Pro practiceHead of Sports Science practice interview
Setting sports science strategy, governing athlete data and leading an integrated team that turns evidence into performance decisions. Practise the 6 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- Lead
- 20 minutes
- 6 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This executive interview examines how you lead science across a sporting organisation rather than how many technologies you know. The panel will expect a clear strategy, strong research judgement, responsible athlete data practices and evidence that your team improves real coaching and medical decisions.
How to prepare
- Outline how you would audit current staff, methods, technology and decision needs before setting priorities.
- Prepare examples of stopping, adapting or scaling a performance science initiative based on evidence.
- Review how you assure testing reliability, consistent definitions and secure access to athlete data.
- Practise presenting a complex finding as a clear choice for a coach or executive.
- Consider how you would allocate a constrained budget across people, research and technology.
Common mistakes
- Treating the purchase of technology as a strategy.
- Making causal claims that the available evidence cannot support.
- Collecting athlete data without a defined decision, owner or access control.
- Describing science, medicine and coaching as separate departments with competing goals.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
6 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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