25 Campus Tour Guides Interview Questions & Answers
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If you want to ace your upcoming interview, practice with our topical-based interview question sets.
Gain further insight into your interview by practicing from one of the following careers
We hand picked these industries based on your career that might help you prepare for your interview
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Interviewing in front of a tour operator is hard! There you sit, across the table from the person who will decide your fate. Will you get that dream travel job, or will you freeze and panic after the first question? To help you feel better prepared for a hiring conference, we invited Danny from Hemisphere Travel to watch tour directors respond to real interview question! Watch our one-hour video session above, and a huge thanks to the guides who volunteered! We also polled tour operators from across the industry, and asked tour directors and guides, too, to tell us questions that they ask or have been asked. At the bottom of this post are a whole array of interview questions you can practice with.
Do you have any red flags?
The two most obvious red flags are gaps in time of longer than three months when you cannot account for your activities or frequent jumps in career without any real explanation for these changes. Both of these factors suggest a lack of commitment or some possible underlying problem. Students who cannot communicate or are extremely nervous or anxious also raise concern.
Interviewers are also trying to identify any major personality disorder or psychopathology that may hinder a candidate’s ability not only to interact with patients and colleagues but the ability to get through medical school and residency.
Other common “red flags” include a low grade, GPA, or MCAT score, an institutional action or withdrawals from classes but, typically, if you were invited for an interview, these issues were not considered major. That said, you should be able to give explanations for the flaws in your application without making excuses.
The MMI (Multiple Mini Interview)
The multiple mini interview was developed in Canada, and more and more medical schools in the United States use it. Students rotate through a variety of “stations,” remaining at each for eight to 10 minutes to address a particular question, complete a task, or work with another student. For example, the interviewer may give you a scenario and ask how you would behave, how you might describe the situation to a person involved in the scenario or how you would interpret the issues the scenario presents.
In general, these mini interviews are designed to evaluate your professionalism, communication skills, ability to work with a team, compassion, and ability to consider all aspects of a situation. This type of interview is becoming increasingly more common in the US.