Career Essay: A Career As A Scouting Assistant

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I am writing to you because of my interest of becoming a Scouting Assistant. Previously, I have been in contact with ____ over my time with different teams. Ever since I graduated from high school, I have been working towards this career goal. I fully understand that as a Scouting Assistant, that there will be less than glamorous tasks that need to be completed. Throughout my career, I have years of experience doing the grunt work such as washing laundry to picking up free agents from the airport. In a Scouting Assistant role, you have to put in mass amounts of data accurately into a database, cut up film, and execute your job under pressure. I have experience entering field data into breakdowns, putting in player’s information into numerous types of databases and have learned how to cut up player’s game film into XOs. As a sophomore, I had to learn all of our offensive signals in three weeks and had to step in as the live signaler in the middle of our Notre Dame game. …show more content…
As a senior at the University of Florida, I had the opportunity to have full responsibility over the advance scouting reports on our opponent’s defenses. I have worked as a lower level employee for six years and I completely understand that your work gains you the respect of your

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