Have you ever been perfect for a job, but choked during the interview? Or, maybe you didn\u2019t have great answers to tough questions, like \u201cWhy should we hire you?\u201d Anna Papalia is the CEO and bestselling author of \u201cInterviewology\u201d and has expert insight on how to crush any job interview. She\u2019s advised more than ten thousand clients on the science of job interviews and is about to pass along her expertise to you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On COVID\u2019s impact on the conventional office dynamic:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c(When COVID hit) there were so many industries and so many companies that didn\u2019t do anything virtually, let alone job interviews, let alone full jobs, so we shifted into an entirely different way really fast and so many hundreds of thousands of people are now working from home. And obviously COVID was also this global near-death experience for so many people. And when you personally go through a near-death experience, even though you may not have had COVID, but you know other people that got sick, or just the trauama that happened when everything got shut down and we all had to start working differently \u2013 all of a sudden, your priorities change. And so many people started looking at how they work, the way they work, and their work-life balance differently. And that\u2019s going to take us some time to \u2018right-size\u2019 or balance to bring us back to that (pre-pandemic) equilibrium.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What does the future of in-person work look like?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI believe in the next year or two years we are going to \u2018right-size\u2019 slightly. I don\u2019t think everyone is going back to the office, but I think a lot more people are going back to the office than they think. Will it ever be pre-2020? No. Once we\u2019ve gotten a taste that we can do these things, and be really productive virtually, I don\u2019t think we have to do it the old way. But we can\u2019t continue to have 90% of the people be 100% virtual.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Will AI dramatically change the employment landscape:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith every great technology there is this fear that it is going to take our jobs. But what it generally does is it just forces these lower-level jobs to innovate or change or evolve and then other positions crop up. For example, you can\u2019t hire a computer to go into a job interview for you, because no AI program knows your story. Some people can pop-in interview questions to AI and get the \u2018perfect interview answers,\u2019 or hiring managers can ask these types of things, but nothing replaces this human interaction when you\u2019re telling your story and you\u2019re selling yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the four different types of interview personalities:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCharmers look at interviews like a performance; like they\u2019re the star of the show and they prioritized being liked. They want to be liked in an interview. \u2026 Challengers want to be respected and heard. They look at an interview like a cross-examination. They are highly skeptical and they\u2019re going to figure something out. \u2026 Then we have examiners. Examiners are more private. They\u2019re quiet. They look at an interview like a test that they are either going to pass or fail. They go into an interview wanting to be seen as qualified. \u2026 And then lastly, harmonizers look at an interview like a tryout for a team that they want to join. They want to adapt. They\u2019re warm and they\u2019re collaborative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n How to handle nerves on a job interview:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI spend a lot of time coaching clients on how to prepare for job interviews. People tell me all the time that they\u2019re very nervous, and I always say, \u2018Practice. Research and practice.\u2019 The more you practice and prepare ahead of an interview the less nervous you\u2019ll be. So, from a job seeker standpoint, if you\u2019re very crazy nervous, you just haven\u2019t done enough prep, and you haven\u2019t practiced enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n How to answer: \u201cWhat are your weaknesses?\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWell, number one, it has to be truthful. Don\u2019t make up some (untrue) answer. \u2026 Don\u2019t come up with some fake answer. If you Google it, a lot of resources will tell you to say you\u2019re a perfectionist. Please don\u2019t because you\u2019re probably not. So, it\u2019s about thinking deeply, having that self-awareness we talked about, and figuring out what that weakness is. And then, how you talk about it in an interview is \u2013 maybe \u2013 share a micro story about how you found this out about yourself and how you\u2019re working on it. We\u2019re not looking for perfection. We\u2019re looking for people that understand what they\u2019re working on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"