Mayo Clinic Behavioral Mock Interview
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Question 26 of 30
Besides vacation and holiday time, how many days were you absent from work last year?
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Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
The Mayo Clinic wants to hire a responsible, dependable healthcare professional who shows up to work when scheduled. The interviewer asks this question to evaluate your work attendance in the past year. If you called off work several times in the past year, they might hesitate to offer you the position unless your reasons were excusable.
Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
Focus on the exact number of days you missed work and why. If the interviewer deems your absence from work an excused and unavoidable reason to miss work, it will likely not be an issue. If you have several unexcused absences, they may disqualify you as a viable candidate.
Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
"I was not absent from work at all last year. I pride myself on staying healthy and rarely miss work because of an illness. I was not absent from work for the two years prior, as well."
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Almost none. I'm pretty healthy and don't think I even took a sick day last year. I used my vacation time in full and was present on the other work days.
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