Job Interview-took forever!

hypnotic_nurse · Oct 16, 2004

No way would they have talked to you that long unless they thought you were a good match. :) I'd say that's promising!

weetziebat · Oct 16, 2004

Good luck, hon. Yeah, job interviews have really gotten tough, in my experience, in the last few years. I used to go in and chat with one person for about 15-20 minutes, but now when we interview for nurses, there are at least four people there and everyone is asking questions. I did put in my two cents and told them I think it is asinine to ask someone applying for an RN position "Why did you become a nurse?" Is it just me, or does that seem dumb? Would you ask an engineer why s/he choose that field?

Anyway, getting off the topic there. Good luck - hope you get the position and that you enjoy the work :)

meownsmile, BSN, RN · Oct 16, 2004

They were reading your body language and facial expressions for every senerio they gave you. A lot of times actions speak louder than words. You wouldnt believe the subtle clues you get just by watching facial expressions and body language like how someone changes position in their chair.

Trauma Columnist · Oct 16, 2004

Personally I've always felt that the longer the interview, the more interested they are. Like another poster said though, nowadays its more the team concept. For my current job - I had a 90 minute interview with 8 people! And...no...it wasn't for the CEO!

LPNtoBSNstudent, BSN, RN · Oct 16, 2004

I had a very similar interview for home care once and it was years ago. In fact, it was 2 interviews. One was a scheduled one hour long telephone interview (they told me it would last an hour when we scheduled it) and the second interview (for the same job) was at least an hour with a different person, face to face, asking different questions. They wanted to know everything from what nursing journals and organizations do I belong to ...to what would I do in ____ situation ....and I even had to pick any ONE disease process of my choice and work it out verbally as a generic case presentation with typical presentation of s/s, nursing diagnosis & interventions, usual medications they might be on and the s/s of adverse effects of those meds (and how would I evaluate effectiveness of the meds and interventions). She wrote down almost everything I said. There was a lot more to the interviews but I thought it was pretty intense for a job interview too. I did end up getting the job and loved it but it was intimidating at the time.

Lately I've heard of computerized personality tests required prior to interviews. The computerized tests are supposed to show likelyhood of any unethical behaviors and loyalty to the company more than nursing specific abilities.

Good luck!!

bearsthename · Oct 16, 2004

good luck

avahsmiles · Oct 16, 2004

Thanks for your replies. :) I really hope i made a good impression. They were easy-going women, however i was still nervous. I found myself acting alittle fidgety, so i did mention to them that i was nervous. All they need now are my refs and then we go from there. The starting wage for me will be $13.45+ an hour, because i have NA & MA certificates. So i'm really praying.....

:rolleyes: We were all cramped into a very small DR.s office for the interview. Boy, it wasn't fun having all eyes on me. :uhoh21:

dee

NancyJo · Oct 16, 2004

The hospital I am working @ is starting the same type of interviews on November1. They call it Peer Base Interviewing. All the directors chose staff from there floor to be on this "team". I happened to be one who was selected.On our floor it will be myself and a CNA. We attended training last week. The instructors tell us that these will be behavior based interviews. They told us that they should last approx. 1 hour. We will be working with the director to come up with the questions so we will be working off a script. They gave us a long list of do's and don'ts. I questioned the need for an RN on our team, but was told it wasn't necessary. I questioned what do I know about hiring RN's or unit clerks and was told that because this is "behavior based interviews" the titles really don't matter. I'm not sure what I think of all this yet, only time will tell. The applicant will first interview in human resources, then with the director of the unit and then with us. After all interviews are done we then give our recommedations. I'm guessing if they make it through the first two interviews they will be pretty good. Seems like a lot to me and just a bit intimidating. I guess I'll find out soon.

Good luck I hope you get the job.

ChrisA · Oct 16, 2004

Granted, it was part of my current career in software engineering, but the longest interview I've ever had was for 10 hours over the course of 2 days, meeting with 7 people one at a time, and including a 2 hour long design and discussion section.

avahsmiles · Oct 20, 2004

hi everyone!

just wanted to update you all. i got the job!!! they called this morning and offered it to me. of course, i said yes and tried not to sound too excited. :uhoh3: :chuckle

dee

tommycher · Oct 20, 2004

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!! We have started doing the team interviews at the hospital where I work too, and sitting there asking these questions, all I can think of is how glad I am they were not doing that when I was hired! I can't help but wonder if this type of interview is part of a retention program, cause once you have been through it, you may never leave the place out of fear of going through it again! Right?

Good luck, and remember, no place is perfect, so when you get irritated remember you will get irritated no matter where you are! Make the best of it and enjoy it! Hopefully, once you graduate you will be a nurse there too!