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This profession can take a toll on your emotions. Have you ever let your emotions interfere with your ability to perform your job?

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Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

The interviewer wants to know if you consider yourself to be an emotionally driven person. Talk to the interviewer about your emotions and if they have ever affected your productivity at work. Remember that almost everyone is an emotional creature to some degree, and the interviewer understands this. Being an emotional person shows you have compassion and empathy. But, you do not want it to interfere with your ability to perform your job.

Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

"Everyone is emotional to a certain degree, and I consider myself kind-hearted and open. A healthcare career can be emotional at times. However, I choose to focus on the positives and have never let my emotions interfere with my ability to perform my job. For instance - if we are close to losing a patient, I will focus on the positive memories rather than the illness. This mindset has consistently allowed me to continue with a productive shift no matter the emotions that come my way."

Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

"This is a great question. We've all had those tough cases. A child dies, a patient yells at you, or you must give someone a cancer diagnosis. I believe it is professional to take a few minutes after an encounter like that and let those emotions come and go. I cope with these emotions by telling myself that it's not my story; it's the patient's story. I think it's okay to be moved by someone else's experience, but I don't need to make it mine. By keeping this mindset, I can keep my emotions from interfering with my ability to perform my job."

Krista Wenz

Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.

You want to let the interviewer know that you have emotions, but you keep them to yourself while working to avoid interfering with your job. Describe how you keep your feelings from affecting your productivity.

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35Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital Interview Questions & Answers

1.Working in the healthcare industry requires a strong amount of compassion. Do you consider yourself a compassionate person?

2.At Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, we seek to hire individuals who want to spend their career with us. Would you consider yourself dedicated to a career with our organization?

3.This profession can take a toll on your emotions. Have you ever let your emotions interfere with your ability to perform your job?

4.Tell me about your healthcare-related education and training, and how it has prepared you for this position.

5.Reflecting back on your career up to this point, what would you consider your proudest moment?

6.What is your patient care philosophy?

7.Before Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital can offer you the position, you must be able to pass a drug screen and full criminal background check. Will you have an issue passing either of these?

8.Stanford Health Care requires our team members to have strong organizational skills and attention to detail. How do you ensure that your work is properly organized and highly accurate?

9.At Stanford Hospital, we pride ourselves on the ability to work together as part of a larger team. Talk about a great team that you were a part of in the past. What made the team great and what role did you play on the team?

10.Many people will say that a career in healthcare is a 'thankless job'. How do you stay motivated and engaged, even on the days when you feel your work is not appreciated?

11.Have you ever been involved in ordering medical supplies, maintaining inventory, or other types of healthcare-related administrative duties?

12.Stanford Hospital prides itself on excellence through a commitment to doing our best at all times. To ensure you would do this if hired, how do you best prepare yourself to come to work ready to provide excellent care every day?

13.Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital seeks to hire those with strong problem-solving skills. When were you able to successfully resolve a problem in the workplace?

14.When have you shown a willingness to learn a new method or new approach to solving a problem?

15.How would you describe your personality?

16.Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital is proud of our diverse workforce. Are you accustomed to working with diverse groups?

17.Do you prefer to work in a team-based position or individually?

18.Talk about a time you had to deliver bad news to a patient or colleague. What approach did you take and was it effective?

19.Tell me about yourself.

20.What part of your healthcare career brings you the most stress?

21.Are you familiar with Stanford Hospital's C-I-CARE philosophy to approaching patients? Why is an approach like this important?

22.If Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital hired you today, what would you accomplish first?

23.Think about a difficult boss, professor, or coworker. What made them a challenge to be around? And, how did you successfully interact with this person?

24.With the ongoing changes in the healthcare industry, how do you keep your knowledge up-to-date?

25.What type of work environment do you dislike working in?

26.In your opinion, what makes you a great problem solver?

27.At Stanford Hospital, we pride ourselves on being one of the premier academic institutions in the west. Do you have experience working with students in the medical field?

28.What is your greatest weakness and what are you doing to turn that weakness into a strength?

29.Why do you think you will be successful in this role with Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital?

30.Do you think it is possible to be a good team member, yet disagree with the leader occasionally?

31.Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital was initially looking for someone with 5 years' experience in a similar role. Considering you have just 2 years' experience, would you be willing to accept this position at a lower salary?

Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital Mock Interview

This profession can take a toll on your emotions. Have you ever let your emotions interfere with your ability to perform your job?

35Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital Interview Questions & Answers

1.Working in the healthcare industry requires a strong amount of compassion. Do you consider yourself a compassionate person?

2.At Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, we seek to hire individuals who want to spend their career with us. Would you consider yourself dedicated to a career with our organization?

3.This profession can take a toll on your emotions. Have you ever let your emotions interfere with your ability to perform your job?

4.Tell me about your healthcare-related education and training, and how it has prepared you for this position.

5.Reflecting back on your career up to this point, what would you consider your proudest moment?

6.What is your patient care philosophy?

7.Before Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital can offer you the position, you must be able to pass a drug screen and full criminal background check. Will you have an issue passing either of these?

8.Stanford Health Care requires our team members to have strong organizational skills and attention to detail. How do you ensure that your work is properly organized and highly accurate?

9.At Stanford Hospital, we pride ourselves on the ability to work together as part of a larger team. Talk about a great team that you were a part of in the past. What made the team great and what role did you play on the team?

10.Many people will say that a career in healthcare is a 'thankless job'. How do you stay motivated and engaged, even on the days when you feel your work is not appreciated?

11.Have you ever been involved in ordering medical supplies, maintaining inventory, or other types of healthcare-related administrative duties?

12.Stanford Hospital prides itself on excellence through a commitment to doing our best at all times. To ensure you would do this if hired, how do you best prepare yourself to come to work ready to provide excellent care every day?

13.Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital seeks to hire those with strong problem-solving skills. When were you able to successfully resolve a problem in the workplace?

14.When have you shown a willingness to learn a new method or new approach to solving a problem?

15.How would you describe your personality?

16.Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital is proud of our diverse workforce. Are you accustomed to working with diverse groups?

17.Do you prefer to work in a team-based position or individually?

18.Talk about a time you had to deliver bad news to a patient or colleague. What approach did you take and was it effective?

19.Tell me about yourself.

20.What part of your healthcare career brings you the most stress?

21.Are you familiar with Stanford Hospital's C-I-CARE philosophy to approaching patients? Why is an approach like this important?

22.If Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital hired you today, what would you accomplish first?

23.Think about a difficult boss, professor, or coworker. What made them a challenge to be around? And, how did you successfully interact with this person?

24.With the ongoing changes in the healthcare industry, how do you keep your knowledge up-to-date?

25.What type of work environment do you dislike working in?

26.In your opinion, what makes you a great problem solver?

27.At Stanford Hospital, we pride ourselves on being one of the premier academic institutions in the west. Do you have experience working with students in the medical field?

28.What is your greatest weakness and what are you doing to turn that weakness into a strength?

29.Why do you think you will be successful in this role with Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital?

30.Do you think it is possible to be a good team member, yet disagree with the leader occasionally?

31.Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital was initially looking for someone with 5 years' experience in a similar role. Considering you have just 2 years' experience, would you be willing to accept this position at a lower salary?

32.After reading the job description, what do you like most about this position?

33.Are you willing to work a flexible schedule rotating with 2nd and 3rd shifts?

34.Do you speak any foreign languages fluently?

35.How do you handle a dispute with a coworker or supervisor?