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In- Tray exercise Please help
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I have an interview tomorrow for a health care support worker in a maternity ward tomorrow and have been asked to do a in-tray presentation and i havent a clue what this is can anyone help
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As I understand it - this type of test is where you get given a mythical in-tray in which people have placed different letters or things which you need to get done. What you have to do is review each of these and then say in which order you would tackle them.
So for example you might have a letter which needs responding to, an invoice which needs to be paid, an important meeting which needs to be arranged and lots of filing which needs to be done.
I have to set an interview test for someone this afternoon and this has just given me some ideas for that!
You then have to show that you can prioritise your workload by identifying which needs to be done first etc.
A good starting point would be to say you'd always have a quick look through everything that's there so you know what there is to deal with, that way you'll be able to prioritise. It can also mean you can identify missing things sooner rather than later.
good luck!
Just incase you read this before you go - I imagine you will need to present to them which order you will do things and and explain why you have chosen to do it in that particualar order and then they will ask you a couple of questions. I doubt you would be expected to do a standup powerpoint thing with handouts or anything!