1. Review your application form
Ensure that you can
expand on answers from your form and provide additional examples
for the questions from your portfolio
2. Organise your portfolio in advance
3. Anticipate interview questions
- Use the person specification for
psychiatry
- Read up on key topics
concerning psychiatry, both in mainstream news and the
medical/psychiatric literature
- Ask your seniors for advice.
- Look at the Royal College of
Psychiatrists website
4. Consider questions you could ask or would like to ask
Only ask questions that have not been answered
elsewhere and that are appropriate.
5. Practice your interview technique
Answer specifically, using a structure if
necessary, and keep answers to 1½ - 2 minutes.
6. Dress Appropriately
Wear smart and comfortable clothes, which will
help boost your confidence.
7. Arrive in plenty of time and organise transport in
advance
8. Relax
9. Be yourself
10. Think positively. You have made it to interview - they think
you can do the job, so prove that you can
Page last updated on 22 May
by E Baker-Glenn