Skip to main content

Post Interview Review

  • How do you feel the interview went overall? 
    • Overall I feel like the interview went pretty well. Of course there are questions that I wished I had answered differently, but overall I feel like it went well. 
  • How did you prepare for the interview?
    • I did a variety of things to prep for this interview. I read the articles that were provided by my professor prior to the interview. Most of them were really helpful and posed questions I had not thought about. Another thing I did to prepare was I thought back to the interview questions I had been asked during my interview for OT school and rehearsed my responses. I also researched cost of living in Memphis and CEU courses. 
  • What went differently than you expected?
    • The only thing that went differently than I expected was the types of questions I was asked. I feel like the questions I was asked were fairly basic and there were no questions that surprised me. I kinda wish I had been asked an off the wall question just to see how I could come up with a response on the spot in a low stakes situation to be better prepared for interviewing for a real job. 
  • What's something you would change if you could go through this process again (or something you'll do differently when you're in a real-life interview situation)?
    • Something I would do differently in a real life situation is to throughly research a speciality certification I want to attain. When I was asked this question during the mock interview, I completely blanked on the response I was going to give, so I just made something up. I knew I could get away with this because the person interviewing me was not an OT, so she had no idea what certification I was talking about in the first place. Next time I will throughly research a speciality certification and bring some notes on it to the interview. 
  • What's something you learned during this process that may be helpful to you as you prepare to enter the workforce as an OT practitioner?
    • Through this mock interview process I learned that I am interviewing the company just as much as they are interviewing me. It is important that I put my best foot forward in an interview, but I also need to have some questions to ask, even if most of them have been answered during the course of the interview. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What is the OTPF?

The OTPF stands for Occupational Therapy Practice Framework. It is composed of ideas, concepts, and philosophies that guide OT. It addresses domain of OT, the OT process, occupations, and client factors. The domain of OT is the areas in which OT's have a great wealth of knowledge and expertise.  This is what defines the focus of OT. Client factors, performance skills, performance patterns, context, environment, and activity demand are all under the domain of OT practice. Each part of the domain brings a different part of occupational therapy to the table.  The OT process is the actions that a practitioner takes when providing services that are client-centered and focused on engagement in occupation. This is what defines the delivery of OT. Throughout the process, occupation remains central. There is also collaboration with the client throughout the process.  Occupations are ordinary, part of daily living, and are often taken for granted. They can be special when the...
Post a Comment
Read more

Expanding on Theory

The Neuro-Developmental Treatment Frame of Reference is a theory that is used to analyze and treat posture and movement impairments based on kinesiology, the study of human movement, and biomechanics, the study of forces and mechanical laws and their effects on movement in living organisms. It takes into account planes of movement, alignment, range of motion (the degrees of movement that a client has), muscle strength, base of support, postural control, weight shifts, and mobility when making a plan for intervention. The goal is to get the client to engage in meaningful occupations, which is done through assuming that posture and movement impairments are able to be changed. This theory can be used with children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. According to this theory, to be functional means that the client would be able to engage in meaningful occupations. An occupational therapist would look at upper extremity movement, specifically: reaching, grasping, releasing objects, self ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Do's and Don'ts of Presenting

Presenting in front of any number of people is something I find extremely intimidating and very anxiety provoking. I do just about e verything I can to avoid talking to more than 4 people at a time. My senior year of college I took an online public speaking class to avoid speaking in public to a random group of people. As a result, I continue to struggle with presenting and unfortunately, online public speaking isn't an option in grad school. One of the topics we cover in our Leadership II class is how to best present yourself during speeches, projects or interviews. A resource we were given was titled "6 Ways to Look More Confident During a Presentation". I was intrigued. As I read the article my eyes were opened to just how much your body language impacts what you say. The article talks about how a group of people skilled in reading body language went to a tech entrepreneur competition and watched contestants body language and how it correlated to the scores they rec...
1 comment
Read more