Anna Papalia- The Art (and Science) of Interviewing
Jan 27, 2024
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Anna Papalia, CEO of Interviewology, discusses her book on the art of interviewing. Topics include the four interview styles, self-awareness, leveraging interview styles, and the importance of the STAR method in answering questions.
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Quick takeaways
Understanding and leveraging your own interview style is crucial for interview success.
Making a personal connection while also discussing qualifications and achievements is key in interviews.
Deep dives
Discovering the Four Interview Styles
In this episode, the guest discusses the four different interview styles that she has identified through her research: charmers, challengers, examiners, and harmonizers. She explains the characteristics and approaches of each style and emphasizes the importance of self-awareness in understanding and leveraging one's own interview style. The guest highlights the strengths and weaknesses of each style and provides advice for job seekers and hiring managers on how to navigate interviews effectively.
The Power of Making a Connection
The guest explores the importance of making a connection in interviews and highlights the strengths of charmers in establishing rapport and building relationships. She explains that charmers prioritize making a personal connection and tend to enjoy interviews, but cautions against excessive focus on connection-building at the expense of discussing qualifications and achievements. The guest also suggests charmers use the STAR method to add structure to their stories and ensure they effectively convey their qualifications.
The Art of Asking Tough Questions
The guest delves into the characteristics of challengers in interviews. She describes how challengers approach interviews as examinations, asking tough questions and seeking to uncover deeper insights. She advises challengers to find a balance between their natural skepticism and creating a collaborative interview environment. The guest also highlights the importance of active listening and structuring questions for hiring managers who are challengers to ensure effective evaluations of candidates.
Adapting and Collaborating in Interviews
Examining the interview style of harmonizers, the guest emphasizes their strength in adaptability and collaborative approaches. Harmonizers prioritize fitting into teams and departments and tend to focus on the group dynamic rather than asserting personal achievements. The guest advises harmonizers to develop a clear understanding of their own goals and qualifications to effectively communicate their own value in interviews. For hiring managers who are harmonizers, she suggests being more selective in order to make objective decisions.
The Four Interview Styles: Charmers, Challengers, Harmonizers, and Examiners
Top interview myths
Why we need self-awareness
Leveraging your interview style and how to avoid the pitfalls that comes with it
The importance of using the STAR method when answering questions
...and much more!
Anna Papalia is the CEO of Interviewology, a keynote speaker, and a career influencer with over 1.9 million followers across social media platforms. She has worked with large companies, such as Cigna and Lincoln Financial, and taught at Temple University’s Fox School of Business for 12 years, where she collected research and discovered the four interview styles. As a former Director of Talent Acquisition turned career coach, she has vast experience on both sides of the interview table and knows what it takes to interview better. She has advised more than 10,000 clients, helping students, entrepreneurs, senior executives, and job seekers in all industries, and taught hundreds of corporate training sessions dedicated to training hiring managers how to interview.
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