How to Answer: Do you prefer working with children or adults?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a Speech Pathology job interview.
18. Do you prefer working with children or adults?
How to Answer
For this question, it is important to know the position that you are interviewing for and catering your response to the job you are applying for. If the role focuses on children, say children. Express that you enjoy working with adults if it is focused this way. Talk about why that is the population you like serve and your motivation for that.
Written by Heather Douglass
Entry Level
"Coming into my first job out of school, I am hoping to work with an adult population. My motivation to enter the field goes back to watching my grandmother work with a SLP after she had been diagnosed with ALS. Seeing how her treatment early on after the diagnosis helped her live a much fuller life at the end was very inspirational to me and I hope to be able to bring that joy to other families experiencing the same thing my family once did."
Written by Ryan Brunner
Answer Example
"I feel that I am able to work well with either; however, I prefer to work with children. This is why I would like to turn the focus of my experience and training toward the educational environment, as I would like the opportunity to consistently and daily be able to work with children. Speech is something that will continue to develop for every child as they grow, and for those that it does not come so easily too, I would like to be a part of the group that changes that. "
Written by Heather Douglass
Experienced
"Having worked with both populations throughout my career, my passion in the field was started in working with children. But, as I've worked more and more with the adult population, I'm ideally looking for an organization where I can work with both populations to keep my skills up on both ends. This position allows the opportunity to work with both children and adults and I think you'll find my well-rounded experience with both population to be an asset here."
Written by Ryan Brunner