How do you get a career in sports PT?
You're interested in working in sports, but you're not sure how to get started. In this video, Jenna and Phil discuss the steps that are helpful in achieving a professional sports PT career.
What advice would you give PTs about their careers who are looking for what’s next?
Whether you're a new graduate or have been working in PT for awhile, there are often questions that arise about what's next. In this video, Jenna and Phil discuss what they believe the "secret sauce" is in achieving career success.
Jenna: Hey Phil. I think a lot of students struggle with what setting they want to go into. So would you tell students that don't know what setting they want to go into or maybe like new grads that don't know exactly what they want out of their career or even other people that don't know what's next in their career. What advice would you give them?
Phil: That's a great question. I heard this commencement speech that just really articulated it really well. It was everybody tells you to pursue your passion, but frequently,
A. you don't may not know what your passion is or
B. you can't because you're in a certain setting, a certain place, certain time of your life, or you don't have the money to do it or the...
What do you do when you don't like your job and you feel stuck?
What do you do when you don't like your job and you feel stuck? In this video, Jenna and Phil discuss their ideas for bringing excellence to a job, even when you don't like it.
Phil: All right, Jenna, I've got a question for you. What if you're in the situation where you just hate your job, you hate what you're doing, but you don't have a way to get out of it right now? How do you bring excellence? We've talked about passion and things like that, but how do you bring that when your circumstance just sucks?
Jenna: So that's a hard question because like, if you don't know what's next, you don't have anything lined up, like what do you do? But I will tell you that from the amount of people that I've seen face this, the second that they decide that they are going to leave, things start to change and things become a little bit more tolerable. They can do things better and then something better does come. So I think like the first...
How do you answer questions about salary in a job interview?
Of all of the questions you have to answer in a job interview, questions about salary seem to be the most difficult. In this video, we discuss some of the fundamentals of answering those questions and demonstrate how to effectively answer salary questions.
Should I leave my current PT job?
Is physical therapy bad everywhere? We are asked this question frequently. In this video, we discuss our thoughts on how to evaluate whether or not a location is a good fit for you.
How do you know if a job is right for you?
When you're searching for a PT job, it's important to ask the right questions to find out if it is a good fit for you. We discuss the things that are important to find out during a job interview.
What would you tell yourself as a new PT grad?
If you could go back to 1 month into your first PT job, what would you tell yourself? In this video, we discuss what we would tell ourselves at that critical point in our PT careers.
Let's Talk About PT Salaries
Do PTs get paid enough? That question is seemingly always up for debate. In the latest video, Jenna and Phil have a frank discussion about PT salaries and how they compare to other professions.
Negotiating Your Salary
Dear New Grad PTs and PT Students,
I sat across from the owner of the company and he asked what I was expecting for a salary. The interview had gone well up until this point, but now I froze. I didn’t know what to say, I didn’t expect to discuss salary, let alone have to give a number I wanted.
I thought about it and gave a number that I thought was way higher than the typical offer. The next day I was offered the job and the salary I requested. We hadn’t negotiated or anything, I had just thrown out a number and they honored it.
I didn’t take the job, but I still wonder how much I left on the table by going first. When you are in an interview or a negotiation, you want to avoid going first. Here are ways to answer the “What kind of salary are you looking for?” question.
- I know you have a much better idea of the role and the expectations and I trust you will come up with a fair salary.
- I know that a lot more goes into the overall salary and I...
What is your biggest win this week?
When discussing our careers, we often only focus on big picture things and achieving huge goals. It's important to focus on the small wins we experience daily and weekly, too. After all, big goals are made up of small steps.
