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How do you handle "serving two masters" (i.e. the company and the hospital client)? Mainly were textbook leadership questions that the HR recruiter is just asking and typing into the document to fwd on. Once you get past the HR recruiters, then hiring manager (and maybe you'll interview w/ the hospital client as well) will likely ask you much more pertinent questions to the job, such as "how do you (or tell me about a time when you) had to act independently without a lot of direct supervision, yet still deliver". Also, they may ask about your clinical experience if you come from outside the field, or marketing/business development/financial management background/client management experience if you come from outside of those disciplines. A lot of hiring managers focus on questions like "Tell me about a time you dealt with (or how would you deal with) a difficult/stubborn physician who was doing something problematic?" or questions along those lines. This is a big issue with the company so the good hiring managers will at least attempt to address them in the interview (though it's hard to tell what someone would do just based on their answer to a question in a face-to-face interview setting). At some point, for management positions, there were also personality profile/leadership style questions that you do online (quite long). These are mainly to defend against lawsuits, as most of the time by the time you get to taking those, the hiring manager has already made up their mind.
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Program Director

Interviewed at Healogics

2.9
Jul 29, 2016

How do you handle "serving two masters" (i.e. the company and the hospital client)? Mainly were textbook leadership questions that the HR recruiter is just asking and typing into the document to fwd on. Once you get past the HR recruiters, then hiring manager (and maybe you'll interview w/ the hospital client as well) will likely ask you much more pertinent questions to the job, such as "how do you (or tell me about a time when you) had to act independently without a lot of direct supervision, yet still deliver". Also, they may ask about your clinical experience if you come from outside the field, or marketing/business development/financial management background/client management experience if you come from outside of those disciplines. A lot of hiring managers focus on questions like "Tell me about a time you dealt with (or how would you deal with) a difficult/stubborn physician who was doing something problematic?" or questions along those lines. This is a big issue with the company so the good hiring managers will at least attempt to address them in the interview (though it's hard to tell what someone would do just based on their answer to a question in a face-to-face interview setting). At some point, for management positions, there were also personality profile/leadership style questions that you do online (quite long). These are mainly to defend against lawsuits, as most of the time by the time you get to taking those, the hiring manager has already made up their mind.

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