Health Service Administration Interview Questions

• What prompted your interest in healthcare?
• What experience do you have in the field?
• What specific area of healthcare are you targeting in your search?
• Pull courses from your curriculum that you think will be valuable in the job that you hope to pursue.
• As an administrator, how would you reconcile business and humanitarian concerns regarding managed care?
• What are the attributes of management success in the healthcare industry?
• Where/How have you developed these attributes?
• How do you function in a group? Give examples of teamwork.
• Did you ever think of pursuing a career in medicine as a health services professional?
• What are the most important issues emerging in healthcare management? Prioritize them.
• Choose one of these and give some recommendations on addressing it.
• What functional skills will you bring to a hospital environment?
• What prompted you to pursue a career in health care?
• How would you describe yourself?
• What do you consider to be your greatest weakness?
• How would you describe the ideal job for you following graduation?
• What class have you taken that you feel will be the most beneficial to you?
• What specific area of healthcare are you targeting?
• Why should I hire you?
• Describe your most rewarding college experience.
• Why did you choose to attend SRU?
• What 2 or 3 things are most important to you in your job?
• What are the most important issues emerging in health care management? Prioritize
• them.
• Choose one of these issues and give some recommendations on addressing it.
• If you could do so, how would you plan your academic study differently and why?
• What do you really want to do in life?
• How well do you think your experiences have prepared you for a career in healthcare?
• How do you plan to achieve your career objectives?
• What motivates you to put forth your greatest effort?
• What have you learned from your mistakes?
• Is there anything not on your resume that you would like to tell me?
• Are you willing to spend at least six months as a trainee?
• What are the components of a quality health education program? How would you prioritize these components, along with giving justification for your choices?
• What are the top three goals of your health education program?
• How would you describe developmentally appropriate curriculum?
• Do you have any ideas about how we might promote our health education program to the community?
• How do you plan to assess the progress of your clients in health education?
• Do you have any experience in using technology in your programming? Please provide an example.
• What professional organizations do you belong to? What professional journals do you read?
• Are there other things that you would like to share with us that will help us understand your philosophy of health education?
• How do you see the National Health Education standards affecting your teaching or programming?
• Choose one health content area. Using that area, what are some ways you could collaborate with other colleagues in programming?
• What are two different strategies you could use to make your learning environment emotionally healthy for all of your constituents?
• If you had to choose three health-related incidents that have most influenced the type of health educator you have become, which ones would you pick and why?