Program & Career
Preparing For Your Next Coaching Interview
Fifty years of hiring and being hired, distilled into 215 pages. What the best-selling manual covers, and why philosophy comes before scheme.
Philosophy first
The best-selling manual in the library, Preparing, Interviewing and Pursuing Your Ideal Football Coaching Position, is built on a simple premise: before you can explain your scheme to a hiring committee, you have to be able to explain what you believe. The first sections deal with building the philosophy that everything else hangs off.
Written from both sides of the table
The information is an accumulation of experiences and opportunities from over 50 years as both an assistant and a head football coach. That matters, because assistant interviews and head coach interviews are different conversations, and the manual treats them separately.
215 pages of organisational detail
Coach Campbell's manual features 215 pages of information on the organisational skills to consider as you prepare for current and future opportunities — whether you are new to the profession or a seasoned veteran looking for new insight, thought and motivation.
It is not only about the next job
Much of what is in the manual is useful on the day you are not interviewing: how you structure a staff, how you set expectations, and how you organise a programme so that it survives a change of personnel.
Put it on paper
Every idea here is drawn from the coaching library — X-and-O diagrams, install progressions and the coaching points that make a scheme hold up.