** 8th percentile — kept separate from current-era studies.
- **Remote-capable (Dingel–Neiman):** yes — task structure, not who actually works remote.
- **Projected employment (BLS 2024–34):** 6.4% growth (About average); 41.8k annual openings; 306.5k → 326k jobs.
- **Pay & employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** median $45,920; 250,940 employed.

## How people actually use AI here

Anthropic Economic Index — measured AI conversations mapped to this occupation's tasks:

- **Automation vs augmentation:** 29% automation, 55% augmentation (usage-weighted).
- **Autonomy median:** 4.0 (higher = AI acts more independently).
- **Dominant collaboration mode:** learning.

**Tasks most handed to AI here:**
- Instruct individuals or groups in sports rules, game strategies, and performance principles, such as specific ways of moving the body, hands, or feet, to achieve desired results. _(2.2% of measured AI use; learning)_
- Provide training direction, encouragement, motivation, and nutritional advice to prepare athletes for games, competitive events, or tours. _(1.3% of measured AI use; task iteration)_
- Plan and direct physical conditioning programs that will enable athletes to achieve maximum performance. _(1.1% of measured AI use; task iteration)_
- Plan, organize, and conduct practice sessions. _(0.5% of measured AI use; task iteration)_
- Explain and demonstrate the use of sports and training equipment, such as trampolines or weights. _(0.5% of measured AI use; learning)_
- Teach instructional courses and advise students. _(0.4% of measured AI use; directive)_
- Explain and enforce safety rules and regulations. _(0.4% of measured AI use; learning)_
- Evaluate athletes' skills and review performance records to determine their fitness and potential in a particular area of athletics. _(0.3% of measured AI use)_

**Example prompts (honest phrasings of the tasks above — starting points, not endorsed instructions):**
- Help me instruct individuals or groups in sports rules, game strategies, and performance principles, such as specific ways of moving the body, hands, or feet, to achieve desired results.
- Help me provide training direction, encouragement, motivation, and nutritional advice to prepare athletes for games, competitive events, or tours.
- Help me plan and direct physical conditioning programs that will enable athletes to achieve maximum performance.
- Help me plan, organize, and conduct practice sessions.
- Help me explain and demonstrate the use of sports and training equipment, such as trampolines or weights.

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **Anthropic Economic Index** (v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27)) — Anthropic. https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index
- **Microsoft “Working with AI”** (working-with-ai) — Microsoft Research. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- **AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE)** (Felten, Raj & Seamans) — academic. https://github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE
- **Frey & Osborne (2013)** (frey-osborne-automation) — academic. https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/the-future-of-employment/
- **Dingel & Neiman (2020)** (dingel-neiman-workathome) — academic. https://github.com/jdingel/DingelNeiman-workathome

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T21:00:32.945303+00:00. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-27-2022-00_