The Art of the Interview

HBR IdeaCast

Harvard Business Review

Business, Hbr, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Strategy, Business/management, Management, Communication, Harvard, Entrepreneurship, Business/marketing, Leadership, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Teams

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🗓️ 25 February 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Job interviews can feel more like a stylized ritual than a normal conversation. Esquire writer and journalist Cal Fussman, who's interviewed scores of people from Mikhail Gorbachev to Jeff Bezos to Dr. Dre, gives us his advice, from how to build trust with a subject to getting an honest answer to a tough question.

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
0:05.9	HPR's podcast Coaching Real Leaders brings you behind closed doors as Muriel Wilkins coaches anonymous
0:11.9	leaders through raw honest career questions
0:14.6	that we all face.
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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR IDEA cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael. Today I'm
0:34.9	talking with Cal Busman. Cal is a New York Times best-selling author and a writer
0:39.4	at large for Esquire magazine. He is perhaps best known for his work as the lead
0:44.4	interviewer for Esquire's What I've Learned section. In his career he's
0:48.3	interviewed people from Michael Gorbachev to Richard Branson to
0:51.3	Serena Williams and many many more.
0:53.7	Cal thank you so much for talking with us today.
0:55.8	I'm so happy to be here.
0:58.1	So I wanted to have you on the show to talk about interviewing even though slightly
1:03.4	intimidating for me to interview someone who's such a good and famous
1:07.4	interviewer I know that our readers and listeners really do a lot of job interviewing in their daily work.
1:14.6	And I just can't help but feel like a lot of the advice out there on job interviews is bad.
1:19.6	And we might be better served using some of the approaches that maybe journalists like yourself
1:24.8	have honed in their career.
1:26.4	So I wanted to start by just asking you a little bit for your advice on interviewing.
1:32.0	And I figured we would start with the challenge of
1:34.4	getting someone to give a real answer something that's not rehearsed is
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