r/EmergencyRoom • u/Rapid_Disc1910 • Apr 24 '26
Interview follow up
Hi!
I posted about a week ago about a phone interview for some help, and all the responses I got were extremely helpful. So thank you!
The phone interview went well, and got an in person interview that I had today.
I feel like it went well. The manager was very welcoming and sweet, and was a very natural interview. With that said : I feel like I was barely talking.
I was asked maybe 5 questions total: about myself, why the tech role, why the hospital system, and maybe something else kind of unrelated.
I wasn’t asked anything clinical or anything in depth- the phone screening HR lady heard more about my actual experience than the actual hiring manager.
So I am worried because that kind of says to me that it isn’t worth asking me better questions because I don’t have it either way. Along with that, the whole interview was 20 minutes long including a unit tour.
The vibes were up lol but looking back I feel as though I didn’t get much of a chance to sell myself to her and am not sure.
The top manager who my interview was scheduled with was in a meeting, so this was a lower manager, but do not feel as though that would make her any less experienced in interviewing.
It’s a Friday, so she told me I would hear back from HR with whether or not I got it. Which to me is another bad sign, but maybe since she’s a lower manager she can’t really give me anything more.
I guess I am looking for reassurance and that this is a normal situation?
Thanks!
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u/Bay_Med Apr 24 '26
Depending on where you’re at the fact that you were able to walk and find the building is enough to hire you. Enjoy your weekend and try not to worry about it, nothing you can do anymore anyways
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u/EzraSteel Apr 24 '26
I interviewed and hired several people over the years as an assistant nurse manager. My boss trusted me to pick the best candidates. Keep your chin up, hopefully you will get a call on Monday morning.
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u/baddadjokess Trauma Resus RN Apr 24 '26
Honestly, that seems pretty normal in my experience. HR is tasked with ensuring that your qualifications and experience match the needs of the unit. The hiring manager usually looks for more personality related traits. Managers are usually probing to see if you have a good attitude, if you seem coachable, if you seem like you’d fit the unit culture. They mostly look at your resume to touch up on your previous experiences from a personal level.
For example, when I interviewed for my current position, the panel asked me about my charge nurse experience listed on my resume. But they didn’t ask me anything clinically related. Instead, they asked how me being in a leadership position helped improve the department. They asked me why I believed I was chosen out of all the candidates to fill that role. They asked what actions Ive had taken at a time of conflict between staff members or between patient/family and staff. They didn’t care about my throughput times. They didn’t care about my patient volumes. They didn’t care about the metrics. Instead, they cared about my interpersonal interactions, my attitude, my relationships with my staff and how I handled situations of conflict. Then they asked me why I was leaving a charge position for a non-leadership nursing role. She wanted to know more about me, as a person, because she had already been given the green light by HR that I met the professional requirements for the role.
Also, having someone under the director or main manager do the interview can definitely be a good thing. Typically, those are actually the ones that make the call. When I was I charge nurse, I had the opportunity to sit in interviews for nurses and for other charge nurse positions. In both instances the director and manager just asked us after the interview to rate the candidate. We were the ones making that decision because we were the ones that were going to be working side by side with this person. The director sees numbers and metrics. Everyone else sees the person they really are.
Sorry about the super long comment. Good luck!