#9 Getting Through the Door
She had fourteen years of nursing experience, a CCM credential, and a polished resume. She walked into her managed care interview confident and walked out with a "we'll be in touch" that led nowhere. Her mistake: she prepared for a clinical nursing interview and sat for a managed care one — two different evaluations most candidates don't realize are different until it's too late.This book gives you the hiring side's playbook. You'll learn the six competency domains every managed care interview actually evaluates, and how to translate bedside experience into the language that clears both applicant tracking systems and a hiring manager's fifteen-second resume scan. You'll get the phone screen questions you will definitely be asked, why "I would" answers lose to "I did" answers, and the specific red flags candidates send without knowing it.The core of the book covers what most candidates walk in unprepared for: behavioral questions built on the STAR format (adapted for outcomes that are often invisible or delayed), and the clinical role-play scenario that surprises nearly every unready candidate in the room. You'll learn exactly what evaluators score in that role play — engagement quality, genuine MI technique versus disguised education delivery, clinical judgment, and composure under friction — plus the specific questions to ask that signal real readiness, and how to evaluate a job offer before you accept it.Part of the Getting In Bundle (Books 1–10). This book stands entirely on its own.K.C. Hanson, MPH, BSN, RN, CCM built and led telephonic case management teams at one of the top three regional health plans — meaning she has been the hiring manager, phone screener, and panel interviewer for hundreds of managed care nursing candidates. This book is written from that side of the desk.
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