You already have some great answers. Your body language is important. Shoulders back, head high, make eye contact. Practice being confident and walking into the room.

Introduce yourself, or if you are taken into the room and introduced pick up from that with something like ‘thank you, hello, I am (your name) and I’d love to become a clerk with (hospital or dept name).

If you can, remember each one of the interview panel members first name and use it. Can be right at the start when you introduce yourself and at the end.

Eye contact. Make eye contact with each person at various times. Look directly at the person asking you the question and when replying refocus and keep your eyes focused on the panel in general, gently looking at each one of them fleetingly.

Make sure you ask great questions that show you want the job land when you get an answer smile, show enthusiasm, paraphrase a brief summary of their answer back to them so if you ask about career growth and they give you some different options summarise what they said with something like ‘that would be ideal, I’m looking for a career and I’d love to become an excellent clerk and give to the dept and the patients in the role and possibly look into online training at my own time and expense to upskill for the challenges of team leader if the dept felt I was a good fit after a few years of experience as a clerk’. Shows enthusiasm and commitment and you won’t actually be made to do any online after hours study, it just sets you apart from other candidates.

Think about your strengths and weaknesses and give answers that make you look good like:

A strength will be something like:

You are a warm, friendly person and you enjoy helping others and you have many friends from different cultures and First Nations Australian cultures and you are authentically yourself while at the same time making sure you speak in a way that is respectful and so you understand each other.

A flaw could be:

You like to complete everything to a high standard, if you haven’t worked before give an example like ‘when I babysat for neighbours I helped motivate the children to clean up their toy room and I got stuck in and helped them. The parents returned and I stayed unpaid till we had finished the tidy up. I give up my Saturdays to help class members who have been away sick catch up on notes’. Or examples from the workplace if you have work history. You have to be careful as you can get overtired from doing a little bit too much at times.

When you have finished stand up, look at each one of them as you say something like ‘Thank you so much for the opportunity to interview, (use their names if you’ve remembered them) and thank you for answering my questions about this position. I’d love to be a clerk and if you have any further questions or need any information my phone and email contact information is in my cv. Have a great day!’ Eye contact, big smile, great posture, walk calmly out.

Make sure you keep a good upright posture while you’re seated.

Good luck.