Identify and recruit potential athletes by sending recruitment letters, meeting with recruits, and arranging and offering incentives, such as athletic scholarships.

“Identify and recruit potential athletes by sending recruitment letters, meeting with recruits, and arranging and offering incentives, such as athletic scholarships.” is a supplemental task performed by Coaches and Scouts. Among the occupation's 28 rated tasks, workers place it 17th by importance (#12 most important). About 49% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Perform recruiting or hiring activities. in Staffing Organizational Units

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Plan, organize, and conduct practice sessions. · importance 4.6
• Provide training direction, encouragement, motivation, and nutritional advice to prepare athletes for games, competitive events, or tours. · importance 4.5
• Adjust coaching techniques, based on the strengths and weaknesses of athletes. · importance 4.4
• 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. · importance 4.4
• Plan strategies and choose team members for individual games or sports seasons. · importance 4.4
• Monitor the academic eligibility of student athletes. · importance 4.3
• Counsel student athletes on academic, athletic, and personal issues. · importance 4.3
• Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of opposing teams to develop game strategies. · importance 4.3
• Coordinate travel arrangements and travel with team to away contests. · importance 4.2
• Plan and direct physical conditioning programs that will enable athletes to achieve maximum performance. · importance 4.2
• Evaluate athletes' skills and review performance records to determine their fitness and potential in a particular area of athletics. · importance 4.2
• Monitor athletes' use of equipment to ensure safe and proper use. · importance 4.1
• Keep abreast of changing rules, techniques, technologies, and philosophies relevant to their sport. · importance 4.1
• Explain and enforce safety rules and regulations. · importance 4.1

See all tasks on the Coaches and Scouts page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-20118,
  title  = {Identify and recruit potential athletes by sending recruitment letters, meeting with recruits, and arranging and offering incentives, such as athletic scholarships.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-20118}
}