As a hiring manager,

I’m going to ask what you know about our company. I don’t expect a lot with the world being so remote based now the fact I probably pulled your resume from a website but I’m hoping you at least took a moment to google us and know our basic foundations.

I’m going to ask about EMR experience. You’re learning style, if you’re self disciplined enough to learn the constant policy changes, and disciplined enough to work indepentently with minimal oversight. If you have previous experience I may ask you about your production quota and quality.

I ask some of the corny questions: what’s your favorite thing about coding, what’s your least favorite. What’s your goal: remote coder, do you see yourself leading someday, do you have any internet in any specialized coding, etc.

I also agree some of the other feedback, sale your previous experience as you coded for a teaching hospital so you have knowledge on the student and resident documentation requirements, etc.

If I’m looking at a resume, after I check your credentials, education and experience, the next place I start looking at is your work dates and how many times you moved jobs and how long you tend to stay at a job. I think if it gets brought up, you should be as honest as you can without giving all the details ‘family health crisis affected my performance, things are better now and I look forward to a chance to resume my career.’ All that to say, if everything else checks out, I’d probably not move past an idea candidate for being fired once.