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The Most Important Questions Physicians Should Ask During a Job Interview

By Mitchel Schwindt, MD - November 6, 2018

To paraphrase Tony Robbins, the quality of your questions determines the quality of your life. Interviewing for a first attending job, considering a lateral move, or negotiating a contract all require poise, openness, and intuition to arrive at the desired end.  As physicians, we are experts at teasing out the details necessary to make a diagnosis. Digging deeper is critical to saving lives. The same applies to our futures.

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For the Best Job Interviews Physicians Should Ask Better Questions

Interview Readiness: How Job Seekers can Hedge their Bets

By Riia O'Donnell - August 24, 2018

Understand that if you’ve been scheduled for an interview, you already have the qualifications needed. No one wastes valuable recruiting time on unqualified candidates. You meet or exceed the minimum criteria for the opening, so the next steps are important to move you from candidate hopeful to new hire.

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Interview Readiness: How Job Seekers can Hedge their Bets

How to Ace the Interview for your First Nursing Job

By Patricia Bratianu RN PhD RH-AHG - April 17, 2018

There are a lot of nursing opportunities out there. However, competition can be fierce, especially for a new nurse. Stay positive. Some organizations prefer to hire new nurses. You can ace the interview by being well prepared.

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Advance Your Career and Education While Working in Healthcare

Strategies to Help You Win a Job Offer

By Susan Gulliford CPRW - October 31, 2017

Talented, qualified people fail to convince hiring managers to extend them an offer because they are unprepared for the interview. How you market your accomplishments determines whether your interview is a success. Just like a sales person practices a presentation ahead of time, it is important that you develop STAR and PAR stories before the interview...

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Strategies to Help You Win a Job Offer

Interview Techniques that Get Results

By Riia O'Donnell - August 22, 2017

With any opening, from the most entry-level unskilled position to top-tier clinician hires, interviewing is difficult. From each side of the desk, we’re revealing our best information and playing down

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Interview Techniques that Get Results

The Job Shadow Interview

By Angie Best-Boss RN - June 20, 2017

The position sounded perfect on paper. The HR director slid a contract across the desk and handed me a pen. The salary was fair, the bonus was enticing, and the hours were exactly what I wanted. And yet, I wasn’t sure I was ready to abandon the comfort of a large hospital system for a relatively new private clinic setting. It was a big leap. I put down the pen and asked, “Can I spend a day on the floor and job shadow?”

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The Job Shadow Interview

How to be confident and assertive during job interviews

By Jennifer Bouley - June 1, 2017

When it comes to interviews, we’ve all had our moments when we wished we had performed better than we did. What if it didn’t have to be that way - what if we could go into every interview knowing that we performed well and really caught the attention of the employer as a potential candidate to fill the vacancy? For successful interviews, it takes tact and communication to really get the attention of the employer. Interviews are your chance to “sell” your abilities to the employer as to why you are the top candidate of choice.

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How to be confident and assertive during job interviews

Good First Impressions Can Lead to Bad Hiring Decisions

By Susan Gulliford CPRW - May 25, 2017

Job interviews often fail to result in good hiring decisions. That is the finding of a recent analysis published on Bloomberg.com. Human Resources professionals and hiring managers frequently emphasize in-person interviews, so you might wonder why they actually waste time.

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Why Interviewing Fails

Prepare for your interview in 7 easy steps

By Allison Clark - April 27, 2017

Congrats! You landed the interview! Then panic sets in. Interviews can be nerve-wracking. There is a lot of pressure for you to perform well, share everything you need to in a limited time, and make

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Prepare for your interview in 7 easy steps

Five Reasons Why You Are Not Getting Hired

By MaryAnn DePietro - January 3, 2017

If you’re in the market for a new position, you might be working hard to land the right job. You think you’re doing everything right; after all, you’re networking, scouring online job boards, and fine-tuning

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Five Reasons Why You May Not Be Getting Hired