Hiring Journal Entry

I expected to learn about the things that go into interview preparation and the way that managers handle interviewing and the interviewing process.  I also expected to learn about the way that organizations organize things and the way that hiring is done in different organizations.  I can be nervous at times going into the interview, but I never thought about the fact that the manager could also be nervous or effort that the manager puts into the interview and the process.

I learned quite a bit more than I expected to learn.  I learned about behavior based questions and the ways and types of questions that take place in interviews in order for managers to get an idea of how candidates behave and react to the situation and/or question.  The actual questions that can get asked is something else that is involved in the hiring process.  There are a number of questions that cannot be discussed in the interview process, unless the interviewee brings them up, then some of the follow up questions can be asked.

I enjoyed the process of coming up with questions to interview someone that does the interviewing for a company.  This will give the insight into how the other side of an interview is done and prepared for.  I look forward to being able to interview the person with our questions and seeing how it goes.  

The information learned in this module will be invaluable as I go forward in my nursing career.  I do not plan to be a low level employee for long.  I want to get involved in the leadership and management of a company soon, and this will be very important thing.  This will also be important the next time that I am looking for a position.  It will help me have a better idea of what to expect from the interviewer.  

This information from this hiring module has a lot of real world applications that I will be able to use for years to come.  I had a job interview for an RN position a couple of months ago, and it was a fun experience.  As I was thinking about it, there were a number of behavior based questions asked and it was a form filled out from HR that they were using to interview me.  This is pretty cool to see the inner workings of this.