I didn't have an interview as such for community, but boots incorporated it into the very grand sounding "Gateway topre-reg" summer scheme that i did last year. They split their assessment into 7 categories, things like taking action, showing you can offer good customer service and that you are helpful, showing that you are able to identify your weaker areas, and that you can show how you took action to address your weaknesses. You have to give various examples of certain situations you've been in and how you've successfully dealt with them.
The hospital interviews i had were more varied, one panel asked a lot about what action i'd take in certain situations, eg "You are the pharmacist on the ward, a junior doctor wishes to give a dose of a drug, whihc you know to be potentially dangerous, but on informing them of this, they choose to ignore your advice. What do you do?"
Other things asked on the hospital interviews were things like what is the agenda for change, i got asked about how skils i gained working in a restaurant may be transferred to a pharmaceutical context. They asked too about how i'd developed through the course and what skills had i learnt that would make me a good pharmacist and similar to the boots assesment, asked how i identified areas of weakness and how i addresseed them.
I'll write more about the boots one tomorrow; its my graduation tomorrow morning so i'm off to get the train to manchester :-D
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