Dietary Aide Interview Preparation Guide

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This question simply tries to determine if the person being interviewed has done their homework. An exceptional candidate will be able to deliver a lot of information about the company, but mostly this eliminates people who didn’t even bother to do minimal checking – these are people we don’t want. In other words, before you go to an interview, know what the organization is.

This works well for some positions – technical ones and leadership ones – and not well for others. It should be pretty obvious from the type of job you’re applying for whether this question might be asked. If it is, it’s easy to prepare for – just spend a half an hour reading some blogs on the specific areas you’re applying for and you’ll have some food.

Mostly, this is looking for conviction of character. A strong, concrete answer of any reasonable sort is good here. “I wanted to move on” is not a strong answer. Downsizing is a good answer, as is a desire to seek specific new challenges (but be specific on what challenges you want to face). Minimize your actual discussion of your previous position here, as you’ll be very close to a big opportunity to start bashing your previous position.

This is actually something of a trick question, because it’s just a way of re-asking the second question (what you know about the company) and the fourth (what you know about the position). It’s asked because it tells whether people give flippant answers to questions (things like “because I’m a people person”) or whether they think about things and give a genuine question. This is a good question to formulate an answer for in advance – basically, just come up with a few things that seem intriguing to you about the company and the position and reasons why they interest you.

Although it’s fine to list a technical skill or two here, particularly if your job is very technical, it’s very important to mention some non-technical things. “I learned how to work in a team environment after mostly working in solo environments” is a good one, for example. There should be no job where you learned nothing, and the interviewer is expecting that you learned at least a few things at your previous employment that will help at your current one.

This is a “homework” question, too, but it also gives some clues as to the perspective the person brings to the table. The best preparation you can do is to read the job description and repeat it to yourself in your own words so that you can do this smoothly at the interview.

This is probably the most difficult questions to deal with during a job interview. The wrong response can alert the recruiter instantly that you aren't the right candidate for the job.

All fresh vegetables are best for your diet; it comprises of all essential nutrients like fiber, potassium, folic acid, vitamin A, vitamin C and most important range of anti-oxidant, which can reduce the risk of cancer.

Never say this job. Never say another specific job. Both answers are very bad – the first one sends the warning flags flying and the second one says that the person’s not really interested in sticking around. Instead, stick to specific traits – name aspects of what would be your dream job. Some of them should match what the company has available, but it’s actually best if they don’t all perfectly match.

I am an active listener and a people oriented person. I like to help others when needed, maintain a positive environment, and leave people with constructive solutions. I am flexible about feedbacks and have the ability to share my thoughts and opinions with the respect of the team.

A recruiter is going to take you at your word if you say your best strength is managing people. This is a great skill to have if you're applying for a managerial or team leader position, but if you're applying for an administrative assistant position, it could be a potential red flag. In this case, the recruiter might have concerns that you won't take instructions from someone else. A better strength for an administrative assistant is the ability to multi-task effectively. This demonstrates to the recruiter that you can work in a fast-paced, time-sensitive position and do the work others require of you. Again, frame your answer to fulfill what you perceive to be the biggest challenge in the job.

Demonstrates the candidate’s organizational skills.

The answer is usually already known to the interviewer based on the resume, but this is a chance for you to really sell yourself. Most interviewers will usually sit back and see how well you can sell. On occasion, surprises can be good here, but this can be tricky – if it’s something that should have been on your resume, why was it not on your resume? You’re better off knowing what the cream of the crop of your resume is and just listing it out.

I used to be a Co-coordinator for S.N.D.A club at Fresno State. I provided people as much information as possible about nutrition, monthly cancer awareness and any general health topics. I tried to provide helpful and practical tips related to their daily lifestyles. I helped my Coordinator brainstormed about our weekly events and helped influenced our student community to eat a healthier meal.

Highlights the candidate’s previous work experience.

The role of both nutritionist and dietitian are same, they both are healthcare professionals and give vital information on healthy eating habits and dietary supplements, dietician can be a nutritionist but not all nutritionist are dieticians. Dietician are registered and nationally recognized while nutritionist is more general.

Tests the candidate’s communication and interpersonal skills.

☛ Are you able to prepare basic meals? How would you rate your skills?
☛ How does a dietary aide ensure cleanliness and sanitation?
☛ What would you do with leftover food?
☛ How do you ensure that residents with dietary restrictions receive the correct serving?
☛ Do you think it’s important to communicate with residents as a dietary aide? Why?
☛ What do you think are common safety issues in a kitchen? What would you do to avoid them?
☛ Have you ever had to deal with difficult coworkers? How did you handle it?
☛ If a client started complaining about the food, what would you do?
☛ Imagine you don’t have information about a resident’s dietary requirements and they aren’t able to give you any. What do you do?
☛ If two other dietary aides didn’t show up for work and food had to be served as always, how would you handle it?

BMR means Basal Metabolic Rate; it is an energy expressed in calories that the body requires to keep it functioning at rest.

These two questions simply seek to figure out what kind of management style will work best for this person and also how that person is likely to manage people. Let’s say I work in an organization with a very loose-knit management structure that requires a lot of self-starting. If that’s the case, I want to either hear that the “best” boss was very hands-off or that the “worst” boss was a micromanager. On the other hand, if I came from a strict hierarchical organization, I might want to see the exact opposite – a “best” boss that provided strong guidance and a good relationship or a “worst” boss that basically left the applicant to blow in the wind. Your best approach is to answer this as honestly as possible – the interviewer will have a good idea of the corporate culture and, frankly, if you try to slip into a company where you don’t match the culture, you’ll have a very hard time fitting in and succeeding. These questions might be worded as “what kind of management style works for you.”

Highlights the candidate’s ability to maintain a clean environment.

The interviewer could usually care less what the exact project is. The question is mostly looking to see if you have faced serious difficulty and how you overcame it. For most people, this isn’t their biggest success or biggest failure, but something that they turned from a likely failure into some sort of success.

I am familiar with any menu planning systems. When I took a Sport and Nutrition Class, my teammates and I was assigned to come up with a diet plan for our imaginary young wrestler. I learned to used cengage program to input the food and drink intake in order to calculate it's macro-nutrients, micro-nutrients, and other nutrition values. I also, did my own 3-days diet analysis; where I try to maintain my daily calories including my daily movements.

It’s usually good to pair these questions, but the important one is the biggest failure. The best applicant is usually someone who will admit that they made a disaster out of something (they’re fairly honest and willing to admit errors) and that they learned from it, an incredibly important trait.

This question mostly looks for honesty and for the realization that most conflicts have two sides to a story. It also opens the door for people with poor character to start bashing their previous employer, something which leaves a bad taste in most interviewers’ mouths. The best way to answer usually involves telling the story, but showing within it that there are two sides to that story and that you’ve learned from the experience to try to see the other person’s perspective.