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Happy National Athletic Training Month! Across the country, athletic trainers will be recognized with appreciation posts, posters, and well-deserved thank-yous. That visibility matters. Our profession plays a critical role in the health and safety of the athletes and workers we serve. But recognition alone doesn’t move a profession forward. This month, I’d encourage every athletic trainer reading this to take one intentional step to strengthen how athletic training is underst

Welcome to the 8th edition of the Athletic Trainer Finder Weekly Digest. This is the last newsletter before National Athletic Training Month kicks off, and to celebrate I’m going to start shifting toward more real-time updates. My goal is to update the board throughout the week so you’re seeing jobs as they actually hit the market. It may not be every single day, but I’m committed to making this the most comprehensive and useful tool out there for athletic trainers navigating

This week’s newsletter is brought to you by the To the Bone Sports Medicine Podcast. Hosted by Shelby Daly, DAT, ATC, CSCS, To the Bone features thoughtful conversations on the realities shaping athletic training and sports medicine today — from clinical practice and technology to career paths and the business side of the profession. Listen at   tothebonepodcast.com  or on your favorite podcast player. Welcome to Edition #7  of the Athletic Trainer Finder Weekly Digest. First

Welcome to another edition of the Athletic Trainer Finder Weekly Digest. This marks our sixth  weekly digest and our second edition in February . If you missed it, I also released the January Job Market Summary  last week, which broke down every position we tracked throughout the month. If you want a clearer pulse on where the market actually stands, not just where it’s advertised, that’s worth a read. This week’s job market was fairly ho-hum . A large chunk of postings lande

This report is for informational purposes only. It is intended to highlight trends and should not be used as the sole basis for legal or financial decisions. This is not a scientific study design and should not be treated as such. Navigating the job market as an Athletic Trainer often feels like trying to read a play without a playbook. To bring some transparency to the profession, we analyzed a dataset of 508 unique job postings  from January 2026. Whether you are looking fo

Welcome to February everybody! After a busy January of full-time listings, things definitely slowed down a little on the full-time front. However, there was a noticeable uptick in PRN and temporary positions out on the boards this week, particularly in college and secondary schools. This likely signals that schools that still have vacancies are looking to weather the storm through the rest of the year and look to try to fill those positions for 26–27 in the Spring and Summer.

It is hard to believe we have been doing this for a month. All of the support and interest has been truly humbling! This week the job volume didn’t let up, and we saw some interesting roles come out with California and Maryland leading the way! We tracked 140  new athletic trainer jobs across the market this week. One of those was intentionally excluded from the AT Finder board , which is why 139 roles are mentioned below. One of the biggest shifts this week was where the job

Happy MLK Day everyone. I hope you are all enjoying a day off today, but if you’re like me you’re probably working a game this evening. It is our Third Edition  of the Athletic Trainer Finder Weekly Job Digest ! This week’s job market was busy, but it wasn’t a smooth ride from start to finish. Early in the week, several postings came through that were honestly frustrating to read. Either no salary was listed, the salary listed didn’t line up with the credential and scope bein

And a bonus, the rollout of our new job board!   Welcome to the second edition of the Athletic Trainer Finder Weekly Roundup . First and foremost, thank you for the response to week one. The initial newsletter was put out to gauge interest and to see whether others felt the same way I did about the athletic trainer job market and the tools available to us. The answer was a clear yes.   By the numbers: more than 2,000 newsletter views , over 20,000 LinkedIn impressions , and r

Welcome to the very first edition of this weekly job digest!  For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on a project to study the Athletic Training job market. I wanted to move past the anecdotes we hear in the breakroom and actually track where the profession is heading, which settings are growing, and which employers are finally offering competitive pay. What started as a personal research project has turned into a weekly deep-dive that I’m excited to share with you all. As

It’s 9:00 PM on a Sunday. You should be relaxing, but instead, you’re an hour deep into a "scrolling hole." You’re toggling between Indeed, LinkedIn, and the NATA Career Center. You’ve spent the last 45 minutes filtering out "Personal Trainer" roles at the local big-box gym and "Physical Therapy Assistant" positions that don't require your expertise. You’re just looking for one thing: An actual Athletic Training position that respects your license. Then, you see it. A job tha