Friday, January 30, 2009

Talking about my research to "future" employers

Well i found out yesterday how cool it is to show how enthusiastic you are and passionate about OT in an area when you can talk about your research in a job interview!
Don't supose it will help much but if it doesnt do anything else at least it shows that im up to date on what currently is happening for new graduates in an acute physical setting.

So finished all my study and looking for a job - my interviw yesterday was in a rotation position at a large DHB. At the end i asked them if they would like to hear about my reserach findings and then follwing that i added how the research had imporoved my understanding and how it would aid a transtion or fitting into the setting. I added that if i was sucesful in the job that i would be more than happy to do an inservice to present my findings to the team. They commented that the reserach findings were really interesting and that i sounded very passionate about it - becuase it was a phone interview..
I emphasied that as a result of reflecting on the findings i was able to compare my professional practice to my study and realised that i had strenghts in some areas and could try out other strategies that had come been discovered.

Anyway fingers x-d