Personal experience interview

Question 1

Greatest weakness

Authoratative in leadership roles

Answer 1

• Generate good ideas, sometimes not as assertive as I could be
• Jazz Band manager - successful year but choices about concert venues, repertoire, and rehearsal focus were not as efficient as they could be
• Reflected on importance of making firm decisions and confidence in situations requiring clear direction
• Recent quality improvement
• Collaborative, listened to the team, but guided the process and was firm relating to final decisions such as project topic, data collection processs and presentation style in a way that took the whole team’s ideas into consideration.
• Continue to grow and I continue to seek leadership opporunities to develop my skills

Question 2

Greatest weakness

Software experience

Answer 2

• Focus on medicine for the past 10 years - tendency to deskill software skills
• Seek projects that require more IT and tech so I can keep them up and strengthen them
• Audit on management of malaria
• Analysed and presented data using R programming language
• Used online tutorials and resources to teach myself
• This was dissertation for iBSc and received 1st Class Honours
• Whilst developed competency in certain tools, there are more languages and tech skills that are necessary to learn, especially given their increasing relevance in the modern world

Question 3

Greatest strength
Greatest weakness
Motivating others

Burning out

Answer 3

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Question 4

Greatest strength

Open-minded - Jazz Band

Answer 4

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