Occasionally you will get someone who tells you, “I’m a 10.” A good response is, “Well, I understand everyone is a 10 as a person, but we can all learn to do our jobs better. If you were looking at doing your job even better, how would you rate yourself?” If the person still says, “I’m a 10,” don’t hire this person because the applicant has just told you there’s nothing else he or she can learn.
This article was contributed by Mel Kleiman of HealtheCareers.com, the ACR’s online job database partner. For more information about careers in rheumatology, visit the ACR’s Rheumatology Career Center at www.rheumatology.org.
