1. What are your educational qualifications? How many years of experience do you have in healthcare fields?
Today, most profession employers rely heavily on a person’s educational qualifications. The greater the sophistication of the job, the greater the importance of the educational qualifications.
In the critical positions of NHS jobs, the successful candidate must have the relevant educational qualifications as well as the required skills and experience.
When answering this question, describe your course work and related experience accurately, emphasizing each different topic you have studied.
2. What are your core competencies be, with reference to the medical field, specifically NHS Jobs?
It may be helpful to speak to your colleagues and others that know you well and can help you compile a definitive list of your medical related qualities. A few brief anecdotes, describing your putting these qualities to use would be very helpful as well.
3. Have you ever been through an emergency situation? What position did you handle during the emergency situation?
Review your experiences and select one or two of them, which portray you in the best light. Prepare your concise rendition, emphasizing your part; include in your answer what lesson you learned from the situation.
4. Do you consider yourself to be social? Can you tell us of a time when you used your social skills to help the patients?
A nurse has to be pleasant and lively as well as trained and experienced to look after patients. An ill-tempered nurse is every hospital’s nightmare, and would not find many options for gainful employment.
Since being pleasant and patient are key responsibilities of a nurse, there should be enough incidents where you have used your social skills to handle a medical situation.
Select the most impressive, and be sure to give a truthful and accurate description of the episode Remember, you must present yourself as a person who has all the required requisites for being good medical personnel.
5. Could you tell us of a time when you used your leadership skills to handle a situation?
’No’ is an acceptable response. There are all kinds of personalities that can be successful in the medical profession, leadership is optional. If you can tell of an incident where you successfully took charge, relate it in a succinct manner, without appearing arrogant.
6. What is the best aspect that you like about your job?
This is a question that you have probably thought about a great deal. Although there are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers, certainly responses that reveal your good qualities will be most prudent to speak of. Your concern for fellow human beings and desire to ‘interact with people and nurse them to good health’ should be among the factors you list.
7. What do you do to cope with stressful situations?
A: The interviewer wants to make sure you do not have an explosive temper.
8. Can you point to a task that required extraordinary diligence?
A: Your ability to focus on a task to completion, despite fatigue and distractions.
9. If you had to make a decision under time pressure, how would you prioritize?
A: Testing your temper and detail-orientation.
10. Have you ever had to investigate a case or discover facts in order to complete a task?
A: Your ability to work independently without management-intensive direction.
