Dental School Mock Interview
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Question 8 of 40
We believe in the continual development of our students, both professionally and personally. What is your self-development plan?
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Nisha Yadav is a Talent Advisor & People Specialist with a focus on global talent attraction. Her earlier career experience includes HR and recruitment roles where she specialized in contract and permanent IT recruitment opportunities.
A self-development plan is important for anyone, especially an aspiring dental school student. If this university is going to invest in you and your future, they need to know that you have a plan in place for investing in yourself.
Nisha Yadav is a Talent Advisor & People Specialist with a focus on global talent attraction. Her earlier career experience includes HR and recruitment roles where she specialized in contract and permanent IT recruitment opportunities.
"I agree that self-development is crucial for continual growth and achievement as a future dentist. I am committed to investing in myself, and I do this by attending personal development workshops and meeting with my mentor monthly. My mentor was my dentist growing up in my hometown, and she helped inspire me on this path."
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Before your dental school interviews, think about how you are working to improve your hard and soft skills to one day become a thriving dentist. Some ideas for self-development that you can consider discussing are listening to an inspiring podcaster, attending personal development workshops, spending time volunteering in a capacity related to your career goals, or reading books associated with success.
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I am in class for English speaking, which is useful for people who speak English as second language. It was fun and motivated because I get to know different type of people with different backgrounds. Also, the more I practice, the more I get better communication skills.
I am reading a book called My Morning Routine. I love this book because it gave me ideas to have effective mornings for success.
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It's wonderful that you are working so hard to be successful in everything that you set your mind to do! I have offered a slight reword, below. I hope you find this to be helpful practice in addition to your English speaking classes :)
"I am in a class for English speaking, which has been useful as English is my second language. The class is fun and motivating, and it allows me to meet people from different backgrounds. The more I practice my English, the better my communication skills become. For personal development, I am reading a book called My Morning Routine. This book presents great ideas for successful morning routines from accomplished people all around the world."
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My self-development plan for my gap year is to continue shadowing dental clinics to learn more about the field and especially to improve my communication skills with people of diverse backgrounds. Also, from my love of learning languages, I learned Chinese pronunciations from Chinese songs and I plan to study conversational Chinese with the hope of being able to speak some basic Chinese in the future.
Marcie's Feedback
Awesome! This is a strong answer because you connect your self-development plans with your career aspirations. Excellent! Also, any interviewer will be impressed by your desire to learn new languages.
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My self-development plan is to seek out leadership opportunities that will foster further development of both my intrapersonal and interpersonal skills. The most recent leadership opportunity I sought out was a preceptorship in a physiology lab. Some of my duties include giving weekly clinical application presentations and assisting the teacher's assistant in creating interactive activities for students. Public speaking is a personal weakness of mine, so I decided this would be a great opportunity to work on these skills.
Jaymie's Feedback
Great job! This sounds like a well-thought-out plan.
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