Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson College of Pharmacy Interview Questions

Understanding of Pharmacy and Motivation for Thomas Jefferson University

• What do you know about our organisation?
• Why did you choose Thomas Jefferson University? Why did you choose your major?
• Tell me how you found out about our organisation.

Personal Characteristics and Self-Evaluation

• How would a faculty member or a friend describe you?
• What are your strengths? Weaknesses?
• Tell me about a time when you were disappointed in your own performance.
• Tell me about a time when you felt disappointed in your own performance.

Leadership

• Tell me about your leadership experience.
• What leadership skills do you possess? Describe a specific time when you used your leadership skills.
• Describe a time when you demonstrated effective leadership skills.

Career Goals and Motivation for Pharmacy

• Why should I hire you? In what ways can you contribute to this organisation?
• What is your greatest accomplishment and why?
• Why did you change careers? What made you leave the field of accounting to become a cytotechnologist?
• Pick a situation in your clinical/fieldwork/internship/clerkship when you demonstrated initiative and were satisfied with the result.

Conflict Resolution

• Tell me about a time when you disagreed with a faculty member or supervisor. What was the situation and how was it resolved?

Situational Judgement Scenarios

• I am going to give you a scenario about Mr. Brown. He is a 46-year old patient with lung cancer. You walk into his room and you see that he has not eaten any of his dinner. What is the first step you would take in regard to this situation?

Teamwork

• Tell me about a situation when you provided full support for a team decision, even though you didn’t necessarily agree with it.

Communication

• Careful listening and effective communication go together. Tell us about a specific time when your skill in listening helped you communicate better.

Decision-Making and Problem-Solving:

• When we get emotionally involved in a problem situation, it is often difficult to be objective. Tell us about a time when you were proud of your ability to be objective even though you were emotional about a problem situation.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Please provide an example that shows your skill in interacting with people who have different values or perspectives than you.

Patient/Client Focus

• Describe a single time when you delivered service in a way that clearly showed care and concern for another individual.
• Describe a time when you advocated for a patient or client.

Initiative/Creativity

• Pick a situation in your clinical/fieldwork/internship/clerkship when you demonstrated initiative and were satisfied with the result.

Competency

• Tell me about a time when you employed the use of evidence-based practice.

General

• Tell me about yourself.
• If I talked to your clinical instructor about your performance, what would he/she say?