I am currently preparing for an interview this Monday, and have found a list of questions that I am preparing answers for preparation. I had a mock interview with a university career adviser, which helped me get feedback for some of the basic questions he asked me.Some Tips I took away:
- Treat a video interview like a real one, DRESS UP! Have a non distracting background, and make sure there is no noise either.
- Be confidant in yourself. Do not mumble, use "um" a lot, and keep a positive face.
- The SPAR approach should be used on certain situation questions. SPAR stand for Situation, Problem at hand, Action, Result. It's important to relate how the result affects who you are today.
I am really nervous, and getting all my thoughts out is helping to calm my nerves.
Here are just some questions I have found from several other blogs:
- What is the future of the dietetic profession?
- We have all had an experience either professionally or personally where we did not live up to the expectations of another. Describe a situation in which this may have happened to you including your reaction and how you were affected by this experience.
- The internship will require a large commitment of time, energy and financial resources over a 12 month period. Do you anticipate any problems achieving this level of commitment.
- Please describe a patient or client contact you have had in a nutrition related setting. Please describe the setting and tell us, what the most enjoyable aspect? What was the least enjoyable or most challenging aspect?
- Is there some unique quality or skill you will bring to us?
- How will you add value to our institution as an intern?
- Tell us about a time when you had to deal with an extremely difficult or unhappy customer, patient, or co-worker. How did you deal with the situation and what was the outcome? Would you do anything differently next time?
- Have you ever worked in an ethnically diverse setting? If so, please tell us what that experience was like for you.
- Summarize yourself in 3 words, with one word describing strength, weakness, and the third, up to you.
- What is the most difficult thing you have ever done or your greatest challenge in your life (not work related)? What/how did you overcome it and tell us what you learned from it?
- You receive a consult for diet education for a client. The client arrives and is not interested in making any dietary changes. How would you handle this situation?
- If an overweight teenage boy came to you to discuss his eating habits and his mother was controlling the conversation, how would you handle the situation?
- What three topics would you discuss with a newly diagnosed diabetic?
- If you were asked to give a presentation at a health fair on three current trends in nutrition, what would they be?
- If you had the opportunity to choose any topic and conduct research on it, what would you choose and why?
- What do you think of the idea of implementing BMI measurements in schools K-12?
- A man comes to see you for a consultation and he brings a new supplement that he bought at a natural foods store. The supplement claims to lower cholesterol, but you have never heard of the supplement before. How would you handle the situation.
- Name two current trends in the field of dietetics.
- What would you do if you were in charge of a kitchen during the food rotation and only half of your staff showed and there was only an hour before breakfast?
- What would you do if you found out someone completely disregarded your recommendation?
