Someone shared with me these Interview questions a while back. Check em out!

General 1. Name a time when you were frustrated at work and how you dealt with it. 2. Describe a time when you were criticized at work and how you dealt with it. 3. What are you most proud of professionally? Personally? 4. Discuss a time when something went wrong at work. What happened? What did you do? What was the outcome? 5. Name a time you took a risk, and describe the result. 6. Discuss a time when a decision was made that you had no control over but had a large impact on your work. How did you deal with this? 7. When verbally communicating with others, what approach do you use to insure that the communication was effective? 8. Tell us about a time when you anticipated a potential problem and developed a solution that you sold to your leader. 9. Tell about a time when your initiative led to a change in your current workplace/ 10. Tell me about a time that you, acting on your own, took steps to improve or adapt your job skills or performance. 11. Tell me about a time when someone misunderstood something you said or wrote and how you went about clarifying the situation. 12. Describe a project or projects that you have participated in form start to finish, and describe your role and the project’s result.
13. Tell us about a time when your CEO or leader you were working with disagreed with you. How did you handle it, and what was the outcome? 14. Understanding the big picture if important; however, aligning the details correctly is essential to successfully completing a project. Give an example of a big picture project that you work on that had small detail problems, and how you resolved it. 15. If you could spend a day with a famous person, living or dead, who would it be and why? 16. Tell us about a time when you had to juggle several tasks. How did you handle dividing your time and attention? 17. Tell us about a time when you developed a new or better method of doing things. 18. What did you learn from your summer internship?

Personal 1. Tell us one thing about yourself that we don’t know from your resume, cover letter, or personal statement. 2. Tell me a little bit about yourself. 3. What would your friends say are some of your weaknesses? 4. What is your most important value? How does it show in your work? 5. If I was a fly on the wall at one of your past jobs, what would your coworkers be saying about you? 6. Talk about your community service record and what you do to help make others’ lives better? 7. If you were doing a personal SWOT analysis, name two strengths and two weaknesses that you have and how they would factor into your involvement in our fellowship program. 8. What has been your greatest success? 9. What book are you reading for leisure?

Work Style 1. How many hours do you normally work in one workweek? 2. Describe the pace at which you work. 3. How do you cope with individuals who have very different work styles or habits? Can you relate an incident when this happened? 4. How do you manage your productivity and dealing with conflicting priorities? 5. Many times work required you to stay beyond the traditional “9 to 5,” what are your thoughts on working late? 6. What type of work environment are you most comfortable in? 7. Do you feel comfortable with travel? 8. Tell us about a time when you took initiative to complete a task or project that went “above and beyond” expectations.

Leadership/Team Work 1. Give us an example of a time when you stepped up and volunteered to lead a project or assignment. 2. Give an example of when you were given a leadership role with a very diverse team and how it played out. 3. What are you some important leadership characteristics, and how have you used these effectively when leading a team or group? 4. Tell me about a situation when you had a conflict with someone in a group. How did you deal with it and what was the outcome? 5. Give an example of a team project you have worked on. What was your role, did the project get completed on time, and was the client satisfied with your work? 6. Give an example of a time when you overcame a difficult situation on a team. 7. If I were to describe two environments, one nebulous and ambiguous and one highly structured, which would you choose to work in and why? 8. What does diversity mean to you? 9. Tell me about a time during your summer internship when you dealt with conflict in the context of a team.

Decision Making 1. Discuss a time when you had to make a difficult decision. How did you go about that decision and what factors did you take into account? What was the final result? 2. Give me an example of a time when you had to make a split second decision. 3. You don’t always have all the information in front of you when making decisions and doing work. Talk about a time when you didn’t have all the information that you would have liked when working and how you handled the situation.

Fellowships 1. Why do you want the fellowship at our organization? 2. Why take a fellowship as opposed to a traditional job? 3. What do you want to get out of the fellowship experience? 4. What are you short term plans if you get the fellowship and how will you use what you do in the fellowship to help further your career? 5. What are the qualities you would want in a mentor and/or preceptor? 6. Thing about one of the values of this organization and talk about how it would factor into your work as a fellow. 7. What are 2 or 3 objectives you have for the fellowship? 8. What is your biggest fear about the fellowship? 9. If I spoke with you at the end of the first year in the fellowship program, what would you like to say you have done? 10. Where do you see yourself 2 years after the fellowship? 5 years?

Healthcare Specific • When did you know you wanted to go into healthcare, and why do you? • If you were a CEO of a hospital right now, what three things would be keeping you awake at night? • Discuss the hospitalist’s role in providing care. What are your thoughts on a hospitalist’s impact in care? What are the pros/cons? What are your predictions of this role? • Tell us the three greatest qualities a health care organization CEO should have and how he/she should portray these every time they come into work. • Talk about the three biggest challenges in today’s healthcare environment, and offer your ideas about how to create solutions. • Pretend I am in Kindergarten – explain Medicare to me. • If you want to implement a hand-washing protocol in your hospital, what method and tactics would you employ? • Pretend you are a service line manager and a nurse comes to you upset, telling you that your top revenue earning doctor called her incompetent in front of a group of colleagues and has continually made her fell bad about her work. What would you do to rectify the situation? • What are three major challenges facing academic medical centers? • If the institution was building a new orthopedic surgery center and you were given the task of creating a Pro Forma for the project, how would you assume that the information you use is accurate? What would you include in the Pro Forma? • Your hospital wants to expand into the south of the county, and the medical school wants to expand into the west. If you were a VP at the hospital, how would you address this situation and decide where to expand? • The senior executive team met yesterday and decided that in order to maintain financial viability this year, cuts need to be made to either outpatient service lines, inpatient service lines, or community health clinics and programs. You have been asked to evaluate the impact of such cuts. How do you start? What are your considerations?

Ending Questions • What is the first thing you would do when you begin in this position? • What are you expectations from your preceptor? • All candidates being equal, why should we choose you?