Interview Tips

• Use MapQuest to verify route and travel time needed to arrive on time
• Dress professionally – read “Act the Part” in Today in PT magazine
• Print out an extra copy of your resume
• Bring a handout of any projects you completed during your clinical affiliations, such as a newsletter article, in-service handout, or home exercise program diagram

• Yourself – character, motivations, philosophies
• Your strengths and weaknesses
• Your accomplishments
• Why you want this particular job in this practice setting
• What you have to offer the facility
• Your short- and long-term career goals (what do you see yourself doing in one year? Five years?)

• Your age
• Your marital status
• Your ethnic background
• Your plans for having a family
• How old your children are
• Your spouse’s job

• Anticipated work hours and whether you will be compensated on an hourly or salary basis
• Size and type of patient caseload
• Whether there is an expectation for employees to float between facilities
• How much supervision is available, and if students will be mentored with difficult patient cases
• Why this job opening exists, and why the last PT/PTA left the position
• How much time is devoted to documentation, and when that time is provided (during lunch, at the end of the day, etc.)
• Frequency and availability of staff in-services
• Continuing education benefits (dollars and days per year)
• Expectation of participation in community and physician PR
• When position is available

• Sign-on bonus
• The compensation package
• Hourly/salary rate
• Continuing education reimbursement (fees and days off)
• Professional membership dues