November 30, 2023 • 29 mins
Ready to crack your first nursing job interview with confidence? Join us as we sit down with Mary, the genius behind YouTube's popular channel, "The New Grad Nursing Interview Coach." Our conversation with Mary promises to be a treasure chest of insights, techniques, and advice on preparing for nursing job interviews, especially for new graduates. Her unique coaching style, born from personal experiences and real-life anecdotes, emphasizes the power of confidence, connection, and early preparation.
If you're a new nursing graduate seeking an upper hand in your interviews, this episode is specially tailored for you. We steer the conversation towards challenges unique to novices in the field. Mary shares precious nuggets of wisdom on how to make an unforgettable impression during an interview and how maintaining an upbeat attitude can tilt the odds in your favor. Moreover, her advice on journaling and watching interviews to bolster your preparation could be the game-changer you've been seeking.
As we conclude our enlightening session, we touch upon some critical dos and don'ts for nailing nursing interviews. You'll learn the importance of portraying yourself as compassionate, patient-focused, and why it's a big no to impersonate difficult patients or family members during conflict narratives. The cherry on the cake is the constructive strategy to answer that age-old question, "Tell me about yourself," with a focus on personal narratives and motivation behind choosing nursing as a career. Soak up these gems of wisdom, and let's conquer the nursing interview battlefield together.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So you're saying no to people that you, that you do,
want right.
So how do you become the couplepeople that it's hard to let go
of?
It's the people that youconnected with, people that
you're like yeah, I had a reallygreat time with them.
I'd love to see them every dayat work.
I can see them getting alongwith the people at work.
I can see them being reallywarm and kind with our patients.
Like we need this person.
(00:21):
It would be such a shame ifanother unit got them, you know.
So to be that person, you'vegot to not be so nervous that it
stops you from connecting withyour interviewer who, at the end
of the day, is just anotherhuman, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Nursing school is a wild ride, but that doesn't mean
you have to run and hide whenthey're going.
Gets tough.
Don't leave your stressundiagnosed.
You got to call the nursingstudent coach Real life tips
from a registered nurse, inschool and out.
(00:58):
She's seen the worst.
Now, without further ado, yeah,here is your host.
It's the nursing student coach.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Hi everybody and welcome to nursing student coach
.
My name is nurse Lauren and Iam your host.
I want to thank you so much foryour support in the show and,
as you know, it is my personalmission to help put more Great
nurses into the world.
That's why I started thispodcast and I so appreciate all
(01:30):
the ratings and reviews andpositive comments and feedback.
If you take the you know 60seconds or less to pull out your
phone and give us a quickrating on Apple podcasts or on
Spotify, or if you're watchingon YouTube, if you can subscribe
and make a comment, it reallyhelps to put the show in front
(01:51):
of people who may not have foundit otherwise.
So I really want to reach asmany Future nurses as possible.
So thank you so much again inyour help in doing that.
Here's, here's the thing, guysnursing school ends and, before
you know it, you will be sendingout cover letters and resumes
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and you will get your firstInterview for your first nursing
job.
And how are you going toprepare?
Well, I came across a amazingresource, a YouTube channel
called the new grad nursinginterview coach when I was
preparing for my own interviews,and I watched every single
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video that she had and, and shereally helped me to prepare for
my interviews.
And she really breaks downEvery single question that they
may ask you, tells you how toanswer it, the do's and don'ts
of nursing interviews.
And she's here today to talk toyou.
(02:54):
Her name is Mary, she is aregistered nurse and she works
one-on-one With nursing studentsto help them prepare for their
interviews.
Her website is New grad nursinginterview coach calm.
She can work with youone-on-one or you can watch the
many YouTube videos that she haswith her tips and mock
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interviews with other students.
So she's here today.
We're going to have a greatconversation about how to
prepare for those interviews.
For all of you who aregraduating soon, and even if
you're not, if your interview isfar off in the future, this
episode is still for you becauseshe tells you how you can be
preparing while you are still inclinical and why that is the
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best thing you can possibly do.
So thank you for joining us,mary, and I would like to
welcome her to the show.
So, mary, thank you so much forjoining us today.
I'm so happy to have youWelcome.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Thank you for having me.
This is really exciting.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yes, I'm so excited to share this with nursing
students.
As I told you before we went onthe air, I found your YouTube
channel.
I was so grateful that I cameacross you, because I listened
to, I think, almost every videoif not every video that you made
and it helped me so much, and Igot a emergency room residency
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for new grads, which is goinggreat.
So I thank you so much for allof your tips and advice.
It was so helpful.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well, thanks for saying that.
I want to also thank all thenew grads that have been willing
to share their answers withstrangers on the internet.
It's that people are willing todo that and it helps other new
grads that are in their you knowpast position, so I'm always
really appreciative to them too.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yes, absolutely, and for those of you who haven't
seen Mary's channel, it iscalled the new grad nursing
interview coach and she doesmock interviews with new grads
and you can learn so much fromit and she'll stop them and
interject and say what shethinks, and it's just really
great.
So, mary, I wanted to ask youhow did you get into coaching
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new grads for interviews?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, I don't actually think I've ever talked
about this it's.
It's kind of a funny story, Ithink, because my website says
that I'm a new grad interviewerat a hospital.
People think that's how itstarted.
But I was actually doing thisfor free, just for fun with my
friends.
I, for whatever reason,interviewing was something that
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came really naturally to me andI didn't really understand why
my my friends and my cohort werestruggling so much with it.
I was just like.
Well, you just think about whythey're answering the question,
what is probably in their rubric.
And you told them a time thatyou did that thing and they were
like, how did you think of that?
I'm like I don't know, it justmakes sense.
So I was in nursing school.
(05:57):
I would do these, you know,hour, two hour long, like
sessions with my friends tocoach them, to help them get
their first jobs.
And then I was talking to mydad.
Growing up he's always beenreally into the like self help
books and the sort of businesspsychology stuff.
And he'll ask me sometimes youknow, who do you want to be a
hero for?
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I'm like Dad, what does thatmean?
He's like Well, who?
Who are the people that youthink are just the best people
and you want to help them?
And I think new grads are justin nursing students are just the
best people on the planet.
They're so just like talking tothem and seeing how excited
they are to help people justkind of renews why I went into
nursing and it's reallytherapeutic for me to like see
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how great they are and kind ofbe reminded of of that.
I know this is this is kind ofcrazy, but maybe this could be a
thing that I do now, like maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I can.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Maybe I can start in like helping people prep for
interviews, and so I starteddoing it and now it's just kind
of a people are like How'd youget this job?
I'm like I don't know, I juststarted doing it and yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I really like doing now, and it's, I think, what
really saw that it was somethingyou were good at and you could
help other people doing it, andit just kind of float from there
and I love that story and Ilove.
I couldn't agree with you moreabout nursing students and new
grads.
I think I want to help them asmuch as I can, too, with what
I'm doing, so I think that's.
(07:22):
That's fabulous and your dadsounds like an awesome guy.
So for all the new grads outthere that are preparing for
their interviews they might begraduating soon what advice do
you have as far as how toprepare for their first nursing
interview?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
It's, it's hard.
I feel like a lot of new gradsget in the situation where they
think about interviews and theythink, well, let me just get
through Thursday's test, let mejust get through the NCLEX.
And then all of a sudden theyheard back from this hospital
that they're really excitedabout and the interview is in
two days.
Like oh my gosh, maybe I shouldlook into this to see if what
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do I do?
here, and then you know if wehave time to squeeze in a time
to work together, we do that.
And then what I often hear fromthem is I know I have an answer
to that question.
I feel like something like thatdid happen, but now I don't
remember the details of it,right, because they'll say
things like, you know, theirvitals weren't good and I'm like
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do you have like ballparknumbers?
Or, and they're like, I wish Iwould have written it down,
because now, now I don't know,right, and especially, when
you're nervous in an interviewto try to recall those numbers
in a way that sounds puttogether.
So I think the best way is towrite like journal during after
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clinicals while you're waitingfor pre-conference,
post-conference to start.
The other thing, too, is justwatching.
Maybe just you know one day,you know every couple of weeks
instead of watching.
You know what you usually watch.
You know on your downtime Ifyou just watch an interview in a
low pressure situation.
So your brain kind of getsprimed of oh these are the
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stories that I'm going to need.
This is kind of the info thatmy brain needs to look for and
grab onto and write down, and itwould kind of take the pressure
out of trying to come up witheverything at once.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Right.
Doing it in advance makes sucha difference.
I agree, and I love your ideaabout the journal.
I think that is such a goodidea to do it as you go, to
reflect as you're going, becauseyou'll have better stories that
way.
But what I did, and what Isuggest doing, is to get a
notebook or a folder at somepoint early in your final
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semester and just start writingout memories of stories that you
have, know what the most commonquestions are and just start
building your toolbox of stories, because you can use multiple
stories for the same question.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
At least I think so.
Yeah, 100%.
If you have 10 good stories,that's about all you need.
And then there's also a skillthat you develop of being
flexible, of knowing how to pair.
Like, let's say, you have thatcritical story about your
patient that was decompensating.
You could use that story fortell me about a time when you
had great communication yes,talking about all the people
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that you communicated with toget that person help.
Or a time you had greatteamwork, a time you
collaborated Like it doesn'thave to be the tell me about
your most critical patient story, right?
So, like you said, if you havethese 10 or so stories that you
feel really great about talkingto a hiring manager about,
you're already in a really goodplace.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, so you've sat in on a number of interviews
with new grads.
What would you say makes a newgrad, or really anybody
interviewing, stand out in botha good way or a bad way?
You remember them because theysaid something really great or
they said something that wasn'tso great.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know, if I'm just kind of thinking about all the
new grads that I've worked with,it's really hard to put this
into words, but sometimes newgrads have this.
They bring this energy to theirsession or their interview way
where they really want this job,and they kind of have this
energy of like this is my dreamjob, I need this job.
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And it can go a couple ofdifferent ways.
They can come across as justreally frantic and nervous, or
they can come across as soundingvery rehearsed because they are
so prepared, because they wantthis job so badly.
And then when you're talking tosomeone and you can tell that
nothing that they're saying issomething that they made up in
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the moment, that this is allsort of like they're standing
behind this wall of rehearsedthings and they're not going to
let you in or let you geni yeah,get in contact with them.
It kind of feels like theperson isn't willing to connect
with you, that they're keepingyou at a distance.
So what you want to do is beprepared enough that you feel
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comfortable, comfortable enoughto engage with because, if you
can imagine, you're listening tocandidate after candidate all
day long and you have that oneperson or you really enjoyed
that hour with them because youfelt like they talked to you,
like you're just two humanshaving a conversation and they
connected with you and theysmiled a couple of times each
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answer and you felt like you gota chance to really get to know
them.
It's it's it's harder.
So let's say you have aninterview and almost everyone is
a yes, like, let's say, you gotapproval for three spots.
You have to then fight to getthose three people that maybe
another unit also wants right,right.
So you have to weed it down tojust the amount of people that
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you have approval for to hire.
So you're saying no to peoplethat you, that you do, want,
right.
So how do you become the couplepeople that it's hard to let go
of?
It's the people that youconnected with, people that
you're like yeah, I had a reallygreat time with them.
I'd love to see them every dayat work.
I can see them getting alongwith the people at work.
I can see them being reallywarm and kind with our patients.
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Like we need this person.
It would be such a shame ifanother unit got them.
You know so, to be a person,you've got to not be so nervous
that it stops you fromconnecting with your interviewer
who, at the end of the day, isjust another human you know
Exactly?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, it's intimidating, it can be, but
they are just a person that youwill be working with.
Would you say that you have anumber one do and a number one
don't when it comes to nursinginterviews?
A?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
number one do.
There's kind of a don't side toit too, right?
So if you have, you bring tothe table experience like being
a nursing assistant or Something.
You know, maybe you were an EMTor something like that that got
you a lot of really greatstories.
If most of your stories are youacting in that role, the
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interviewer might think, oh,they don't think of themselves
as a nurse yet.
They're not really, like,identified with that role, right
?
So you know, I've talked to newgrads who have gotten feedback
that you know all your storieswere about being a nursing
assistant.
While the the stories weregreat, you did your
preceptorship here on our unit.
Why didn't you talk more aboutthat?
(14:30):
Wow, yeah, so I would say not tohave more than two stories in
your interview about that roleand trying to have most of your
stories about Things that youdid with, like direct patient
care in the nursing role.
You know, for example, like astory about conflict.
Don't talk about how you had agroup project and it was the
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struggle in clarifying rolesright.
Talk about a discussion thatyou had to have to protect a
patient in a clinical settingright.
And if it was when you were anursing assistant, you don't
have to necessarily say that.
If it's not Permanent to thestory, you could say you know at
this certain point in time, youknow at this certain hospital
or in in this type of unit.
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You don't have to say when Iwas a nursing assistant.
Right because in some situationsit doesn't matter.
You would have done the samething as a nurse you know what I
mean.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, I never would have thought of that, but that's
really good advice.
Yeah, because you want to seeyourself in the role of the
nurse.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Another thing I guess , as a don't that is really easy
to do is, let's say, you'retalking about Either a conflict
with someone or a family memberor a patient, that was being
difficult.
As a human, it's really naturalto sort of impersonate their
voice, right?
Oh no, yeah, yeah.
So you know the.
(15:47):
You know, if you're talkingabout a family member that was
upset, you know like I, you knowI was in the emergency room and
there was a dad and a son thatyou know.
The dad was really upsetbecause they had been waiting so
long and he was like you knowwhat are you guys doing?
Like I've been waiting so long,but like the words enough are.
You don't have to do any kindof like head movement or voice
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change.
Right, it's so easy to do, tokind of like pull people into
your story, but it comes acrossas Very clear that you don't
like that person, right?
So?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
and also if you're using words like needy demanding
frequent flyer.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, there's better words that you can use instead.
Choose your words carefully.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Whoa.
Yes, like you can quote them,but do the, do it in your own
voice.
Yes, I think.
I think the the negativepatient experience, the conflict
question, is tough because youdon't want to look super
negative like you're complaining.
So you have to choose, chooseyour story carefully and choose
how you word it really carefully, put a positive spin on it.
(16:53):
Would you say in yourexperience that most interviews
start off with the question tellme about yourself.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, and how would you go?
What's your advice foranswering that question?
I guess, as a part B, do mostof the interviews that you sit
in on start that way, and if so,how do you suggest answering
that question?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
The framework that I've found is kind of helpful to
think about is almost as if,instead of tell me about
yourself, it's sort of like whyare you here today?
Like, what are you looking for?
How did you get into this?
Kind of like, tell me about thestory of you in nursing.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So most people follow kind of a formula of you know
name, where they went to schoolwhen they graduated.
I think it can be reallyhelpful in building that rapport
and being more of like a personwith a story than just a
candidate.
In a time slot to talk about,like what initially got you into
nursing right, you were takingcare of your aunt or your
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grandma or I don't know, maybeyou had an illness or you know,
everyone brings their own reallyinteresting story.
There's so many differentexamples.
Immediately within the first 30seconds, you're a person with a
story you know.
So it kind of helps build thatlike person to person connection
.
So, talking about how youinitially even because you know
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if you want to help people youcould have been a social worker,
right, If you really lovemedicine, you could have been a
doctor like why nursing of allthings, Like what gave you that
idea?
And then what were kind of thejobs or the volunteer
experiences that solidified foryou and why, Like, yes, nursing
is what I want to go into, right.
And then the next part is kindof gearing up towards that, that
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you tailor it to that specificjob, how in school you realized
you loved whatever it is,whether it's PEDs or ICU, like
what rotation was the mostsimilar?
And talk about why you thrivedin that environment.
Was it that you loved you knowthe critical thinking aspect and
like being challenged andworking in a fast-paced
environment.
Or you really enjoyed workingwith children and like talk
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about how great that experiencewas to kind of make them see
like, oh, this unit would bereally good for this nurse,
Right, this would be a good fit.
And they can kind of likevisually picture that.
And then this part of theformula is sort of why this
hospital?
Right, like if you Google likethe hospital name and then
nursing careers, you can kind ofskim and get some ideas of what
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are their, what are they pridethemselves on, and maybe pick
one or two words that you'relike I really respect that and
talk about it and some peoplewrap it up by you know some sort
of gratitude piece of howgrateful they are to be here
today talking to or thank youfor giving me the chance to
speak with you.
I'm so excited to get to knowmore about you.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah, I love that's a really good formula and it's
specific.
That's what's good, because Ithink some people can go off on
a tangent just rambling, and soI think, if you hit boom, boom,
boom, I actually led with thegratitude thing because I saw so
many interviews where peopleare just like my name is this
and I graduated from here, andso I just wanted to come right
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out and just say well, first ofall, I'm so excited to be here.
You know, I'm so excited tomeet you and I had done my
research like crazy, but Ididn't rattle off the mission
statement.
I worked in some of the corevalues that they had, with my
core values.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
And like having a like.
If that flow comes morenaturally to you, it's good that
it's a little bit differentthan like.
You don't want everyonefollowing this same formula.
And then knowing a little bitabout the hospital.
It doesn't just sound likeyou're just going wherever you
reach out to you Like you are.
This is something that you knowwhat it's going to be, and it's
something that you know you'regoing to like, rather than I'm
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just going to go wherever hemails me back.
I just want a job, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, for sure.
So I know that this is on yourYouTube channel, but what are
some of the most commonquestions that people should
have in their tool bell Like?
What are like?
Without a doubt, you will verylikely be asked boom, boom, boom
.
What are some of those commonquestions in your experience?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
In my videos.
I like to kind of go in thatorder because I know most people
won't make it through the wholevideo, so I want them to get
like at least the most likelyquestions.
So most likely obviously is thetell me about yourself A lot of
hospitals ask about.
They want sort of that sweetstory of you know a special
moment you had with a patientand that could look like tell me
about a time you went above andbeyond or, yeah, about a time
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you provided compassionate care.
Another super common theme islike related to mistakes and
feedback.
So they can ask you know a timethat you made a mistake and how
?
In the kind of the points fromthat are usually about like how
you made change, how you tookaccountability, made changes
going forward.
It's not enough to just likelist a story about a mistake.
It's like that kind of afterpiece.
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That's the critical part.
And then the feedback story isthey want to know that they're
hiring someone who is open tofeedback, who really wants to
learn from their preceptor andtheir peers.
And then conflict is sort ofanother genre of questions,
right, and then they have to aska question about conflict with
a coworker, with a supervisor,with a doctor.
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So have you know conflict story?
And if it's not exactly thekind of like let's say yours was
about a coworker and they won'twant about a doctor you can say
like is it okay if I you know,tell this other sort of version
of you know most of the time.
And then other common ones, thesort of culturally conversant
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care like diversity type ofstory is often asked about, and
it's not enough to just say Iused a translator once, like
they want to like help to bringwhat's important to that person,
because you listen to what'simportant to them, to their
bedside care yes, what you enjoydoing that.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
And then I know a lot of people who got that question
.
Yeah, yeah yeah, People ask andthen there's always like a
difficult patient.
Tell me about a difficultpatient.
A lot of people got A difficultpatient.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Oh my gosh.
Yes, like almost everyinterview.
And then there's also like,let's say, you're going for a
pediatrics type of interview.
They'll likely ask tell meabout a time you had a difficult
family member or a time youprovide family centered care
which is sort of the familyversion of the above and beyond
Right.
Other super common questions.
There's always the strengthsand weaknesses.
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Why should we choose you?
Where do you see yourself inone in five years?
Yes, and then oftentimes, at theend they'll say what questions
do you have for us?
So have a couple of questionsprepared that way.
But if you have good storiesfor them and also have a story
about a critical patient,because, if you don't do that
and someone else does, it kindof seems like they can be
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trusted in an emergency, whereasthey don't know if they can
trust you in an emergency,because you've never told a
story about a time when youhandle the emergency.
Well, what?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
do you mean Right?
What would you say to somebodywho's minutes away from walking
into an interview and they arejust super nervous.
What would you say to thatperson?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I don't know where I got this tip.
It's the tip that, for somereason, was the one tip I needed
when I was going into myinterview.
I wish I'd googled to try tofigure out where I got this from
, because I had done anextensive search of possible
questions and tips.
It was to try to projectopenness and warmth Because for
some reason I can't be nervousand also project warmth at the
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same time.
It's like one cancels out theother.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
So if I just focused on being warm.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
The nerves took a back seat for the moment.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That's great.
I've never heard it put thatway before.
That's really good.
Do you see any common themes ormistakes that are just so
preventable, just kind of likebonehead mistakes kind of thing?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
When they sound too rehearsed.
That's something that it's hardto tell someone.
I don't believe anything thatyou just told me right now
because you sound like you'rejust like reading everything I'm
sure you mentioned it, but itdoesn't come across as genuine
and it's really hard to coachsomeone out of that because it's
a.
Thing that people do whenthey're nervous to be safe
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behind that and what?
they'll say is I'm sorry, I'mjust so nervous.
So that's a common thing thatis avoidable.
With and having a recording ofyourself answering these
questions, it's always hard, Idon't know.
For me it's hard to watchmyself talk on video.
But it can be helpful for newgrads to see am I coming across
rehearsed?
(25:50):
How does it look when Igenuinely smile, when I'm
animated and telling a story?
Other kind of don'ts, obviousthings like swearing or oh my
gosh, yeah, being late, or Imean sometimes you'll hear I'll
work with new grads who saythings where it'll be like how
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would your last manager describeyou?
And oh, I was often late.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Things where you're like come on, don't tell them
that, no that seems prettyobvious that you wouldn't say
that, but yeah, I could see somepeople.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I think it's good for people to bring a little bit of
themselves into what they wear.
Like, if you want to go tosuper professional business sort
of like Blazer and Blouse kindof route, that's great.
If you want to wear a dress,whatever you look professional
but comfortable in.
That maybe shows a little bitof your personality.
(26:46):
When I interviewed, I chose alight blue gray suit with a
white top.
I feel like the blue is alittle bit bold, but I matched
my resume colors and I don'tknow.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, I like putting a little bit of your personality
into it, because a lot ofpeople are just going to wear
the black blazer, black pantskind of thing or skirt.
I wore a pink shirt under myblazer, so there was a pop of
color too.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, I love that I did choose to go with blots
instead of heels, just because,I don't know, I just felt like I
would move a little bit morecomfortably.
That way, I'm going to saywhatever is going to make you
feel comfortable and you'regoing to look like you, feel
like yourself.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, don't wear heels if you're not used to
wearing heels.
I wore flats too, because Iknew they were giving me a tour
of the hospital and I didn'twant to be like limping all over
the hospital if I wasn't usedto these shoes.
So be comfortable butprofessional, I think, is really
solid advice.
So, mary, thank you so much.
(27:54):
This has been so helpful.
I know you've already helped somany new grads and I know
you're going to continue to, sojust keep on doing what you're
doing and crushing it.
It's just amazing what you'redoing.
I'm so impressed and I justlove it.
If you want to see more fromMary, you can go to her YouTube
(28:16):
channel.
It's NewGrad Nursing InterviewCoach, and that's also your
Instagram handle, and I'll putall of this in the description
of the show, along with youremail and your website, if
anybody wants to get in touchwith you.
Highly highly recommend.
So, mary, thanks again so much.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Right.
Thank you for meeting with me,lauren.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Absolutely have an awesome afternoon and I'll talk
to you later.
I'll talk to you too.
Bye, Mary.
Thank you so much for joiningus today and for all of you out
there who have an interviewcoming up for your first nursing
job, please go to Mary'sYouTube channel, NewGrad Nursing
Interview Coach, or you can goto her website,
(28:59):
newgradnursinginterviewcoachcom,and she offers one-on-one
private coaching.
That would be an amazing,incredible way to prepare for an
upcoming interview, but you canalso listen to every video that
she has on YouTube and learnfrom the other mock interviews
(29:21):
that she has on there.
She's an incredible resourcefor you guys and I hope that you
take full advantage.
So until next time, guys.
This is Nurse Lauren.
It is my personal mission tohelp put more great nurses into
the world.
Thank you all so much for yoursupport in helping me to do that
and have an amazing day.
Bye-bye.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Thanks for tuning in to the Nursing Student Coach
Podcast.
So you're saying no to people that you, that you do,
want right.
So how do you become the couplepeople that it's hard to let go
of?
It's the people that youconnected with, people that
you're like yeah, I had a reallygreat time with them.
I'd love to see them every dayat work.
I can see them getting alongwith the people at work.
I can see them being reallywarm and kind with our patients.
Like we need this person.
(00:21):
It would be such a shame ifanother unit got them, you know.
So to be that person, you'vegot to not be so nervous that it
stops you from connecting withyour interviewer who, at the end
of the day, is just anotherhuman, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Nursing school is a wild ride, but that doesn't mean
you have to run and hide whenthey're going.
Gets tough.
Don't leave your stressundiagnosed.
You got to call the nursingstudent coach Real life tips
from a registered nurse, inschool and out.
(00:58):
She's seen the worst.
Now, without further ado, yeah,here is your host.
It's the nursing student coach.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Hi everybody and welcome to nursing student coach
.
My name is nurse Lauren and Iam your host.
I want to thank you so much foryour support in the show and,
as you know, it is my personalmission to help put more Great
nurses into the world.
That's why I started thispodcast and I so appreciate all
(01:30):
the ratings and reviews andpositive comments and feedback.
If you take the you know 60seconds or less to pull out your
phone and give us a quickrating on Apple podcasts or on
Spotify, or if you're watchingon YouTube, if you can subscribe
and make a comment, it reallyhelps to put the show in front
(01:51):
of people who may not have foundit otherwise.
So I really want to reach asmany Future nurses as possible.
So thank you so much again inyour help in doing that.
Here's, here's the thing, guysnursing school ends and, before
you know it, you will be sendingout cover letters and resumes
(02:12):
and you will get your firstInterview for your first nursing
job.
And how are you going toprepare?
Well, I came across a amazingresource, a YouTube channel
called the new grad nursinginterview coach when I was
preparing for my own interviews,and I watched every single
(02:33):
video that she had and, and shereally helped me to prepare for
my interviews.
And she really breaks downEvery single question that they
may ask you, tells you how toanswer it, the do's and don'ts
of nursing interviews.
And she's here today to talk toyou.
(02:54):
Her name is Mary, she is aregistered nurse and she works
one-on-one With nursing studentsto help them prepare for their
interviews.
Her website is New grad nursinginterview coach calm.
She can work with youone-on-one or you can watch the
many YouTube videos that she haswith her tips and mock
(03:15):
interviews with other students.
So she's here today.
We're going to have a greatconversation about how to
prepare for those interviews.
For all of you who aregraduating soon, and even if
you're not, if your interview isfar off in the future, this
episode is still for you becauseshe tells you how you can be
preparing while you are still inclinical and why that is the
(03:38):
best thing you can possibly do.
So thank you for joining us,mary, and I would like to
welcome her to the show.
So, mary, thank you so much forjoining us today.
I'm so happy to have youWelcome.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Thank you for having me.
This is really exciting.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yes, I'm so excited to share this with nursing
students.
As I told you before we went onthe air, I found your YouTube
channel.
I was so grateful that I cameacross you, because I listened
to, I think, almost every videoif not every video that you made
and it helped me so much, and Igot a emergency room residency
(04:21):
for new grads, which is goinggreat.
So I thank you so much for allof your tips and advice.
It was so helpful.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well, thanks for saying that.
I want to also thank all thenew grads that have been willing
to share their answers withstrangers on the internet.
It's that people are willing todo that and it helps other new
grads that are in their you knowpast position, so I'm always
really appreciative to them too.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yes, absolutely, and for those of you who haven't
seen Mary's channel, it iscalled the new grad nursing
interview coach and she doesmock interviews with new grads
and you can learn so much fromit and she'll stop them and
interject and say what shethinks, and it's just really
great.
So, mary, I wanted to ask youhow did you get into coaching
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new grads for interviews?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, I don't actually think I've ever talked
about this it's.
It's kind of a funny story, Ithink, because my website says
that I'm a new grad interviewerat a hospital.
People think that's how itstarted.
But I was actually doing thisfor free, just for fun with my
friends.
I, for whatever reason,interviewing was something that
(05:35):
came really naturally to me andI didn't really understand why
my my friends and my cohort werestruggling so much with it.
I was just like.
Well, you just think about whythey're answering the question,
what is probably in their rubric.
And you told them a time thatyou did that thing and they were
like, how did you think of that?
I'm like I don't know, it justmakes sense.
So I was in nursing school.
(05:57):
I would do these, you know,hour, two hour long, like
sessions with my friends tocoach them, to help them get
their first jobs.
And then I was talking to mydad.
Growing up he's always beenreally into the like self help
books and the sort of businesspsychology stuff.
And he'll ask me sometimes youknow, who do you want to be a
hero for?
(06:17):
I'm like Dad, what does thatmean?
He's like Well, who?
Who are the people that youthink are just the best people
and you want to help them?
And I think new grads are justin nursing students are just the
best people on the planet.
They're so just like talking tothem and seeing how excited
they are to help people justkind of renews why I went into
nursing and it's reallytherapeutic for me to like see
(06:38):
how great they are and kind ofbe reminded of of that.
I know this is this is kind ofcrazy, but maybe this could be a
thing that I do now, like maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I can.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Maybe I can start in like helping people prep for
interviews, and so I starteddoing it and now it's just kind
of a people are like How'd youget this job?
I'm like I don't know, I juststarted doing it and yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I really like doing now, and it's, I think, what
really saw that it was somethingyou were good at and you could
help other people doing it, andit just kind of float from there
and I love that story and Ilove.
I couldn't agree with you moreabout nursing students and new
grads.
I think I want to help them asmuch as I can, too, with what
I'm doing, so I think that's.
(07:22):
That's fabulous and your dadsounds like an awesome guy.
So for all the new grads outthere that are preparing for
their interviews they might begraduating soon what advice do
you have as far as how toprepare for their first nursing
interview?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
It's, it's hard.
I feel like a lot of new gradsget in the situation where they
think about interviews and theythink, well, let me just get
through Thursday's test, let mejust get through the NCLEX.
And then all of a sudden theyheard back from this hospital
that they're really excitedabout and the interview is in
two days.
Like oh my gosh, maybe I shouldlook into this to see if what
(08:04):
do I do?
here, and then you know if wehave time to squeeze in a time
to work together, we do that.
And then what I often hear fromthem is I know I have an answer
to that question.
I feel like something like thatdid happen, but now I don't
remember the details of it,right, because they'll say
things like, you know, theirvitals weren't good and I'm like
(08:25):
do you have like ballparknumbers?
Or, and they're like, I wish Iwould have written it down,
because now, now I don't know,right, and especially, when
you're nervous in an interviewto try to recall those numbers
in a way that sounds puttogether.
So I think the best way is towrite like journal during after
(08:48):
clinicals while you're waitingfor pre-conference,
post-conference to start.
The other thing, too, is justwatching.
Maybe just you know one day,you know every couple of weeks
instead of watching.
You know what you usually watch.
You know on your downtime Ifyou just watch an interview in a
low pressure situation.
So your brain kind of getsprimed of oh these are the
(09:09):
stories that I'm going to need.
This is kind of the info thatmy brain needs to look for and
grab onto and write down, and itwould kind of take the pressure
out of trying to come up witheverything at once.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Right.
Doing it in advance makes sucha difference.
I agree, and I love your ideaabout the journal.
I think that is such a goodidea to do it as you go, to
reflect as you're going, becauseyou'll have better stories that
way.
But what I did, and what Isuggest doing, is to get a
notebook or a folder at somepoint early in your final
(09:43):
semester and just start writingout memories of stories that you
have, know what the most commonquestions are and just start
building your toolbox of stories, because you can use multiple
stories for the same question.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
At least I think so.
Yeah, 100%.
If you have 10 good stories,that's about all you need.
And then there's also a skillthat you develop of being
flexible, of knowing how to pair.
Like, let's say, you have thatcritical story about your
patient that was decompensating.
You could use that story fortell me about a time when you
had great communication yes,talking about all the people
(10:22):
that you communicated with toget that person help.
Or a time you had greatteamwork, a time you
collaborated Like it doesn'thave to be the tell me about
your most critical patient story, right?
So, like you said, if you havethese 10 or so stories that you
feel really great about talkingto a hiring manager about,
you're already in a really goodplace.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, so you've sat in on a number of interviews
with new grads.
What would you say makes a newgrad, or really anybody
interviewing, stand out in botha good way or a bad way?
You remember them because theysaid something really great or
they said something that wasn'tso great.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know, if I'm just kind of thinking about all the
new grads that I've worked with,it's really hard to put this
into words, but sometimes newgrads have this.
They bring this energy to theirsession or their interview way
where they really want this job,and they kind of have this
energy of like this is my dreamjob, I need this job.
(11:28):
And it can go a couple ofdifferent ways.
They can come across as justreally frantic and nervous, or
they can come across as soundingvery rehearsed because they are
so prepared, because they wantthis job so badly.
And then when you're talking tosomeone and you can tell that
nothing that they're saying issomething that they made up in
(11:48):
the moment, that this is allsort of like they're standing
behind this wall of rehearsedthings and they're not going to
let you in or let you geni yeah,get in contact with them.
It kind of feels like theperson isn't willing to connect
with you, that they're keepingyou at a distance.
So what you want to do is beprepared enough that you feel
(12:08):
comfortable, comfortable enoughto engage with because, if you
can imagine, you're listening tocandidate after candidate all
day long and you have that oneperson or you really enjoyed
that hour with them because youfelt like they talked to you,
like you're just two humanshaving a conversation and they
connected with you and theysmiled a couple of times each
(12:30):
answer and you felt like you gota chance to really get to know
them.
It's it's it's harder.
So let's say you have aninterview and almost everyone is
a yes, like, let's say, you gotapproval for three spots.
You have to then fight to getthose three people that maybe
another unit also wants right,right.
So you have to weed it down tojust the amount of people that
(12:53):
you have approval for to hire.
So you're saying no to peoplethat you, that you do, want,
right.
So how do you become the couplepeople that it's hard to let go
of?
It's the people that youconnected with, people that
you're like yeah, I had a reallygreat time with them.
I'd love to see them every dayat work.
I can see them getting alongwith the people at work.
I can see them being reallywarm and kind with our patients.
(13:14):
Like we need this person.
It would be such a shame ifanother unit got them.
You know so, to be a person,you've got to not be so nervous
that it stops you fromconnecting with your interviewer
who, at the end of the day, isjust another human you know
Exactly?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, it's intimidating, it can be, but
they are just a person that youwill be working with.
Would you say that you have anumber one do and a number one
don't when it comes to nursinginterviews?
A?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
number one do.
There's kind of a don't side toit too, right?
So if you have, you bring tothe table experience like being
a nursing assistant or Something.
You know, maybe you were an EMTor something like that that got
you a lot of really greatstories.
If most of your stories are youacting in that role, the
(14:08):
interviewer might think, oh,they don't think of themselves
as a nurse yet.
They're not really, like,identified with that role, right
?
So you know, I've talked to newgrads who have gotten feedback
that you know all your storieswere about being a nursing
assistant.
While the the stories weregreat, you did your
preceptorship here on our unit.
Why didn't you talk more aboutthat?
(14:30):
Wow, yeah, so I would say not tohave more than two stories in
your interview about that roleand trying to have most of your
stories about Things that youdid with, like direct patient
care in the nursing role.
You know, for example, like astory about conflict.
Don't talk about how you had agroup project and it was the
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struggle in clarifying rolesright.
Talk about a discussion thatyou had to have to protect a
patient in a clinical settingright.
And if it was when you were anursing assistant, you don't
have to necessarily say that.
If it's not Permanent to thestory, you could say you know at
this certain point in time, youknow at this certain hospital
or in in this type of unit.
(15:12):
You don't have to say when Iwas a nursing assistant.
Right because in some situationsit doesn't matter.
You would have done the samething as a nurse you know what I
mean.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, I never would have thought of that, but that's
really good advice.
Yeah, because you want to seeyourself in the role of the
nurse.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Another thing I guess , as a don't that is really easy
to do is, let's say, you'retalking about Either a conflict
with someone or a family memberor a patient, that was being
difficult.
As a human, it's really naturalto sort of impersonate their
voice, right?
Oh no, yeah, yeah.
So you know the.
(15:47):
You know, if you're talkingabout a family member that was
upset, you know like I, you knowI was in the emergency room and
there was a dad and a son thatyou know.
The dad was really upsetbecause they had been waiting so
long and he was like you knowwhat are you guys doing?
Like I've been waiting so long,but like the words enough are.
You don't have to do any kindof like head movement or voice
(16:07):
change.
Right, it's so easy to do, tokind of like pull people into
your story, but it comes acrossas Very clear that you don't
like that person, right?
So?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
and also if you're using words like needy demanding
frequent flyer.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, there's better words that you can use instead.
Choose your words carefully.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Whoa.
Yes, like you can quote them,but do the, do it in your own
voice.
Yes, I think.
I think the the negativepatient experience, the conflict
question, is tough because youdon't want to look super
negative like you're complaining.
So you have to choose, chooseyour story carefully and choose
how you word it really carefully, put a positive spin on it.
(16:53):
Would you say in yourexperience that most interviews
start off with the question tellme about yourself.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, and how would you go?
What's your advice foranswering that question?
I guess, as a part B, do mostof the interviews that you sit
in on start that way, and if so,how do you suggest answering
that question?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
The framework that I've found is kind of helpful to
think about is almost as if,instead of tell me about
yourself, it's sort of like whyare you here today?
Like, what are you looking for?
How did you get into this?
Kind of like, tell me about thestory of you in nursing.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So most people follow kind of a formula of you know
name, where they went to schoolwhen they graduated.
I think it can be reallyhelpful in building that rapport
and being more of like a personwith a story than just a
candidate.
In a time slot to talk about,like what initially got you into
nursing right, you were takingcare of your aunt or your
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grandma or I don't know, maybeyou had an illness or you know,
everyone brings their own reallyinteresting story.
There's so many differentexamples.
Immediately within the first 30seconds, you're a person with a
story you know.
So it kind of helps build thatlike person to person connection
.
So, talking about how youinitially even because you know
(18:22):
if you want to help people youcould have been a social worker,
right, If you really lovemedicine, you could have been a
doctor like why nursing of allthings, Like what gave you that
idea?
And then what were kind of thejobs or the volunteer
experiences that solidified foryou and why, Like, yes, nursing
is what I want to go into, right.
And then the next part is kindof gearing up towards that, that
(18:44):
you tailor it to that specificjob, how in school you realized
you loved whatever it is,whether it's PEDs or ICU, like
what rotation was the mostsimilar?
And talk about why you thrivedin that environment.
Was it that you loved you knowthe critical thinking aspect and
like being challenged andworking in a fast-paced
environment.
Or you really enjoyed workingwith children and like talk
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about how great that experiencewas to kind of make them see
like, oh, this unit would bereally good for this nurse,
Right, this would be a good fit.
And they can kind of likevisually picture that.
And then this part of theformula is sort of why this
hospital?
Right, like if you Google likethe hospital name and then
nursing careers, you can kind ofskim and get some ideas of what
(19:30):
are their, what are they pridethemselves on, and maybe pick
one or two words that you'relike I really respect that and
talk about it and some peoplewrap it up by you know some sort
of gratitude piece of howgrateful they are to be here
today talking to or thank youfor giving me the chance to
speak with you.
I'm so excited to get to knowmore about you.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah, I love that's a really good formula and it's
specific.
That's what's good, because Ithink some people can go off on
a tangent just rambling, and soI think, if you hit boom, boom,
boom, I actually led with thegratitude thing because I saw so
many interviews where peopleare just like my name is this
and I graduated from here, andso I just wanted to come right
(20:12):
out and just say well, first ofall, I'm so excited to be here.
You know, I'm so excited tomeet you and I had done my
research like crazy, but Ididn't rattle off the mission
statement.
I worked in some of the corevalues that they had, with my
core values.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
And like having a like.
If that flow comes morenaturally to you, it's good that
it's a little bit differentthan like.
You don't want everyonefollowing this same formula.
And then knowing a little bitabout the hospital.
It doesn't just sound likeyou're just going wherever you
reach out to you Like you are.
This is something that you knowwhat it's going to be, and it's
something that you know you'regoing to like, rather than I'm
(20:51):
just going to go wherever hemails me back.
I just want a job, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, for sure.
So I know that this is on yourYouTube channel, but what are
some of the most commonquestions that people should
have in their tool bell Like?
What are like?
Without a doubt, you will verylikely be asked boom, boom, boom
.
What are some of those commonquestions in your experience?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
In my videos.
I like to kind of go in thatorder because I know most people
won't make it through the wholevideo, so I want them to get
like at least the most likelyquestions.
So most likely obviously is thetell me about yourself A lot of
hospitals ask about.
They want sort of that sweetstory of you know a special
moment you had with a patientand that could look like tell me
about a time you went above andbeyond or, yeah, about a time
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you provided compassionate care.
Another super common theme islike related to mistakes and
feedback.
So they can ask you know a timethat you made a mistake and how
?
In the kind of the points fromthat are usually about like how
you made change, how you tookaccountability, made changes
going forward.
It's not enough to just likelist a story about a mistake.
It's like that kind of afterpiece.
(21:59):
That's the critical part.
And then the feedback story isthey want to know that they're
hiring someone who is open tofeedback, who really wants to
learn from their preceptor andtheir peers.
And then conflict is sort ofanother genre of questions,
right, and then they have to aska question about conflict with
a coworker, with a supervisor,with a doctor.
(22:22):
So have you know conflict story?
And if it's not exactly thekind of like let's say yours was
about a coworker and they won'twant about a doctor you can say
like is it okay if I you know,tell this other sort of version
of you know most of the time.
And then other common ones, thesort of culturally conversant
(22:43):
care like diversity type ofstory is often asked about, and
it's not enough to just say Iused a translator once, like
they want to like help to bringwhat's important to that person,
because you listen to what'simportant to them, to their
bedside care yes, what you enjoydoing that.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
And then I know a lot of people who got that question
.
Yeah, yeah yeah, People ask andthen there's always like a
difficult patient.
Tell me about a difficultpatient.
A lot of people got A difficultpatient.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Oh my gosh.
Yes, like almost everyinterview.
And then there's also like,let's say, you're going for a
pediatrics type of interview.
They'll likely ask tell meabout a time you had a difficult
family member or a time youprovide family centered care
which is sort of the familyversion of the above and beyond
Right.
Other super common questions.
There's always the strengthsand weaknesses.
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Why should we choose you?
Where do you see yourself inone in five years?
Yes, and then oftentimes, at theend they'll say what questions
do you have for us?
So have a couple of questionsprepared that way.
But if you have good storiesfor them and also have a story
about a critical patient,because, if you don't do that
and someone else does, it kindof seems like they can be
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trusted in an emergency, whereasthey don't know if they can
trust you in an emergency,because you've never told a
story about a time when youhandle the emergency.
Well, what?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
do you mean Right?
What would you say to somebodywho's minutes away from walking
into an interview and they arejust super nervous.
What would you say to thatperson?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I don't know where I got this tip.
It's the tip that, for somereason, was the one tip I needed
when I was going into myinterview.
I wish I'd googled to try tofigure out where I got this from
, because I had done anextensive search of possible
questions and tips.
It was to try to projectopenness and warmth Because for
some reason I can't be nervousand also project warmth at the
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same time.
It's like one cancels out theother.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
So if I just focused on being warm.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
The nerves took a back seat for the moment.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That's great.
I've never heard it put thatway before.
That's really good.
Do you see any common themes ormistakes that are just so
preventable, just kind of likebonehead mistakes kind of thing?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
When they sound too rehearsed.
That's something that it's hardto tell someone.
I don't believe anything thatyou just told me right now
because you sound like you'rejust like reading everything I'm
sure you mentioned it, but itdoesn't come across as genuine
and it's really hard to coachsomeone out of that because it's
a.
Thing that people do whenthey're nervous to be safe
(25:29):
behind that and what?
they'll say is I'm sorry, I'mjust so nervous.
So that's a common thing thatis avoidable.
With and having a recording ofyourself answering these
questions, it's always hard, Idon't know.
For me it's hard to watchmyself talk on video.
But it can be helpful for newgrads to see am I coming across
rehearsed?
(25:50):
How does it look when Igenuinely smile, when I'm
animated and telling a story?
Other kind of don'ts, obviousthings like swearing or oh my
gosh, yeah, being late, or Imean sometimes you'll hear I'll
work with new grads who saythings where it'll be like how
(26:10):
would your last manager describeyou?
And oh, I was often late.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Things where you're like come on, don't tell them
that, no that seems prettyobvious that you wouldn't say
that, but yeah, I could see somepeople.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I think it's good for people to bring a little bit of
themselves into what they wear.
Like, if you want to go tosuper professional business sort
of like Blazer and Blouse kindof route, that's great.
If you want to wear a dress,whatever you look professional
but comfortable in.
That maybe shows a little bitof your personality.
(26:46):
When I interviewed, I chose alight blue gray suit with a
white top.
I feel like the blue is alittle bit bold, but I matched
my resume colors and I don'tknow.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, I like putting a little bit of your personality
into it, because a lot ofpeople are just going to wear
the black blazer, black pantskind of thing or skirt.
I wore a pink shirt under myblazer, so there was a pop of
color too.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, I love that I did choose to go with blots
instead of heels, just because,I don't know, I just felt like I
would move a little bit morecomfortably.
That way, I'm going to saywhatever is going to make you
feel comfortable and you'regoing to look like you, feel
like yourself.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, don't wear heels if you're not used to
wearing heels.
I wore flats too, because Iknew they were giving me a tour
of the hospital and I didn'twant to be like limping all over
the hospital if I wasn't usedto these shoes.
So be comfortable butprofessional, I think, is really
solid advice.
So, mary, thank you so much.
(27:54):
This has been so helpful.
I know you've already helped somany new grads and I know
you're going to continue to, sojust keep on doing what you're
doing and crushing it.
It's just amazing what you'redoing.
I'm so impressed and I justlove it.
If you want to see more fromMary, you can go to her YouTube
(28:16):
channel.
It's NewGrad Nursing InterviewCoach, and that's also your
Instagram handle, and I'll putall of this in the description
of the show, along with youremail and your website, if
anybody wants to get in touchwith you.
Highly highly recommend.
So, mary, thanks again so much.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Right.
Thank you for meeting with me,lauren.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Absolutely have an awesome afternoon and I'll talk
to you later.
I'll talk to you too.
Bye, Mary.
Thank you so much for joiningus today and for all of you out
there who have an interviewcoming up for your first nursing
job, please go to Mary'sYouTube channel, NewGrad Nursing
Interview Coach, or you can goto her website,
(28:59):
newgradnursinginterviewcoachcom,and she offers one-on-one
private coaching.
That would be an amazing,incredible way to prepare for an
upcoming interview, but you canalso listen to every video that
she has on YouTube and learnfrom the other mock interviews
(29:21):
that she has on there.
She's an incredible resourcefor you guys and I hope that you
take full advantage.
So until next time, guys.
This is Nurse Lauren.
It is my personal mission tohelp put more great nurses into
the world.
Thank you all so much for yoursupport in helping me to do that
and have an amazing day.
Bye-bye.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Thanks for tuning in to the Nursing Student Coach
Podcast.
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