Blog · Breadcrumbs, part 1
9 August 2026 · Australia

Let's be real, you don't know
what roles to search for (yet).

There's a step before Seek you might not know about.

The short version

If you're searching Seek for non-clinical roles and getting nowhere, it's because you don't know what to search for yet. There's a step before that. Sit down and audit what you've been part of that sits outside the "I'm a clinician" box, the stuff that wasn't in your JD and nobody asked you to do. Write down what you did, why, and what changed because of it.

Look at the handful together and the similarities are your trail of breadcrumbs.

Below is the friend who put me onto this without realising, the questions to ask about each crumb, and how to turn "I write documents" into a line you can put in a job application.

When I was playing around with the idea of Post-MDT I reached out to a few of my friends still practising to ask them where they would start if they decided to escape their clinical career, and the way one of them responded was exactly how I felt before I pivoted.

She said she'd had a growing sense, over years, that physio just wasn't the right fit for her. She'd done a few days shadowing at a private practice out of curiosity, but all that did was confirm she wanted out of the profession, not just out of the hospital.

But she had zero idea where to go for advice, someone had suggested she'd be a good fit for a traineeship that she sent her CV off for, and was really just waiting to see if a position came up. Later in our chat she apologised for being slow replying, because she was flat out writing training manuals for her daycare's management committee.

And that's the bit I wanna highlight. She mentioned that "extra curricular" stuff in passing - I don't think she realised that's the exact stuff that shows how transferable our skills are.

So before you spend more time mindlessly searching on Seek (cos let's be real you don't really know what roles to even search for) sit down and audit what you've been part of that sits outside the "I'm a clinician" box. Start with the last couple of years and think about what you've done either at work or outside it. HINT: it's likely stuff that wasn't in your JD or asked of you by the [insert your version of daycare committee]

For each of them, you want to write down:

Then go back through and get specific about what the outcomes were. Take my friend writing the training manuals:

That's how you can turn a task you probably think is no big deal into something you can point to in a job application. Not "I write documents", more like "I wrote the onboarding manuals that train every new starter across a team of [X]".

Once you've got a handful written down, look at them together and see if there's any similarities - that's your trail of breadcrumbs.

Your breadcrumbs are the things you get pulled towards doing that aren't strictly clinical without anyone asking. Then dig a little deeper: which of those breadcrumbs left you energised, and which drained you? Both lists matter, cos the drained list will save you from applying for the wrong roles.

Next: what your breadcrumbs are actually telling you.

This first went out to Post-MDT subscribers on 9 August 2026. You can read the original edition in the archive, or get the next one in your inbox.

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