Optometrists: where your skills can take you
Diagnose, manage, and treat conditions and diseases of the human eye and visual system. Examine eyes and visual system, diagnose problems or impairments, prescribe corrective lenses, and provide treatment. May prescribe therapeutic drugs to treat specific eye conditions.
Most common qualification in Australia: a bachelor degree (53% of workers, 2021 Census) · AHPRA registration (Optometry Board)
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Three moves that use what a optometrist already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians
In national shortage — employers actively looking (Jobs and Skills Australia, 2025)
🧰 Your current job already uses reading people, sound judgement, working in step with other people and solving difficult problems.
🎓 A degree. This job has its own registration and qualification, even at your level of study. The most common level in the US is a master's degree or higher (99%).
🪪 AHPRA specialist registration (Medical Board), after training with a specialist college
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Diagnose and treat disorders requiring physiotherapy to provide physical, mental, and occupational rehabilitation.
Chiropractors
🧰 Your current job already uses reading people, solving difficult problems, sound judgement and looking after customers and clients.
🎓 A degree. This job has its own registration and qualification, even at your level of study. The most common level in the US is a master's degree or higher (90%).
🪪 AHPRA registration (Chiropractic Board)
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Assess, treat, and care for patients by manipulation of spine and musculoskeletal system. May provide spinal adjustment or address sacral or pelvic misalignment.
Neuropsychologists
In national shortage — employers actively looking (Jobs and Skills Australia, 2025)
🧰 Your current job already uses reading people, sound judgement, solving difficult problems and looking after customers and clients.
🎓 A degree. This job has its own registration, and it asks for more study than your current job. The most common level in Australia is a postgraduate qualification (77%).
🪪 AHPRA registration (Psychology Board)
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Apply theories and principles of neuropsychology to evaluate and diagnose disorders of higher cerebral functioning, often in research and medical settings. Study the human brain and the effect of physiological states on human cognition and behavior. May formulate and administer programs of treatment.
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