Physical Therapists: where your skills can take you
Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and improve or correct disabling conditions resulting from disease or injury.
Most common qualification in Australia: a bachelor degree (59% of workers, 2021 Census) · Australian median pay for Physiotherapists: A$98,200 full-time (Jobs and Skills Australia) · AHPRA registration (Physiotherapy Board)
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Three moves that use what a physical therapist 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.
Occupational Therapists
🧰 Your current job already uses looking after customers and clients, reading people, sound judgement and teaching other people.
🎓 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 (86%).
🪪 AHPRA registration (Occupational Therapy Board)
🔎 Find degrees on Course Seeker ↗ (type the job's name there)
Assess, plan, and organize rehabilitative programs that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to persons with disabilities or developmental delays. Use therapeutic techniques, adapt the individual's environment, teach skills, and modify specific tasks that present barriers to the individual.
Clinical Nurse Specialists
In national shortage — employers actively looking (Jobs and Skills Australia, 2025)
🧰 Your current job already uses reading people, looking after customers and clients, sound judgement 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 (100%).
🪪 AHPRA registration (Nursing & Midwifery Board)
🔎 Find degrees on Course Seeker ↗ (type the job's name there)
Direct nursing staff in the provision of patient care in a clinical practice setting, such as a hospital, hospice, clinic, or home. Ensure adherence to established clinical policies, protocols, regulations, and standards.
Athletic Trainers
🧰 Your current job already uses reading people, sound judgement, looking after customers and clients and teaching other people.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is a master's degree or higher (54%).
🔎 Find degrees on Course Seeker ↗ (type the job's name there)
Evaluate and treat musculoskeletal injuries or illnesses. Provide preventive, therapeutic, emergency, and rehabilitative care.
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O*NET 30.3 — This service incorporates information from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JobMatcha has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
ABS ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update — Australian occupation tags are derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update correspondence tables (ABS, © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0), bridged to U.S. occupations via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SOC crosswalks (public domain). Only high-confidence (>= 0.8) one-to-one chains are shown; other mappings are withheld as 'Australian data unavailable'.
Australian pay and shortage lines: Jobs and Skills Australia.