Should I Travel Right After Graduating?

As you finish up your last rotation and begin to study for your certification exams or boards, the job hunt is coming to a full swing. For some aspiring healthcare professionals, their clinical rotations provided a clear path of which jobs to apply for. For others, it only makes the decision much more difficult. If you are not ready to make a permanent commitment and looking to explore as you build experience, consider traveling.

Get Top Pay

Healthcare travel contracts are necessary to fill urgent facility staffing needs. This leads to travelers getting paid top competitive rates, higher than your perm peers. Your hourly rate will be dependent on your specialty, contract location, and urgency of the facility’s needs. In addition to your hourly rate, travelers receive weekly tax-free stipends to account for your lodging and meal expenses. When traveling with Anders Group, your pay and benefits package consists of your hourly rate, stipends, travel reimbursements, license reimbursement, medical, dental, life insurance, and more starting from day one.

Gain Experience

Traveling gives you the opportunity to gain professional, life, and travel experience simultaneously. As a traveling healthcare professional, you will have the potential to work in various settings and environments that challenge your skills. You will come to learn that each assignment bring out different perspectives as you explore a new city, facility, department, and peers while learning new systems. Travelers are generally considered to be well-rounded and sought after permanent hires. When our Anders travelers begin to make the transition to perm, they are generally more confident in their decision and have more options available for them. Their previous assignments have helped strengthen their skills and gave them the confidence to recognize where the best permanent home for them is.

Networking

Contracting can serve as an ultimate networking tool. As a traveling healthcare professional, you have the potential to work with different healthcare professionals who may help to influence and guide your professional journey. As you meet and work with new people, you will be exposed to a variety of techniques that could help you realize your optimal workflow. With each assignment, you’ll gain new connections who could open you up to new professional endeavors or become lifelong friends and mentors.