Interview Questions for New Grad!!

[kogand]

Hi all!

I have been invited to go in for an interview at a local hospital as a new grad! I am super excited and extremely nervous. The recruiter who emailed me about the interview clearly stated it would be behavioural based. I have been coming up with good examples/stories to share for countless hours. I am now wondering if they may still ask scenario based questions (NCLEX 2.0) even though I was told it would be behavioural. What are the chances? How should I prepare for scenario based questions. Also what are the most important interview questions to prep and focus on?

thanks so much, freaking out here, in case you couldn't tell.

[Scottishtape]

I had questions such as, "Name a time when you had a difficult situation with a coworker. How did you handle it?". Those were most of the questions. I did get a clinical scenario in all of the interviews I went to. The biggest thing I got out of it that was a constant across all of the interviews: they all wanted a story about a time I went above and beyond to help someone, so have a great story prepared!

Good luck, you're in an exciting time!!

[Sour Lemon]

Hi all!

I have been invited to go in for an interview at a local hospital as a new grad! I am super excited and extremely nervous. The recruiter who emailed me about the interview clearly stated it would be behavioural based. I have been coming up with good examples/stories to share for countless hours. I am now wondering if they may still ask scenario based questions (NCLEX 2.0) even though I was told it would be behavioural. What are the chances? How should I prepare for scenario based questions. Also what are the most important interview questions to prep and focus on?

thanks so much, freaking out here, in case you couldn't tell.

Prepare for anything, but don't prepare so much that you sound like a robot. As a new grad, you shouldn't be expected to know everything, just the common-sense big stuff. If a behavior question really stumps me, I'm OK with saying, "I'm not sure how to answer that. Can we come back to it?" Then I hope it gets forgotten about, and it usually does. People hire people they like. Giving the "best" answers is not always important.