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(female) Well, thanks for coming here today. It's nice to have you here. Thanks.
(female) Why don't you start out today by telling me a little bit about yourself.
Okay. Well, my name is John Smith. And I'm 20 years old. I grew up here in Minneapolis and went to Northfield High School. Right now I'm going to the U of M. And I just switched my major over from Agriculture -- I'm sorry -- no, Horticulture to Animal Science. 'Cause I decided I like plants more than-- Or animals more than plants, I'm sorry. Um, I'm working at Target part-time right now. Just to cover rent and food expenses. And yeah, I wanted to get this internship at your vet clinic, 'cause I'm planning on going on to Vet School and I need more experience on my resume and that sort of thing. Yeah, that's why I'm applying to your Vet Clinic internship.
(female) What are your strengths?
Yeah. Um. Well I'm really good at math and science. Ya know I'm really good in those subjects. I've gotten A's in all my math classes. And I think I've gotten all A's and B's in my science classes. So, yeah. And I really like doing science stuff. Ya know, I really enjoy that. I think those are my two big strengths. I'm also really good with people, ya know. My interpersonal skills are good. I'm good at talking to people, so... I think those are my strengths.
(female) And on the flip side what are some of your weaknesses.
Um, ya know, my biggest weakness is that I'm a big workaholic. Ya know, I have to be working all the time. In the evenings and even on the weekends. Like I just don't take time off. So I'd say my biggest weakness is that just that I'm a workaholic and always workin'.
(female) Okay. Could you describe a time when you've had to complete multiple tasks in a short period of time?
Yeah. I do that all the time. I'm constantly having to work on multiple things. I have 15 credits at the U right now. And all these classes have their own assignments going on. So I'm always doing different assignments at the same time. And I'm also working at Target at the same time I'm doing my assignments. So I have a lot of experience doing multiple things at once.
(female) Can you describe a time when you've been in conflict with a co-worker or a team member and how you handled the situation?
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So in-- I have a small animals class. And we got put into groups and we had to do a group assignment where we had to report on some small domesticated animal. And so we split up the parts of the report so everybody had their own part. And then at the end we kind of put all our parts together for the report. And so we did that. We all did our own parts but when we came together to share our work it was obvious that this guy Rick in the group, he obviously didn't put a lot of time or effort into his part. You know, it was really shoddy work and so me and the other group members were really upset. We put a lot of effort into our part but Rick didn't do his part well. And now our grade was going to be bad because of him. So I confronted him about it and asked him why he didn't put more effort into it. And he got defensive and started making up some excuses and so I went to the professor and told her about it. And, you know, I told her I didn't want my grade to go down because of his bad work. And so I convinced her to grade Rick's part of the report different from the rest of ours. Or separate from it. I think it worked out well.
(female) Okay. Well thank you. Thanks.