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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
Medical Science Liaisons need to have the ability to work with strong, dominant, and sometimes bullheaded personalities. These personalities can be found both in the internal stakeholders they work closely with and with the external key medical experts they work alongside. Your interviewer wants to know how well you work with others despite a difference in personality. Your ability to adapt to various people, regardless of a positive personality match, shows that you are a mature and professional MSD, even when factors are not entirely ideal.

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"In my current role, I have a team member who will sometimes scoff at other co-workers' ideas in meetings. To help creative spark, I knew I could not let this behavior continue. I approached this person to discuss our company culture and how his behavior disrupted the creative and innovative environment we always seek. It turned out that he did not want to work in our division as he felt the projects were too 'junior' for his experience. He ended up requesting and receiving a transfer. By initiating an open conversation with this person, we were able to uncover his need. We also met the needs of our team by protecting the positive culture we had worked so hard to create."

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Avoid extreme responses that include speaking negatively of others or naming people. Also, avoid telling the interviewer that you get along with everyone all the time. Most interviewers will interpret a cliche response like that as dodging the question. Focus on when your work personality or style was different from another person, but perhaps you still had to collaborate together. Discuss, in a positive tone, how you made it work!

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