Human Service Supervisor Interview Paper

You are a human service supervisor interviewing a candidate for an entry-level position in your agency that serves children and families. The interview should examine the potential staff person’s background, interest, and skills relevant to the position, as well as their long-term professional goals.

Questions asked: Some not all
• Tell me about yourself.
• Why are you interested in this agency?
• How does working in this organization fit your professional mission?
• What are your experiences with the target population?
• Why do you want to work with this target population?
• Can you work on your own/self starter?
• How has your education/work experience prepared you for this position?
• What do you hope to accomplish while at this agency?
• What are some of the things that you would you like to learn here?
• Have you
ever done this type of work?
• How are you about working under pressure
• Have you ever had a disagreement over a treatment plan? Tell me about yourself.
• Why are you interested in this agency?
• How does the work in this organization fit your professional mission or experience?
• Why do you want this job? Why do you want to work for this organization?
• What are your experiences with the target population?
• Why do you want to work with this target population?
• What are your qualifications?
• What kind of supervision do you expect?
• How has your education/work experience prepared you for this position?
• What do you hope to accomplish at this agency?
• What would you like to learn here?
• Have you done this type of work in the past? Explain?
• Do you have any questions?

1) Where there any patterns of responses noted by the human service supervisor on their self-assessments? Yes being relaxed and keeping the interview on task. I loosened up as the interview went on I kind of let it get off course a tad bit.

2) Where there any patterns of responses noted by the guest-reviewers on their assessments?
Yes, being nervous, friendly, more eye contact, greeting was great, did not have a lot of silence, needs to keep on target

3) What were some of the difficult parts of the role-plays for the interviewer/human service supervisor? Being relaxed so that the interview, keeping on target and keeping eye contact while taking notes

4) How did it feel to play the human service staff member and what did the interviewer/human service supervisor do or not do to help the interview process?
We actually turned the roles but did not make any assessment it was just as nerve racking as being the supervisor.

5) What general or specific things did the Learning Team learn during this exercise? I learned that it is not easy to interview a potential employee. It is nerve racking and takes practice so that everything goes smoothly

1) You are a human service supervisor interviewing a candidate for an entry-level position in your agency that serves children and families. The interview should examine the potential staff person’s background, interest, and skills relevant to the position, as well as their long-term professional goals.

Improvement Plan:
My goals are to improve on my interviewing skills this is something that comes with practice but if the organization is not hiring then I cannot get the practice so I will have someone do a mock interview with me I will do one a month and I think that recording it would defiantly help so that I can critique
myself.

I also need to make sure that I make eye contact with the person I am talking with and I can get the person that I am role-playing with makes sure I am making eye contact. Then over time it will become habit.

The next big issue is keeping my interviews on target they need to be to the point. If the interview strays then it looks like I am not very professional and that I do not know what I am doing.

Finally, I need to make sure I keep up with my friendliness and greeting everyone in a positive manner.