Learn about the different interviewing styles - charmers, challengers, examiners, and harmonizers - and how understanding them can improve your success in job interviews. Explore the importance of authenticity, overcoming biases, and mastering storytelling and rapport-building. Discover how interview styles impact job search outcomes and organizational culture, with insights from author Anna Papalia.
Individuals should leverage their natural interviewing style for better outcomes.
There are four primary interviewing styles: charmers, challengers, examiners, and harmonizers, each with unique strengths.
Deep dives
Interviewing Challenges and Evolution
Job interviews remain challenging due to their relative newness in the historical context. Despite abundant advice, interviews are complex decision-making processes that require navigating biases and self-presentation. Lack of formal training on interviewing leads to misconceptions that it resembles casual conversations rather than structured assessments. The guest speaker, with experience across various interview roles, emphasizes the need to leverage individual interviewing styles for better outcomes.
Discovering Unique Interviewing Styles
The guest's research led to the identification of four primary interviewing styles: charmers, challengers, examiners, and harmonizers. Each style approaches interviews differently, with charmers aiming to connect, challengers challenging, examiners focusing on precision, and harmonizers seeking to adapt. The misconception of a superior style was debunked as each style brings its strengths and unique approach to interviews.
Overcoming Bias Through Interview Style Understanding
Understanding and accepting one's interviewing style is crucial for authentic communication during interviews. The guest highlights the importance of authenticity over mimicry. By recognizing and adapting to the interviewer's style, candidates can present themselves genuinely while meeting the interviewer's expectations. Developing self-awareness and practicing common interview questions are key steps in achieving interview success.
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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