[Histonet] Interview Questions

[joelle weaver]

Good point about "personality" questions. I have often had this experience, where I was leaving the meeting wondering about the place from too much time spent on this sort of thing. However, I think that some line of questioning for this information is good to try to see if you can learn a little about everyone's general temperment - though I do concede this is difficult in such a staged interaction as an interview.  Sometimes people have knowledge and technical skills, but are very confrontational, poor communicators,  or have other attributes which make them a bad fit for any particular organization, and sometimes these things end up "sinking the ship" so to speak as far as the employee-employer relationship,  even when skills, reference or credentials are there. Everything about an interview is pretty much a calculated risk I suppose. 

Joelle Weaver MAOM, (HTL) ASCP
 
http://www.linkedin.com/in/joelleweaver

 > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:19:05 -0700
> From: billodonnell <@t> catholichealth.net
> To: sbreeden <@t> nmda.nmsu.edu; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: RE: [Histonet] Interview Questions
> CC: 
> 
> It would seem that questions like "How do you feel about cannibalism?"
> might also be out but might be far more helpful; than "phone" questions.
> 
> 
> On the serious side, when I was much younger I hired a person who was
> able to answer all the right "histo" questions and so I hired him. He
> turned out to be a poser, who, shortly after I fired him showed up at a
> local university with a lab coat that listed him as "Dr." He had indeed
> worked in a histo lab, but as a lab assistant, and so the the
> understanding of what a histologist does was well rehearsed. (BTW, it
> topok me about two weeks to catch on, though the more experienced techs
> in the department figured it out almost right away)
> 
> To be fair, it was during a time in hiring history when HR departments
> were not willing to give useful reference data and there were only a
> handful of questions they would even ask when checking. None of them
> were particularly useful or telling. For inistance, they would not ask
> if the person was an histo tech, but would simply ask, did he indeed
> work at your institution? 
> 
> The place where I worked required little or nothing for proof of
> experience. There was no background check either.
> 
> Today, however, reference checking is a lot easier and more reliable.
> 
> I guess my point here is that a good reference check needs to be done as
> well weeding them out by histo questions.  I'm sure your HR folks will
> do a fine job of this.
> 
> Also, once you have determined that they actually have the skills, or a
> realistic potential of gaining them, questions concerning dynamics of
> interaction are appropriate, though may lead to wrong impressions in the
> mind of the applicant. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Breeden,
> Sara
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:52 AM
> To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: [Histonet] Interview Questions
> 
> So far, I am TOTALLY impressed and so grateful for your suggestions.
> And here's why... did I ever tell anyone out there what the FIRST
> question I was asked by the pathologist at my interview?   It was.....
> (wait for it....)
> 
>  
> 
> "How do you feel about personal phone calls?".  Un-freakin' believable.
> I sure don't want someone to remember ME that way!!!
> 
>  
> 
> Sally Breeden, HT(ASCP)
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