0:02 hi everyone welcome to my YouTube
0:04 channel I know I've not been able to
0:06 make any video you know for some time
0:09 now is because I have been very busy but
0:11 anyway um I'm here today to talk to us
0:14 about something very important and this
0:16 is because I've reflected on what
0:18 happened in
0:21 2023 and two good BMS has helped a lot
0:24 of people to get job okay both within
0:25 and outside United
0:28 Kingdom but while that is the case some
0:31 people you know still strugg and I have
0:33 reflected on the feedback you know that
0:35 some of you guys have given and I've
0:38 come to something that I think might be
0:40 the problem so hopefully we're going to
0:42 discuss today on how to answer
0:46 biomedical scientist interview questions
0:48 before we go on I want to say happy New
0:51 Year okay and hopefully 2024 will bring
0:54 more success on each of our ways my name
0:56 is Dr emman Lodo I'm a biomedical
0:57 scientist and I'm a lecturer in
0:59 biomedical science here in the United
1:02 Kingdom so now let us look at when you
1:04 go for biom medical scientist job
1:07 interview and a question comes there are
1:10 few things that can help you to enhance
1:14 or increase your chances now you know
1:17 that many of us have got experiences I
1:20 want to believe okay the only difference
1:22 is that the experience you have got
1:24 possibly maybe in your home country
1:27 might be different the way we practice
1:30 here in the United Kingdom or iseland or
1:33 us or Canada or Australia as the case
1:36 may be now that is why I want to brid
1:39 the Gap okay now and because of that
1:42 when you are answering questions one of
1:44 the things that you must learn to have
1:47 is to be relaxed when I mean relax I
1:50 mean you need to try and be composed
1:52 don't try to be nervous when you are
1:55 answering questions that way your brain
1:58 is likely to remember something you know
2:01 um maybe that you are likely to forget
2:03 now another thing I want to bring out
2:05 there is the fact that you need to know
2:07 that biomedical
2:10 scientist profession is a practical
2:13 profession it's an evidencebased
2:15 profession is a clinical profession
2:18 which has to do with practical okay that
2:21 mean there has to be activities before a
2:25 result can be generated now before I
2:27 also go further can I also say that you
2:29 know in biomedical science as a
2:31 biomedical scientist one of the things
2:33 you are trying to do is to investigate
2:36 the results that you have obtained
2:39 whether or not is appropriate for that
2:41 patient okay what it means that a
2:44 biomedical scientist have to investigate
2:47 the result to see that it is genuine for
2:50 that patient okay what that means is
2:52 that is a practical profession and
2:54 because he a practical profession then
2:56 it means that when you want to answer
3:00 question don't base your question only
3:03 on theoretical knowledge also base your
3:06 question using practical knowledge what
3:09 I mean is that when you answer a
3:12 particular question always use for
3:15 example when you say for example what
3:17 you are doing is that you are providing
3:20 yourself an opportunity to be able to
3:23 explain that your answer in Practical
3:26 terms I hope that makes sense so that is
3:28 very very important now another point I
3:30 want to make is that
3:33 because practical is important in your
3:35 answering question I want to suggest
3:37 something for you when you want to
3:39 answer any question picture yourself in
3:41 the lab don't answer question like
3:44 somebody that is outside the lab picture
3:46 yourself doing that thing in the lab
3:48 once you picture yourself doing that
3:50 thing in the lab it will help you to
3:53 answer the question in a sequential
3:56 format what do I mean by that sometimes
3:58 many of you go for interview and you are
4:00 being asked a question then then your
4:02 question doesn't flow in a sequential
4:05 format okay so it look like it move in a
4:07 zigzag form what I mean is that when you
4:09 want to answer question Let It Go like
4:13 Let It Go in the format of maybe 1 2 3 4
4:17 5 6 and so on or a b c d and so on
4:20 meaning that your answer should flow as
4:22 it is being done in the
4:25 laboratory let me give you example now
4:27 you be asked a question about what can
4:30 cause a low BL you can say say so many
4:32 things about it anything you say
4:34 possibly is correct if you say something
4:36 like Pless atletism you are right if you
4:38 say something like large plet you are
4:41 right if you say something like ITP you
4:43 are right anything possibly you say even
4:46 if you say bleeding you are right but
4:48 when you are mentioning this point why
4:51 that is good it will be important to
4:54 explain give your answer as someone who
4:57 is in the laboratory imagine that you're
4:59 in the lab and you've run a sample and
5:02 you are seeing a low platlet if you are
5:04 in the lab what are you going to do I
5:06 bet that the first thing you are going
5:09 to do is to go and get the sample and
5:12 check what the problem might be and
5:13 after you've checked what the problem
5:15 might be using the sample then you
5:18 cannot investigate further therefore if
5:21 you answering that question of low blet
5:23 it could de said to you know put your
5:26 answer in a format like you know
5:29 preanalytical analytical and post
5:32 analytical so under the pre analytical
5:34 you are not trying to check is there any
5:36 human factors okay that could have
5:38 contributed to that low
5:40 plet that's why you talk about checking
5:43 for a clo checking whether it is diluted
5:46 and so on now you now look at analytical
5:48 and that is where you can look okay if
5:50 there is no problem with um the
5:53 preanalytical is there any problem with
5:54 analytical and that is where you might
5:56 need to look at something like plet
5:59 clumping large plet plet atletism and so
6:01 on now when you look at something like
6:04 post analytical maybe you can bring in
6:07 something like the patient condition
6:09 maybe following the previous test result
6:11 okay and that is where you can bring in
6:13 something like maybe condition like ITP
6:18 TTP and and DIC and so on under low blet
6:20 I hope this is making sense so when you
6:22 go for interview and they ask you any
6:25 question Don't just run off ask yourself
6:28 picture yourself in the lab what are the
6:29 steps if I'm in the lab that I'm going
6:32 to use to investigate this use that
6:35 format and give your answers so I've
6:37 mentioned making sure that you answer
6:40 your question in a sequential format and
6:41 to be able to do that you need to
6:44 picture yourself in the laboratory and
6:46 that is where like I've said before
6:48 using example comes in and once you say
6:51 for example it gives you the opportunity
6:54 to now say what you have already done
6:56 your experience so you are trying to
6:59 bring your experience into that question
7:01 question they are asking you so that is
7:03 very very vital I'm going to be giving
7:05 us some few examples but I want to lay
7:07 this Foundation okay and this is where
7:10 the problem is in most cases some of you
7:13 guys have gone for an interview you said
7:15 they didn't ask you bi medical scientist
7:17 interview they didn't ask you biomedical
7:19 scientist question what do you mean by
7:22 that when you say you are not how can
7:24 you go for a biomedical scientist job
7:26 position and they don't ask you by
7:28 medical scientist interview question
7:30 there is no such a thing you is just
7:34 your own assumption you thought so okay
7:35 now let me explain what I mean some of
7:37 you have gone for an interview and you
7:39 prepare a lot of things regarding to
7:42 maybe um what you think should be asked
7:43 in the biom medical scientist interview
7:45 question let's say something like maybe
7:47 um of course you all know that my area
7:49 is hematology and blood transfusion now
7:50 let's say you be act some you were
7:52 expecting to be act something like low
7:54 plet like I've mentioned you expected to
7:57 be act something like raise iron now you
7:58 expected to act maybe you're expecting
8:00 that they going to to ask you something
8:02 like high normal or low MCV low
8:05 hemoglobin as the case may be now you've
8:06 gone for an interview they didn't ask
8:09 that now you are disappointed now
8:12 instead they start asking you question
8:14 like what makes you think you are
8:17 qualified for the job or they start ask
8:20 ask you question like tell us in which
8:22 way you have played as a good team
8:25 players or they start ask you question
8:29 like tell us which mistake have you made
8:32 and how what did you learn from it and
8:34 how did you correct it now when this
8:36 question start coming in your own mind
8:38 is not by medical scientist interview
8:40 question it
8:43 is the only thing you have you didn't
8:45 quite you may answer that question for
8:47 you you have answered because such
8:49 questions you know they can be very
8:52 challenging because it appears simple
8:54 but what that can increase your chances
8:57 of getting job when such questions
8:59 appear is to use for examle
9:01 and what it mean that you are going to
9:05 bring in your experience into that
9:07 question that thing you are expecting
9:09 for example you are expecting low
9:11 platlet you are expecting question on
9:13 low platlet you expecting question on
9:16 Race MCC you expecting question on high
9:19 as the case may be do you know you can
9:22 bring those questions into that answer
9:24 they are asking you do you understand
9:26 what I'm trying to say now let me bring
9:28 example here you've gone for an
9:30 interview and they asked you a question
9:33 they said tell us which mistake have you
9:36 made what did you learn from it okay
9:38 something like that as the case may be
9:40 you can say so many things okay but do
9:42 you know you can say for after you've
9:45 answered your question the the mistake
9:46 you have made you know what you've
9:48 learned to actually answer that question
9:51 it would be important to say for example
9:54 and that for example you can discuss to
9:58 bring in what you have studied around race
10:00 race
10:02 MCC you can bring in what you have
10:07 studied around raise MCV or low MCV you
10:08 can bring in what you have studied
10:12 around low plet high irr electronic
10:14 issue anything that you've studied along
10:16 that line that you know along that line
10:18 you can bring it in now let me explain
10:21 you how you can bring it in how can you
10:23 bring it in you can bring it in by
10:25 saying for example now you are not you
10:27 are because you are trying to tell them
10:30 the mistake you have made
10:32 if you know the implication of race iron
10:36 now why don't you give them a mistake of
10:39 maybe seeing a race ey now and you don't
10:42 know what to do now you explain that you
10:44 didn't know what to do okay what you
10:46 should have what you now Learned was you
10:48 not tell them what you have learned what
10:52 you know now about race iron now let's
10:54 say something like low platlet now you
10:56 can bring that as an example maybe you
10:58 saw maybe you analyze the result there
11:01 was a l plet okay you check it there's
11:03 no cloth or something like that okay or
11:05 it's not diluted it's not insufficient
11:07 whatever you checked it and because
11:09 you've checked it there is nothing that
11:11 seems to be a problem from the
11:14 preanalytical you release that result
11:17 now you can say that that is a mistake
11:19 that you made because what you should
11:21 have considered is it now you can bring
11:23 it something like like Plum you can
11:25 bring it something like large plet you
11:27 can bring it something a lot of things
11:30 around that area plets ISM and so on now
11:32 what am I trying to say what you are
11:33 doing is that even though they didn't
11:36 ask you about low even though they
11:38 didn't ask you about low MCV they didn't
11:40 ask you about raise high now you see now
11:43 you bringing that experience into that
11:45 question that is how to answer that
11:47 question nobody goes for interview and
11:49 they for biomedical scientist and they
11:51 don't ask you question on biomedical
11:53 scientist interview question is not
11:55 possible any biomedical scientist
11:58 interview you go you must the question
12:00 that will come must be a biomedical
12:02 scientist interview questions now
12:05 whether it comes direct or not is a
12:07 different thing when it comes direct is
12:09 fair enough for example they can ask you
12:12 what do you think that can cause race
12:15 MCC that's direct you see now you cannot
12:18 explain it but what if they ask you the
12:20 things I have said in the past maybe you
12:23 know um what mistake have you made as
12:25 anything they ask you around that area
12:27 you can bring in that same answer on
12:29 rest mcac and something that you didn't
12:32 know before but you now know you now
12:34 explain it does that make sense now
12:36 let's say you go for an interview as swe
12:37 they ask you I want to give another
12:39 example let's say they ask you something
12:41 like how do you ensure that you
12:44 prioritize your work now you can say a
12:46 lot of things you can say I prioritize
12:47 my work based on what is urgent or
12:49 emergency whichever way you want to
12:52 answer that you know it might be correct
12:54 but like what I'm trying to say today in
12:57 on this video is the fact that you don't
12:58 need to stop like that you can say for
13:03 for example and paint scenarios for them
13:05 you can paint a scenario of someone
13:08 bleeding in A and E you can paint a Saro
13:11 of someone bleeding in delivery suit or
13:14 meternity W you can play a Saro of baby
13:17 getting a call from GP okay you can
13:20 paint aaro of maybe someone calling you
13:22 about raise high now you can paint aaro
13:25 of having a malaria test to do you can
13:27 put all these things together are you
13:29 following now when you when you for
13:31 example you can say for example there
13:34 was a time you know I was on shift then
13:36 you paint these scenarios now you can
13:39 tell them how you prioritize it that way
13:41 you've given yourself the opportunity to
13:44 explain more how you can prioritize your
13:47 work don't just go about answering
13:50 questions without necessarily using
13:53 example remember like I've said biom
13:56 medical scientist is a practical
13:59 profession it's an Evidence based
14:01 profession therefore when you are
14:04 answering any question make sure it is
14:06 an that your question is based on
14:08 evidence okay not just theoretical
14:11 knowledge I hope this makes sense now
14:12 there's also another example I want to
14:14 bring in which is a common question
14:16 anyway they will ask you something like
14:18 what makes you think you are qualified
14:20 for the job you see now now you can say
14:22 a lot of things which I've already said
14:24 on my pre previous video about your
14:26 qualification your experience and all of
14:28 that do you know that that can also for
14:31 example you can say I am competent in
14:34 the validation of f block and result or
14:36 in the analysis and validation of f
14:38 block and result or in maintenance of
14:41 analy whatever you want to say so you
14:43 can say you are competent in that then
14:46 you say for example I'm trying to make
14:48 you to understand that what does it mean
14:50 to validate a result to validate the
14:53 result means that you have to know that
14:55 there is something wrong remember I
14:57 think i' I mentioned to you guys before
14:59 that there are two men types of
15:02 validation you have Auto validation you
15:04 have manual validation in Auto
15:07 validation the system the interface the
15:09 interface the softwares are programmed
15:12 that when something is at certain range
15:15 you know normal okay it will go through
15:17 without you seeing it what it mean that
15:19 as a biomedical scientist if you see any
15:23 result that you are to validate the
15:25 system is already saying the interface
15:28 the the the softwares okay the lims are
15:30 already suggesting that there's a
15:32 problem is it now so when you say you
15:35 are competent in validating result paint
15:39 any of these problems so you can say for
15:41 example I'm competent in validating food
15:43 block result such as in a case of
15:45 understanding the factor that can affect
15:47 block result including then you can give
15:51 low what that can cause it R race MCC
15:53 MCV you Cann now use that opportunity to
15:56 explain further what you know don't just
15:59 say generic thing and run on this is how
16:02 you can increase your chances of getting
16:05 a job and this is how you can answer
16:08 biomedical scientist interview question
16:11 I hope this makes sense okay now you can
16:12 you maybe you've also go for an
16:14 interview and they ask you something
16:17 like okay maybe you how do you deal with
16:20 a difficult member of Staff how do you
16:23 deal with a difficult member of Staff
16:25 now that question in your own mind of
16:27 course is behavioral what are you going
16:29 to do you can still bring in your
16:31 experience now of course you're are
16:34 going to say it's all about the patient
16:36 okay you try not to make sure it affect
16:37 you or something like that as a case may
16:39 be you know you can talk about where
16:41 possible you can let the manager to know
16:43 so that that that can solve you know the
16:45 problem now see now you could say as
16:48 well that this is important in solving
16:51 this because if this is not soled it can
16:54 affect effective Handover okay during
16:57 shift and this can overall affect the
17:00 patient you know diagnosis and
17:01 management or the result that we give
17:05 out okay for example now when you say
17:07 for example I want you to think about a
17:10 scenario imagine something like in blood
17:12 B okay maybe there is a a patient with
17:15 maybe um let's say something like um
17:17 maybe Auto antibodies or maybe even
17:20 General even IG antibodies okay whatever
17:22 there's information basically that you
17:24 need to pass to another patient another
17:27 member of Staff if you are having
17:28 problem with that member of staff
17:31 or that member of staff is difficult to
17:33 deal with if you don't manage it very
17:35 well you may not give that effective
17:37 Handover do you even know something like
17:39 maybe analyzer breakdown and you may
17:42 have sorted it out but you need to tell
17:44 the person taking over from you this is
17:46 what happened but if you having issue
17:48 with that person you may not say it you
17:50 see now you can bring in all these
17:52 examples okay now you can say for
17:54 example okay this will help to ensure
17:57 that we we deliver a good and make sure
17:59 that the laboratory are with confirmant
18:01 will produce a reliable and you know
18:03 good result and that means that whenever
18:06 you counter a a member of staff that is
18:08 difficult to deal with where possible
18:10 you try to see how you can resolve that
18:12 if it means may be communicating to the
18:13 line manager you know or senior member
18:16 of St to resolve that that will be that
18:19 will be good for the patient because for
18:22 example you cannot bring in how that can
18:24 impact on the patient result is see it
18:26 now imagine that is a patient that has
18:28 low hemoglobin because I'm having
18:30 problem with you and I didn't tell you
18:32 that this patient is having hogl low
18:34 hemoglobin to prepare you of what you
18:37 may expect that now has affect has
18:39 affected the patient this is these are
18:42 the examples you need to bring in you
18:44 know there are so many of them I may
18:46 want to say but time will fail me to say
18:48 that so what I want you to know is that
18:50 when you go for biomedical scientist
18:52 interview question and you say is a
18:54 general question they asking you or you
18:57 say is a behavioral question they asking
18:58 you or you say is a tech technical
19:00 question they asking you I want you to
19:03 know you can drive that intervie the way
19:06 you want by bringing in your experiences
19:09 by using the word for example okay
19:12 bringing your experience bringing what
19:15 you've learned okay into any question
19:17 don't wait until the question comes
19:20 direct if it comes direct that is fine
19:22 you can then answer it okay but if it
19:24 comes like that behavioral question and
19:26 all of that find a way to bring your
19:29 experience into that question okay now
19:30 another thing I would like to say you
19:33 need to know when to say I don't know
19:36 can I try you know you see sometimes
19:38 when we go for interview we are under
19:40 tension to answer every question I have
19:43 said this before you don't have to get a
19:45 job because you answer all the questions
19:48 no just demonstrate that you you can be
19:51 easily trained just demonstrate that you
19:53 know what is going on overview generally
19:56 you will get the job okay now what am I
19:57 trying to say if they ask you any
19:59 question and you don't you know you
20:03 don't know it okay don't try to answer
20:05 what you don't know you are better of
20:08 saying can I try then you can try what
20:10 it mean that if you even if you don't
20:11 get it right they don't have to worry
20:13 about it because you've already
20:15 acknowledged that you want to try if you
20:17 also get it right is also good for you
20:19 but don't put yourself under tension of
20:21 trying to answer something that you
20:24 don't quite know okay now the final
20:26 thing I'm going to say is this I want
20:28 you to know that sometimes if you go for
20:29 interv and they ask you a question and
20:31 it's like you know that thing but you
20:33 can't remember again don't be under
20:35 tension trying to mble trying to gaze
20:38 and gaze and be making mistakes okay you
20:41 are better on putting your composure and
20:44 saying I think I know this but I can't
20:46 remember at the moment but what I do
20:49 know about this is this this that that
20:51 they may be pushing you and pushing you
20:54 if you don't know it if if if because
20:56 sometimes what the panel do is to push
20:58 you by maybe suggesting something that
21:00 can help you to remember if irrespective
21:02 of their suggestion you still don't
21:04 remember still maintain that you can't
21:05 you know you've heard about it and you
21:07 can't remember at the moment but this is
21:09 what you know about this when you do
21:11 these things hopefully in this 2024 and
21:13 of course in years to come as well this
21:15 will help you to be able to increase
21:18 your chances of getting a job and this
21:20 is how to answer biomedical scientist
21:23 interview question don't wait until the
21:26 question comes direct whether it is
21:28 direct or not direct bring your
21:31 experiences into that question you can
21:34 decide what to answer in a question when
21:36 it is behavioral okay when it is not
21:37 direct but you are the one that will
21:40 bring the example what it means is that
21:42 when you go through my YouTube videos
21:43 learn those things that I'm saying and
21:46 know them for yourself okay don't just
21:49 cram them know them very very well that
21:51 way it will give you the opportunity to
21:54 be able to create a lot of scenarios and
21:56 give a lot of examples where possible
21:58 now the final thing I really want want
22:00 to say okay I don't want to forget this
22:03 is this don't try to you know when I
22:04 give when I make video like I'm making
22:07 now I'm spending my time to
22:09 explain that is good for teaching but
22:11 when you go for interview remember you
22:12 are not the only person that
22:14 interviewing so you need to learn how to
22:17 be comprehensive and detailed okay don't
22:19 try to explain everything and everything
22:22 and keep taking long and long what they
22:24 are marking is the points you are
22:26 raising now pick all of if you mention
22:29 seven points you can pick two and say
22:31 for example and explain the two leave
22:34 the rest okay leave the rest five let me
22:35 give you example and this is what and
22:37 this is where I'm going to stop if
22:38 you've gone for an interview they ask
22:40 you you notice that your quality control
22:44 sample fell what are you going to do now
22:46 that question there are a lot of things
22:47 you can say remember what I told you if
22:50 you start answering everything up if you
22:52 that if you start saying analyzer
22:54 reagent you start saying everything
22:56 together why that is the point but
22:58 you've not answered that question
23:00 sequentially so if you want to answer
23:02 the question you need to know that for
23:05 analyzer to fail quality control okay if
23:07 a quality control fail there are three
23:10 main thing that can affect it is either
23:13 is a control sample itself or it is the
23:16 reagent or it is the analyzer itself
23:19 does that make sense okay so now even
23:21 under each of these there are other
23:23 things like under the control sample you
23:25 can talk about contamination is the
23:27 sample contaminated you can talk about
23:29 under fi or insufficient you can talk
23:32 about wrong storage temperature of the
23:34 sample you can talk about maybe left at
23:35 the room temperature for a very long
23:37 time okay you can talk about the
23:39 expiring date you can talk about the lot
23:41 number you can talk about there are many
23:44 things you can talk about okay now why
23:46 that is important obviously the same
23:47 there are so many things you can talk
23:50 about um under um reent and of course
23:53 the analyzer don't go and start saying
23:55 and start explaining all of them give
23:58 them the point then take two now let me
24:00 give you the example you could say if a
24:01 qualty control sample fail there are
24:04 three men that can cause it either is a
24:06 problem from the control sample or the
24:09 analyzer reagent okay or possibly the
24:11 analyzer itself under the control sample
24:14 you can mention insufficient under few
24:16 insufficient contaminated you know
24:17 mention all of those things that I've
24:19 said on my previous video okay now you
24:22 can say for example then explain to and
24:24 move on come to the reagent and say the
24:26 same thing for example explain one or
24:28 two move to the analyzer and say the
24:30 same thing and then say for example
24:32 explain one or two and move on okay
24:35 don't try to dwell and keep explaining
24:37 each of the point it might make that
24:40 interview boring and then it might also
24:42 H make you to get an expression from the
24:44 panel that may boot you off I hope I've
24:46 been able to help you guys today you
24:48 know um maybe that I'm thinking on the
24:50 best way I can help you guys this year
24:52 hopefully I'm going to find a better way
24:54 one of the things I'm considering is to
24:56 start making video in form of revision
24:58 okay that way it will help you guys to
25:00 be able to understand better right um
25:02 thank you very much let me know what you
25:04 think about the video and once again I'm
25:05 sorry that I've not been able to make
25:07 videos for a very long time I have been
25:09 very busy but anyway that is what I have
25:11 got today thank you very much and I wish
25:12 you all the best till I come back away
