The padel industry in the UK is growing faster than almost any other sport. New venues are opening every month, new brands are entering the market and hundreds of new padel jobs are being created across coaching, club management, operations and commercial roles. If you are looking to build a career in padel, there has never been a better time to be in the market.
But with more padel jobs come more applicants. Venues and operators who were once grateful for any qualified candidate are now receiving multiple applications for every role they advertise. That means your CV needs to work harder than ever to stand out.
Here is everything you need to know about writing a padel CV that gets you noticed, gets you interviews and gets you the padel job you are looking for.
Start With a Strong Personal Statement
The first thing a hiring manager reads on your CV is your personal statement — the two or three sentences at the very top that tell them who you are and what you bring. Most candidates waste this space with generic lines like “I am a motivated team player looking for a challenging role.” That tells a padel venue manager nothing useful.
Your personal statement should do three things immediately. It should tell the reader what you are — a Level 2 LTA padel coach with four years of programme delivery experience, for example. It should tell them what you have done — grown a junior programme from twelve to sixty players, or managed a team of six coaches across two sites. And it should tell them what you are looking for — a head coaching role at a premium padel venue where you can drive commercial performance and develop a thriving padel community.
Specific. Relevant. Concise. That is what makes a personal statement work.
Lead With Your Racket Sport Background
One of the most common mistakes candidates make when applying for padel jobs is leading with their padel experience rather than their broader racket sport background. The reality is that most UK padel venues are not looking for someone who has played padel for ten years. They are looking for someone with a strong racket sport foundation — tennis, squash, badminton — who understands how to coach movement, technique and tactical thinking at all levels.
If you have an LTA tennis coaching qualification, experience coaching junior programmes or a background in competitive racket sport, lead with that. Put it at the top, make it prominent and let your padel-specific experience support it rather than replace it. Your racket sport credentials are your strongest selling point for most padel jobs in the UK market right now.
Quantify Your Programme Delivery
Venues hiring for padel jobs are not just looking for good coaches — they are looking for coaches who can deliver programmes, retain members, develop junior pathways and contribute to the commercial performance of the centre. Your CV needs to show evidence of this with real numbers wherever possible.
How many players did your junior programme have when you started and how many when you left? What was your adult group lesson retention rate? How many new members did you bring into the club through your coaching activity? Did you design a beginner programme from scratch that is still running today? How many courts were you responsible for filling on a weekly basis?
Numbers make your experience credible and specific. “I delivered junior coaching sessions” tells a hiring manager very little. “I grew the junior programme from eight to forty-five players over eighteen months” tells them you can deliver results. For any padel job at management or senior coaching level, quantifiable outcomes are what separate the candidates who get interviews from those who do not.
Make Your Qualifications Impossible to Miss
This sounds obvious but a surprising number of candidates bury their qualifications deep in their CV or mention them so briefly that a hiring manager has to hunt for them. For padel jobs specifically, your LTA qualification level, your Coach Accreditation status and your CPD record are the credentials that tell a venue whether you meet their minimum requirements.
Create a dedicated Qualifications section near the top of your CV — not at the bottom. List each qualification with the issuing body and the date obtained. Include your current DBS certificate with the expiry date. List your first aid certification. If you have completed any LTA padel-specific training or CPD, list it here too.
For any padel job that involves working with juniors — which is the majority of coaching roles — a current DBS check is non-negotiable. Making a hiring manager wonder whether your DBS is current immediately puts your application at a disadvantage.
Show Commercial Awareness
This is the thing that most coaching candidates do not include and most venues desperately want to see evidence of. Padel venues are businesses. Court time needs to be sold, lessons need to be booked, members need to be retained and revenue targets need to be hit. The padel jobs that pay the best — head coaching roles at premium venues paying £35,000 to £45,000 a year — go to candidates who understand this and can demonstrate it.
Have you ever been responsible for selling lesson packages or membership upgrades? Have you managed a booking system or contributed to court utilisation targets? Have you created social media content that drove new enquiries to the club? Have you worked towards occupancy targets or helped launch a new programme that generated revenue?
If the answer to any of these is yes, it needs to be on your CV. Venues hiring for senior padel jobs are looking for coaches who think like business people, not just coaches who are good on court.
Include a Padel-Specific Skills Section
A dedicated skills section that specifically references padel is worth including, particularly as the sport is still relatively new and venues want to know your padel-specific competence. This section does not need to be long — four to six bullet points is enough.
Include things like your understanding of padel-specific technique and tactics, your experience coaching padel at different levels, your knowledge of padel court management and any familiarity with padel-specific booking systems or technology. If you have played competitively or achieved a padel-specific ranking, include it here. If you have coached internationally or worked with padel brands, mention it.
This section positions you as someone who has genuinely invested in padel as a specialism rather than someone who has simply added it to a tennis coaching CV as an afterthought.
Tailor Your CV to Each Padel Job You Apply For
The single most effective thing you can do to improve your CV’s performance is to tailor it specifically to each padel job you apply for rather than sending the same document to every venue. This does not mean rewriting your entire CV every time — it means reading the job description carefully, identifying the two or three things the venue is most looking for and making sure those specific things are prominent in your personal statement and experience section.
A head coaching role at a premium health club venue will prioritise commercial performance and member retention. A role at a new independent venue might prioritise programme building and community development. A coaching role at a university sports facility will prioritise junior and student engagement. The same experience looks different depending on how you frame it — and a CV that speaks directly to what a specific venue needs will always outperform a generic one.
Keep the Format Clean and Professional
The content of your CV matters most but the format it is presented in shapes the first impression before a word is read. For padel jobs as for any professional role, a clean, well-structured CV in a readable font with clear section headings and consistent formatting will always perform better than a cluttered, overly designed document.
Keep your CV to two pages maximum. Use a professional font — Arial or Calibri at 11 point is perfectly readable. Use clear section headings. Keep your bullet points concise and consistent. Use white space generously — a CV that is easy to read is a CV that gets read.
Avoid decorative templates with coloured sidebars, excessive graphics or unconventional layouts unless you are applying for a design or marketing role. For coaching and management padel jobs, clean and professional beats clever every time.
Get Your CV in Front of the Right People
Writing a strong CV is only half the battle. The other half is making sure it reaches the people making hiring decisions at padel venues. Generic job boards bury padel roles among thousands of unrelated listings and your application can disappear without trace.
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The padel industry is creating careers right now. Make sure your CV is ready when the right opportunity appears.