Rehabilitation Counselor Interview Questions

16 Provide an experience in which you were sensitive to somone's needs or feelings. How did your helpfulness affect your work environment?
17 Provide an example when your ethics were tested.
18 Provide a time when you dealt calmly and effectively with a high-stress situation.
19 Name a time when you identified strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions to problems. What was the impact?
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 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.)
22 What is the most challenging part of arranging for physical, mental, academic, vocational, and other evaluations to obtain information for assessing clients' needs and developing rehabilitation plans?
23 Share an example when you successfully maintained close contact with clients during job training and placements to resolve problems and evaluate placement adequacy.
24 What factors do you consider when developing rehabilitation plans that fit clients' aptitudes, education levels, physical abilities, and career goals?
25 Tell me about a time when you developed your own way of doing things or were self-motivated to finish an important task.
26 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.)
27 What is the key to success with locating barriers to client employment, such as inaccessible work sites, inflexible schedules, and transportation problems, and work with clients to develop strategies for overcoming these barriers?
28 What have you found to be the best way to develop and maintain relationships with community referral sources, such as schools and community groups?
29 Share an experience in which your willingness to lead or offer an opinion helped your company.
30 Provide a time when you were able to identify a complex problem, evaluate the options, and implement a solution. How did the solution benefit your employer?