Sector overview
Typical job profiles
- Fitness centre manager
- Outdoor activities/education manager
- Personal trainer
- Sport and exercise psychologist
- Sports administrator
- Sports development officer
Useful online resources
- Careers in racing
- Careers in Sport & Exercise Sciences (BASES) - includes downloadable careers guide
- Careers in Sports Engineering (ISEA) - includes Ph.D. & job vacancies
- Future Fit - personal training courses
- National Register of Personal Trainers
- Skills Active - the sector skills council for active leisure and learning
- SportScotland - list of sports governing bodies recognised by Sports Councils
- Street League Charity - supporting youth unemployment through sport
Outdoor recreation and sports camps
- Barracudas Activity Day Camps
- Blue Dome
- Hostelling Scotland
- Mountain Training - awarding body network for mountain skills
- Outward Bound Trust
- PGL
- Rockley Watersports
Job sites and specialist recruiters
- Health Club Management
- LeisureJobs
- Leisure opportunities
- SportScotland
- Sports Management
- The FA
- UK Sport
Professional bodies
- British Activity Provider Association (BAPA)
- British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES)
- Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport & Physical Activity (CIMSPA)
- Institute for Outdoor Learning (IOL)
- International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA)
- Mountain Training Association (MTA)
- Play Scotland
- Society of Sports Therapists
- Sportscotland - national agency for sport
- UK Sport