How to launch your career in sport science (Episode 173)
A long conversation about how to actually break into sport science as a career — from undergrad through to professional. We cover:
- What it takes to become a learning machine
- How I stuffed up my first job interview
- Becoming a business partner at 22
- Creating content to build a following
- How to accept and give feedback
- The soft skills nobody tells you about
- Velocity-based training (of course)
- Creating and launching an app
This one is different from every other appearance on this page — it’s a career episode, not a VBT episode. SportsGrad’s audience is students and early-career practitioners trying to work out how people actually land jobs in this industry, so we spend most of the time on the unglamorous stuff: how you make yourself useful before you’re experienced, why the interviews you bomb teach you more than the ones you don’t, and the difference between collecting certificates and actually building a skill set someone will pay for.
The VBT and app-building sections come in near the end, as a case study in picking a niche and going deep on it rather than staying a generalist.
More on my background is on the about page, and the app we discuss building is Metric.