Have you heard about travel occupational therapy (also called Travel OT or travel therapy)? Travel OT may sound too good to be true, but it’s not! Travel occupational therapists traverse the United States and work short-term contracts. Yes, you can get paid to travel the country and work. If you have an adventurous soul or …
Travel speech-language pathologists take short-term contracts across the United States to fill temporary staffing needs. As a travel SLP, one month you might be working in a skilled nursing facility in Virginia, and the next month doing home health in California. If this sounds like your dream job, you might wonder how to become a …
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Travel therapists face some unique tax concerns and often have many travel therapy tax questions. Working in multiple states, identifying and maintaining a tax home, and deducting expenses are some unique issues to travelers. Joseph Smith specializes in helping mobile professionals with tax preparation at Travel Tax. He is a former traveling respiratory therapist and …
As a travel therapy content creator, one of the most common questions I receive is “what are the pros and cons of travel therapy” While travel may seem glamorous, it is definitely not all unicorns and rainbows. It can be a hard path to take and one that takes some consideration and planning. Without further …
As a traveling therapist, you are working temporary job assignments. The lack of consistency in working with agencies and gaps between contracts could make health insurance an issue. In the United States, we rely primarily on employer-sponsored health insurance, which can be an issue when you constantly change employers. If you are curious about how …
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Calling all aspiring traveling therapists. If you are thinking about working short-term assignments in the travel therapy industry, you probably noticed that there are hundreds of staffing agencies. It can get very overwhelming to choose an agency. So how do you find the best travel therapy companies? Personally, I do not think that there is …
Traveling therapists are hired, sight unseen, to fill temporary positions. A travel therapy resume is often the first, and potentially only chance to impress an employer. Therefore, for many of us, a dream job could be made or crushed because of our resume. The good news is that there is a skill and craft behind …
As a travel therapist, one of the most critical steps in securing a new job is nailing the phone interview. Since you are switching jobs as frequently as every three months, you need to be able to sell yourself over the phone to land the job. In many cases, this initial phone interview is the …
So you’re a new traveling therapist. The world is your oyster and everything is an exciting new adventure. Until something bad happens. Maybe you end up in a terrible assignment that is questioning your ethics, or maybe you realize that the traveler working next to you is making $300 more per week than you are. …
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You want to be a traveling therapist but you don’t know how to find a travel therapy job. Well, you came to the right place to learn. I’m going to be breaking down the most popular ways to find travel therapy jobs in the United States. Find a travel therapy job through a recruiter Traditionally, …
Across the literature on this site, you frequently see the use of the term travel therapy tax home. You may be wondering what exactly a tax home is. A tax home is a concept best defined by the IRS. As a blogger, I’ll do my best to explain a tax home and provide you with …
If you’ve been thinking to yourself “Is travel physical therapy right for me” then you are in the right place. This website covers all things teaching you how to be a traveling therapist and you found the best place to start. “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious …
