HBR IdeaCast

What’s Your Interviewing Style?

Mar 12, 2024

In this engaging discussion, Anna Papalia, the author of "Interviewology: The New Science of Interviewing," shares her expertise from years of experience as a corporate recruiter. She categorizes interview styles into four types: charmer, examiner, challenger, and harmonizer, detailing the strengths and weaknesses of each. Papalia emphasizes the importance of authenticity during interviews and how understanding these styles can improve communication. Her insights challenge conventional wisdom, advocating for self-awareness to create better outcomes for both candidates and interviewers.

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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.

Challenger interview style

00:33

Interview Preparation for Job Seekers and Hiring Managers

01:32

Biases in Hiring Managers and Corporate Culture

01:36

Intro

2min

Navigating Interviewing Styles

8min

Embracing Authenticity in Interviewing

2min

The Art of Interviewing: Authenticity and Bias

7min

Interview Dynamics: Charm and Clarity

10min

Enhancing Interviewing Skills for Better Outcomes

2min

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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HBR IdeaCast

What’s Your Interviewing Style?

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Interviewing Challenges and Evolution

Discovering Unique Interviewing Styles

Overcoming Bias Through Interview Style Understanding

Challenger interview style

Interview Preparation for Job Seekers and Hiring Managers

Biases in Hiring Managers and Corporate Culture

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts