Being prepared for an interview is vital to the success of the practice search process. Part of the preparation is practicing how to answer the questions during the interview. Here are some examples of interview questions and how to respond.
Q: Why do you want to change employment?
A: Don’t give them a horror story about your current employer. No one wants to hear negative stories. Negative stories in interviews make the person who is telling them seem negative. Instead give a generic answer such as: “I am looking for professional growth.”
Q: What do you wish to change about your present position?
A. This is another question where you dontyvant to present negative information. Frankly, interviews are not the place for much, if any, negative information. A good response could be “I’m looking for more inpatient world’ if you’re interviewing for a position which involves inpatient work and you’re currently doing more outpatient work.
Q. What are your professional goals?
A. Your goals should jive with the goals ofthe practice, e.g. to help grow the practice, to make patients satisfied with their visit, being active in the community. Therefore, to respond successfully, you must do your homework to find out what the practice’s goals are. This may not be available as is but you can make deductions about it from your initial conversation with the practice and the website. For example, the practice physician may have talked with you on the phone about how the practice just added a tluro suite. Given this expense, its no doubt a concern ofthe practice to pay offthis expense so their goal is to build the interventional referral base. Professional goals can be: patient education, to become Board Certified, to become a partner.
Q. What would a colleague say about your strengths and weaknesses?
A. This is another trick question. Most interview questions are seeking information which the answers indirectly provide the essence ofthe interviewee’s character and values. For example, you might respond to this question that your yveakness is that you’re impatient. Rather than say that you’re impatient, its better to say that you strive for perfection and that at times you become impatient with yourself when trying to get something done on time and well.
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