In this video, I'd like to talk to you about a
really useful #hack that can help you to prepare
for your next job interview.
Right now.!
There is generally a bit of a gap between lodging
your application and then going in for your interview in
medicine, particularly for some annual training posts.
So we're going to use that gap to our advantage
today and we're going to do that by using all
the effort that you put into making your CV or
resume to help you with that interview challenge.
Hello, I'm Dr. Anthony Llewellyn, I'm the Career Doctor 💼🩺👨‍⚕️.
I'm a real doctor who knows a scary amount about
the job process.
So let me help you manage your career right here
on YouTube.
So you've just reviewed your CV or resume, you've made
your cover letter.
If you're required to do that or filled in the
online criteria and you press the button and submitted for
that next dream job in medicine, what do you do
next
Well, of course you take a bit of a breather
and a bit of a break, but after that, the
next thing is preparing for the interview.
So the interview is crucial to the process of most
medical job application while CVS and resumes and cover letters
and references do and should count much of the final
decision making occurs around the panel meeting together.
And when does the panel meet at the interview Of
course.
So your interview is likely to be a few weeks away, even
some months away after you've submitted the application.
So here's something I recommend you can do right now
to get started with your preparation.
And it's about practicing talking about yourself in a good
way.
Yes, that's right.
Get comfortable with talking yourself up.
This is important because when you get to the interview,
the panel are looking for someone who is confident and
can tell them why they are the best person for
the job.
They want to hear examples from you about how you
solved the sort of problems in the past that they've
seen or how you've risen to challenges that are facing.
You can effectively provide them with that sort of information
without feeling comfortable about talking about your achievements.
And that doesn't necessarily come naturally to most of us.
So this all gets down to an issue in selection,
which is called the past behavior approach.
When you go to interview selection training these days, which
all interview panel members should do, one of the things
that they first talked to you about is this idea,
this concept about asking questions around past behaviors.
Why Because past behavior predicts future behavior and it's far
better asking for an example then our hypothetical response to
a question.
So a lot of the questions that you will get
at the interview, we'll be asking you to provide examples,
questions like, can you tell us how you've demonstrated excellent
verbal communication skills in the past or question like give
us the situation where there was conflict in one of
your teams and what did you do personally to resolve
this
These are all examples of past behavior questions.
So you need to be prepared for this situation.
And one of the best ways to be prepared is
to have plenty of examples to fall back on automatically.
So obviously this involves you practicing your talk and presentation
and you can certainly practice some of this in time
just by yourself.
But you should also be practicing with feedback so that
the feedback you get helps to improve you and make
you better.
So this could be as simple as videoing yourself and
watching it back, but perhaps far better than that is
to send that video to a trusted friend or mentor
for some feedback.
This is actually the technique that I use with my
coaching clients and I do actually recommend thinking about doing
it with a coach because I have seen some very
well intended people give feedback, but the wrong sort of
feedback if they're not experienced at what they're doing.
Anyway, I talk in other videos about effective ways of
practicing, but the tip that I wanted to leave you
with today is this one, so you've spent so much
time and effort getting a CV into the best possible
shape that you can to represent you as a candidate.
Why not get a bit of extra value out of
it By now, you'll have lots of great examples in
your CV of how you've achieved something or contributed in
a really meaningful and significant way.
What I recommend doing now is to go through your
resume again, highlight all the great bits marked down at
least three paths, achievements that make you really proud.
These will be the ones that when you talk about
them, you'll show passion to the interview panel.
And now once you've done that, start practicing telling the
story of these examples.
So for example, if one of the achievements that's made
you most proud was getting the medicine prize in year
four, how would you go about talking about this in
the interview
How would this be useful as an example Well, given
that example, it's likely in this situation that firstly you
are extremely passionate about medicine.
Seemingly you would have worked really hard to master that
subject.
And thirdly, perhaps you sought some guidance from other people
about how to best prepare.
So you used other resources to make your achievement.
These are all positive actions, which if told correctly in
an interview show that you might just be the right
candidate to face up to similar challenges in the future
in that job.
So that's my tip.
Use your CV for interview prep.
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