Preparation and Baseline Strength in Interviews

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In interviews, if a candidate is not providing the desired information, it may be due to a lack of preparation or a misalignment. Hiring managers should not overlook good candidates due to their charming or examiner tendencies overpowering their capabilities. It is crucial to help candidates prepare better to avoid being passed on to different interview rounds. Candidates should focus on balancing their interview style to ensure it does not become an overused strength.

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."