 Hello everybody, Maria here. So are you a dental assisting student and you have now graduated and you want to prepare for your first interview. So I was dental assistant for several years I did become a hygienist, and now I currently have my own dental hygiene mobile practice. But when I worked in a dental office, I would kind of assist with the interview so I know what type of questions they're going to ask you. I can also know how you can pass those questions to get the job. So let me help you guys to kind of prepare you. So I'll talk about the tiny things first like please make sure to dress professional. Don't show up in a tank top and jeans where nice black pants, just a nice outfit overall, do not show up in your dental attire scrubs we don't like that just look professional like look professional like you're going for any job interview. Another thing is always remember to bring at least one resume and one cover letter in case maybe the office lost it or they misplaced it. I cannot tell you how often that happens. It's nice that you actually bring it so then they can maybe say do you have a resume with you we would like to keep it let's you know, move on, because either way you might be called in because you've already seen your resume and they want to talk to you further, or you might be called in for an interview just because you just simply are handing in your resume, and saying I would love to apply and they had time and they want to speak to you now. But these are the types of questions that they're going to ask you. They're going to ask you things such as why do you feel you would be a good fit for this office. I'm probably thinking, I don't even know the office I have no idea. You should say something like you know what, as a kid, I would walk by here every day, I would always look in, and people always seem so happy people seem like it's a good place to work so they would entice me. And then when I knew I wanted to become a dental assistant this was actually the first place that I wanted to apply. So you could say something like that that just speaks so highly and it makes the office the people working there feel good to you might be interviewed by the office manager and the dentist. Sometimes you'll be interviewed by the dentist and their assistant because that's the person who's going to be training you but you want to make them feel good as staff members. Another thing that they might ask you are well what's a negative quality about yourself you know tell me a positive quality but also tell me a negative. And this can often stump people because we don't want to say anything bad about ourselves right. We're here to sell ourselves to get the job, but something you could say which is also positive but it is a negative I guess to is you could say something like, you know, I'm quite the perfectionist so this can be seen as a good or bad thing. And might take me longer to do something because I want to do something right. So, or you know doing something well to the best of my ability and I'm not going to stop until I get it right you know as a new dental assistant in school x-rays was more of a trickier thing for me, but I didn't stop until I got it right. It did take time so anything here that maybe I'm having trouble with I'm going to ask for help and might take a little bit longer because I am new, but I will not stop until I get it right. So see how I turned a negative into a positive, especially new dental assistants you are new that is seen as a negative but if they mentioned at the interview something such as well you're very new you don't have any experience yet. This is how you should reply. You should say that is true. I am new, but you can mold me however you want you know I don't have experience but I am so willing to learn and I would love to work here that I will do what you tell me because I have nothing to compare it to other than school of course but that's very very different you can mold me however you want. Doesn't that sound amazing if I was interviewing you or me? I would hire you because you would be very energetic you know you are positive and you know you're new. You know that that scene is a bad thing but I mean come on you guys you have to start somewhere but always anything they say to you make it into a great positive let's say you haven't worked for a couple years because you were in school they might bring that up. You can say I didn't work while I was in school because I was lucky enough that I didn't have to and that made me really focus on what I was learning and I did get very good marks so that really helped me so I feel more prepared than maybe somebody else because I had devoted my past year two years on studying dental assisting so you can bring that up. Those are the types of questions they're going to ask you so if you have any questions comment below I would love to help you guys let me know if you need anything and good luck please let me know how your interview goes and I'm sure you will get the job.