Your college career in football is soon ending, and you are moving on to a school to get a Masters Degree. It would be wise to try to find a school that has positions for student fellowships as assistant coaches, maybe as an assistant quarterback coach, or an assistant defensive tackle coach, etc. If this can happen, then you will have your foot in the door for the first of your college football coaching jobs. Even if you are unable to land a paying job, if you can get your foot in the door by volunteering, then do it. As the years progress, maybe you will be able for that to move into a paying position.
Networking is the key to helping find college football coaching jobs. If you are just doing volunteer coaching, you will have access to some of the inside information from other coaches and the publications that they get that would have the available coaching positions. Sometimes just word of mouth among the coaches would help you. If you have done a good job to impress your head coach, he might make a personal reference to some of his friends for you. It is so important to have and keep those connections.
Another step in the college football coaching jobs search would be using the web. There are several different sites that post open coaching positions. It would be a good idea to keep watch on these web sites, but don’t count on them solely, because there probably are not too many open coaching jobs posted in this manner.
Surely, you have some places in mind where you would like to coach, or you can ask for recommendations from your coaches. These are the colleges that you will want to contact with a resume and a cover letter. This should be sent to the Athletic Director of the college or university. In your resume, be sure to list your experience coaching, your experience playing football, your academic experience, and your community volunteer experience. You want to make sure that you point out that you are a well rounded person. If you have teaching credentials, that is a plus, so be sure that is included in your resume. After you have sent your resume and cover letter, about two weeks later place a personal phone call just to ask if they got your letter and to see if they might be having any openings.
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