Soccer CV / Resume

[JCoupe]

I'm thinking about creating a soccer cv/resume as a referee, player, coach, and some management. I am requesting some advice and/or samples that you may have. Thanks!

[Jerzy]

You could just look at a couple of resume books to get ideas of layouts, but with the advent of the internet, how a resume looks is much less important now. (My wife's in Human Resources.)

Keep a lesson plan of your most recent season so you can show your "employers" your stuff. And it wouldn't hurt to get a couple of letters of recommendation.

[JCoupe]

I was thinking of splitting it up like.

Playing Experience: clubs / years / age group I played there.

Coaching Experience: ^ same except teams I coached, licenses, memberships

Referee Experience: leagues I've reffed in, current grade level

Management: position / duties

Should I include tournament championships, or just regular league championships??

I'm currently in the process of diagramming my training sessions to keep in my 'soccer folder'.

Letters of recommendation would probably be by an administrator?

Is there a need to put your coaching records?

Also, should I include rec or just keep select coaching teams?

THANKS

[Jerzy]

Letters of recommendation can be by anybody, but parents' recommendations may carry the most weight. Ask for more than you need, because if you ask three people for resumes, one will be no more than the J-was-a-good-guy variety and one person won't get around to it.

All coaching matters. Obviously if you are trying to get a select coaching position, you would want to highlight your select coaching and playing experience, but you should include all of it. And in the hyper competitive world of select coaching, tournament wins matter, do include them.

I don't know about coaching records. I guess, yeah, include them, but player development matters more, so if you are looking to quantify your success, better stats might be number of Div I scholarships (the holy grail of coaching success), number of lower level scholarship and players competing, and if you're new in the game, number of players starting for their HS teams.

HTH

[JCoupe]

Thanks.

I'm only 18 and I only have 2 years experience (last year with my father, and this year by myself) so I'm kind of new to this.

Currently I'm a select coach, looking at some premier openings.