☛ What are the skills necessary to become an occupational therapist?

☛ What work experience do you have that is relevant to occupational therapy?

☛ What is your opinion on how an occupational therapy team should function?

☛ What do you think are the three most important skills necessary for success in occupational therapy?

☛ What contribution could you make to our team that other applicants cannot?

☛ What do you think the therapist's role would be like in this setting?

☛ What are the factors of effective occupational therapy?

☛ What are the benefits and the challenges for each of these factors?

☛ Describe a time when you delivered a positive experience for the patient.

☛ Tell me a situation where you managed risk effectively, explaining the situation, the opportunity you had to manage successfully, the action you took and the results.

☛ How would you respond to someone who was verbally hostile towards you?

☛ Describe how you address concerns from a frustrated patient or the patient's family.

☛ Tell me about a standardized assessment you have used.

☛ How do you cope with an overwhelming workload?

☛ Do you mind being supervised?

☛ What kind of management style suits your personality and your work style?

☛ Describe what you learned from your previous job.

☛ What is an effective method you have used to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients?

☛ How have you helped coach or mentor someone? What kind of improvement did you observe?

☛ How would you apply new technology or information to your position? How do you stay up-to-date on new technology relevant to occupational therapy?

☛ Do you enjoy working in a rapidly evolving workplace?

☛ Do you deal well with change?

☛ What kind of feedback do you prefer from your supervisor or manager?

☛ How do you balance cooperation with others and independent thinking?

☛ Tell me about an effective health promotion program you developed and/or participated in.

☛ Are you comfortable communicating realistic goals and progress with a patient and his family? Describe a time when you communicated what you believed were realistic goals, and the patient expressed different goals. How did you resolve the differences between your goals and the patient's goals.

☛ Tell me about the most recent seminar you attended.

☛ Does any particular type of patient interest you more than others?

☛ Would you be comfortable supervising assistants and aides?

☛ Describe a particularly difficult challenge that you helped a patient to overcome.