How you choose which contact details to give can also impact how professional you come across as. Again we go over this in the How To Get Scouted Masterclass. Your contact details also assist the coach in selecting you if you have left the right clues. Remember that coaches / academy recruiters / scouts are busy people and get overloaded with playesr approaching them so you need to stand out from the crowd and make their life easier by providing the things they need to do a good job ad that includes providing your contact details in a way that it is easy for them to approach you and invite you to trials without breaking any legal obligation and safeguarding law. Within the How To Get Scouted Masterclass we walk you through the 6 main parts to your contact details and how best to lay them out. We explain all this and show you the clearest way to lay out your contacts so that they pass acceptable standards for clubs and academies.Īs with any CV you create, you need to put your contact details visible at the top of the page. You may not be aware of the details surrounding safe guarding best practice and law, but for professional football clubs, the recruiters will not deal with you unless they have the guardians point of contact. They need to be laid out exactly as we have demonstrated in the How To Get Scouted Masterclass kit so that they are easy to scan and cover the right legalities (particularly if you are an under 16 player).
This may seem obvious, but honestly we see a lot of cv’s without contact details!!! (yes, really!) and its not just about having them on there.