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  • 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. 

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