How to pick great examples to use in your consultant interview

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How to pick great examples to use in your consultant interview

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Written on 15/09/2021
, Last updated 23/04/2024

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Team DFTB . How to pick great examples to use in your consultant interview, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2021. Available at: https://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.34704

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In any medical job interview you are going to be asked a question that starts ‘tell me about an example where…’.

How do we choose the best examples? We want to choose something that makes us seen confident and vulnerable but not too arrogant or fallible.

In our latest YouTube video, Tessa Davis shares her strategies to choose the best examples for interview.

Join the waitlist for Tessa’s Ace Your Consultant Interview Academy

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