Career Guides
Plain-language guides for audiology, hearing aid and hearing clinic careers: the daily work, training and certifications, pay, and the next step up.
What an audiologist does, where audiologists work, the AuD degree and license it takes, audiology specialties and pay — a career guide to audiology.
What a hearing instrument specialist (hearing aid specialist) does day to day, where they work, licensing, pay and how to get hired in hearing care.
Audiology assistants perform delegated testing, hearing aid and office tasks under an audiologist's supervision. See duties, settings, entry routes and jobs.
What a patient care coordinator does in a hearing clinic: scheduling, recalls, payments and records, and how to get hired at the front desk.
What pediatric audiologists do, where children's audiology teams hire, and how the ABA's PASC specialty certification works — a career guide for audiologists.
What educational audiologists do in schools, who employs them and how to become one — a career guide to school-based audiology.
What a vestibular audiologist does, the balance tests they run, where balance-lab jobs are, and how to earn the ABA's vestibular specialty certification.
What cochlear implant audiologists do, where they work, and how audiologists build careers in implant candidacy, device programming and monitoring.
What medical audiologists do in ENT, hospital and academic settings: diagnostic testing, vestibular and implant care, and the credentials employers expect.
What an industrial audiologist does: hearing conservation testing oversight under OSHA's rule, STS review, employers, CAOHC credentials and routes in.
What a VA audiologist does, how federal hiring works through USAJOBS and GS-0665, and how VA, military and DoD civilian audiology careers compare.
What an audiology extern does in the fourth-year AuD placement: paid vs unpaid sites, day-to-day work under supervision, and turning the year into a job offer.
What hearing practice owners do, how ownership differs from employment, and the paths into owning an audiology or hearing aid practice.
What a hearing aid sales representative does: territory accounts, training clinicians, employers, licensing questions and moving from clinic to industry.
What a hearing aid apprentice does, who hires trainees, how long an apprenticeship lasts, and how to find a sponsoring licensee on the road to licensure.
What hearing aid technicians do, where repair, lab and clinic techs work, the closest pay data, and how the role differs from a licensed dispenser.
A hearing conservationist performs the hearing tests OSHA requires for noise-exposed workers. See the CAOHC certification route, employers and pay context.
What a newborn hearing screener does in the hospital nursery, who employs them, OAE vs AABR screening, training, and how to get hired in this role.
What an audiology practice manager runs: staff, schedules, revenue cycle, inventory, compliance. Plus manager vs director titles, career paths and pay.
What an audiology billing specialist does: hearing care claims, eligibility, denials and patient balances — plus the Medicare rules and certifications involved.