How to Answer: In your career, what experience do you have in dealing with evolving technology on the job?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a LifeNet Health job interview.
6. In your career, what experience do you have in dealing with evolving technology on the job?
How to Answer
No matter the business or industry that you've spent your time working in up to this point in your career, chances are strong that you've had to deal with changing technology that has significantly impacted your work. In the field of healthcare and bio-medicine, rapidly changing technology has greatly impacted the ability to provide greater outcomes for patients in much more efficient manner. And while the evolving technology has greatly impacted patient results in a positive way, the people directly working with the changing technology have to maintain a positive and open attitude to change and your interviewer will be looking to hear that you have that approach by you giving a direct example of a time you had to deal with changing technology.
Written by Ryan Brunner on December 28th, 2018
1st Answer Example
"Through my nursing career, health charts and records have changed drastically over time from paper charts to full blown electronic medical records. Recently, my currently employer changed to a new EHR and the change was pretty drastic to our day to day duties with patients and our documentation. Where a lot of my colleagues were very negative about the change, I tried to focus on how the finished product would impact the patients and improve my work processes and those things were easy to see through a positive approach. I think my colleagues were just more scared of change for the sake of change and the training they would have to undergo in the switch to the new system. My positive approach and openness to learning something new really impacted my colleagues to take the same approach."
Written by Ryan Brunner on December 28th, 2018
2nd Answer Example
"In my career this far as a Sterile Processing Technician, I've had be welcoming and adaptive to equipment changes that have ultimately made our work safer for patients. Just last year, my organization purchased a new sterilizer and the new machine required hours of training and a few minor changes in processes for us in the sterile processing department. I kept an open mind to learning something new and it was a great experience. Can you elaborate on what technology changes your sterilization techs have seen here at LifeNet Health?"
Written by Ryan Brunner