What’s Your Interviewing Style?

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

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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There's a lot of advice out there on how to get job interviews right, whether you're the one trying to get hired or the one evaluating the candidates. But the dos and don'ts aren't always applicable to every person. In fact, author Anna Papalia thinks we're better served by understanding and leveraging our own natural interviewing style. Having spent years as a corporate recruiter, organizational consultant, and coach to students and professions, she's conducted thousands of real and mock interviews and noticed that people tend to fall into one of four categories: charmer, examiner, challenger, or harmonizer. She outlines the strengths and weaknesses of each and explains how this framework can help us get better from both sides of the desks. Papalia wrote the book "Interviewology: The New Science of Interviewing."

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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 HBRIDICAST from Harvard Business Review. I'm Allison Beard. Most advice about job interviews, whether you're the one trying to get hired or
0:50.3	the one evaluating the candidates, focuses on things we should or shouldn't do.
0:55.0	Interviewers should ask uniform questions focused on skills and experience.
0:59.0	They shouldn't make snap judgments.
1:01.0	Interviewees should come prepared to talk about their achievements.
1:05.4	They shouldn't seem demanding.
1:07.5	I'll bet most of you know all these do's and don'ts.
1:10.4	And yet interviews are still so hard to get right.
1:13.2	We flub them and miss a great opportunity.
1:16.1	We think that we found the right person for a job, but we really haven't.
1:19.2	Today's guest has spent years on all sides of this challenge.
1:23.4	She's been a job hunter herself, a corporate recruiter, a consultant to organizations trying
1:28.1	to get better at hiring, and a teacher and coach to students and professionals trying to land their dream jobs.
1:35.0	In interviewing thousands of people and studying relevant research, she's identified a new way
1:40.0	to get better at this important aspect of career and organizational growth.
1:44.6	The key, she says, is to understand and leverage your natural interviewing style.
1:49.9	Anna Papalea is the author of the book, Interuology, The New Science of Interviewing.
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