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What’s Your Interviewing Style?

Mar 12, 2024
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.
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Quick takeaways

  • 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.

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