A professional who evaluates athletic skills of professional athletes to determine fitness and potentiality for professional sports and negotiates with them to obtain services. Responsibilities include:

• Reviews prospects' exhibitions and past performance records.
• Negotiates with professional athletes to arrange contracts.
• Reports to team management results of scouting assignments, such as selection or rejection of professional athletes scouted and persons and areas sighted for future recruitment.
• May be designated according to type of sport in which engaged as Baseball Scout; Basketball Scout; Football Scout.