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Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.
Being flexible and handling change is a skill that all employers desire to see. Discuss with the interviewer your ability to approach a problem using new methods. Give a recent example, but spend more time highlighting the resolution rather than the problem.

Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.
"When our facility came under new management last year, many new methods and policies came into place. I learned some exciting new approaches to our challenges in patient care and customer management. I quite enjoyed the process."

Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.
"It's funny; they say people in medicine are 'lifelong learners.' But on top of that, we're in this digital revolution, and everyone has to learn new software all the time. I'm finally getting old enough to realize that it's difficult to be constantly adapting. My 75-year-old aunt telling me how to use my iPhone helped me appreciate that it's all about humility. Not WHO is teaching you, but if you are willing to learn. In the medical context, I just took an updated CPR course, and it went from the 15:2 compressions to continuous compressions, and I had to adapt to avoid my past way of thinking."

Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
Even if you do not adapt well to change, you want to assure the interviewer that you are open and willing to try new methods and approaches to solving a problem. If you are set in your way of doing things and are unwilling to adapt, the interviewer may pass you over for another candidate.

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I'm always eager to learn new methods to solve a problem. Last year we had an update in our software that prompts pharmacists to identify patients who are candidates for receiving ancillary immunizations such as pneumonia and shingles. I quickly learned to utilize this update to identify, educate, and administer to more patients.

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Your targeted example is exactly what the interviewer would be looking for. Good job.
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