Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (VRT) Interview Questions

16 Provide an example when your ethics were tested.
17 Name a time when your advice to management led to an improvement in your company or otherwise helped your employer.
18 Tell me about a time when you developed your own way of doing things or were self-motivated to finish an important task.
19 How do you balance cooperation with others and independent thinking? Share an example. (Try to determine if the candidate has a cooperative attitude or is otherwise good-natured.)
20 Provide a time when you worked in a rapidly evolving workplace. How did you deal with the change? (Make sure the candidate is flexible.)
21 What is the most challenging part of training clients with visual impairments to use mobility devices or systems such as human guides, dog guides, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs)?
22 Share an experience in which your understanding of a current or upcoming problem helped your company to respond to the problem.
23 Name a time when your patience was tested. How did you keep your emotions in check?
24 What kind of experience do you have training clients to read or write Braille?
25 Describe methods you have found useful to train clients to use adaptive equipment such as large print, reading stands, lamps, writing implements, software, and electronic devices.
26 When is the last time you developed rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals? Were you successful?
27 Walk me through how you would collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.
28 Please share with me an example of how you helped coach or mentor someone. What improvements did you see in the person's knowledge or skills?
29 Share a time when you willingly took on additional responsibilities or challenges. How did you successfully meet all of the demands of these responsibilities? (Make sure the candidate is a self-starter and can demonstrate some initiative.)
30 Please share an experience in which you successfully taught a difficult principle or concept. How were you able to be successful?