I'm not sure how my interview went?

[Neonatal_RRT]

So, as per my name - I'm not actually a nurse, I'm a respiratory therapist. The market is heavily saturated with rt's, so competition everywhere is tough. As far as the interview process and how things work, Nurse & RT stuff is pretty much the same. Maybe a few pt care questions may differ, but that's about it. I'm going crazy over an interview, and wanted to know what others think.

I had an interview at THE top hospital in my state yesterday, I want to work there so bad. It's a teaching hospital, with numerous areas I would love to work in. I would have to relocate, but it's worth it.

I graduated top of my class, tutored for my program, 3.5 gpa, first to pass boards blah blah. I couldn't land a job at first because the places I did clinicals at had no jobs available. I'm having to go 100+ miles away to look for job. I basically have to know someone hiring to get a job or have outstanding clinical skills shown in clinicals - which is how I have a prn position now. My hospital is likely going to close soon, since it's in a rural area and the business is not good.

I think I did relatively well in the interview, but I left feeling - not so great.

1. I made small talk before and after the interview, I was relaxed and not uptight like I was prior to the interview.

2. I prepared, and was ready/reheorificed all but 1 questions that was asked.

3. They kept me for over an hour, which I would think is a good sign as I didn't ramble and knew my answers.

4. They went over the benefits package and training/orientation info with me prior to asking questions ( I felt like this was standard)

5. The interviewers were laughing/cutting up with some of my answers. I work PRN at a rural hospital, and some of the things I do on the job right now they don't do anymore, but reminisced about the good ole days.

6. I dressed the part. I'm super OCD about that. wrinkle free black suit, white shirt & pearls. Filed down nails & no polish, makeup was as minimal as possible, and my hair back in a low pony since my hair is too short to put it up high.

7. They kept getting interrupted, because they were trying to schedule someone in a different building (it was for that shift, it was 5:30+ PM at that time - for evening shift)

I know taking time away is bad, but it seemed emergent since it needed to be done right then and all supervisors were in the interview.

8. Made comments they hadn't wrote that much in a while. Not sure if that's good or bad thing?

9. The male interviewer went into a lot of depth about the questions I had. What a typical day is like, ECMO ect. He spent a long time answering my questions.

10. They told me they didn't know if I would get on full time and would I settle for PRN, I was upfront I Would be relocating - but was assured that I would likely have something full time by the end of the year.

I felt like I was getting mixed signals, the manager kept wanting to talk to me - asking my my purse ect. One of the interviewers was kind of pushing me out. I'm not sure if that was because he knew they had someone else coming in or if he didn't like me.

[Violet_roses]

It sounds like it went really well for you. Do you feel any better? It sounds like you were super prepared. Maybe the one interviewer that wanted to finish quick because he/she already made their mind up about you and wanted to finish other tasks they needed during the day.

How did you know what questions to reheorifice??