How to Answer: What area of VR work do you find challenging? How do you try and improve upon those challenges?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor job interview.
14. What area of VR work do you find challenging? How do you try and improve upon those challenges?
How to Answer
Challenges can also be viewed as weaknesses. When answering this question it will be important that you relay to the interviewer what you learned from these challenges. Have you found that particular types of clients in the past have been challenging for you? Maybe managing the large workload you had at your last position was challenging.
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1st Answer Example
"One area I find challenging as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor is working with clients that are not interested in finding work. In the past, "‹I've found that I just have to work with these clients a bit longer than others. Pushing these individuals before they are ready to get out into the working world only makes them regress more. I've learned to be more patient and empathetic working with these types of clients."
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2nd Answer Example
"Working with individuals with criminal backgrounds has been challenging for me in the past. After spending time with these clients I get to know them as a person. I can see past the history but it is hard for employers to see the promise in them that I see."
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