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The Hunger Games: How to Interview Well

Dr Jocelyn Lowinger: Owner, Coach GP

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MPANZ 2018

“If not now, when?”

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About me and Coach GP

• Intern in 1994

• Mother of 4 (currently aged 22, 20, 18 & 14)

• Work Hx: GP, QUM, medical writing, coaching

• Education: MBBS, MSc (Coach Psych) (almost)

• Coach GP: Coaching doctors in proactive management of their careers and wellbeing

“The Doctor’s Coach”

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An interview is a performance

STAND OUT from the crowd:

• “You’ve got to get people to like you” (Haymitch)

• “Make sure they remember you” (Haymitch)

Technique / Tactics

• “Just be yourself” (Cinna)

• “Answer … as honestly as possible” (Cinna)

Psychology: The inner game of interviews

• “Don’t underrate yourself” (Peeta)

• “Make sure you show [know] your strength” (Haymitch)

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The inner game of interviewing

Long and short term strategies for:

• Ignoring your inner imposter

• Harnessing stress and anxiety

• Building confidence

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Imposter syndrome

WHAT • Inaccurate self-assessment despite awards, fellowship etc• Linked with perfectionism

WHO • More common in women than men• Common in doctors• Even outstanding performers struggle

WHEN • Triggered in high stakes and high performance situations • Need to show confidence – but don’t feel confident

SIGNS • Hard work• ‘Intellectual flattery’• Charm

IMPACT • Strong predictor of psychological distress• Impacts negatively on career advancement

Clance & Imes, 1978; LaDonna, Ginsburg & Watling, 2017

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Managing imposter syndrome

Getting a handle on reality

• Yourself

• Expectations

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Reality: Just the facts ma’am

• “Make sure you show [know] your strength” (Haymitch)

• Skills, Qualifications, Experience

• Strengths

• What went well recently

• How you coped with recent crises – at home or work

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Expectations: But I don’t ‘feel’ confident

Consciously incompetent

Consciously competent

Unconsciously incompetent

Unconsciously competent

Gullander, 1974Complacency

Insight

Choice

PracticeMastery

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Stress refresher

Perf

orm

ance

Stress/Arousal

Boredom,Recuperation

Comfort zone Challenge Stretch Collapse, overwhelm, burnout

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Managing the stretch zone

General fitness

Targeted training and practice

Feedback and reflection

Performance

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General fitness – long term strategies

• Sleep, exercise, nutrition

• Relaxation

• Positive psychology strategies eg.• Optimistic thinking style

• Build positive emotions

• Openness and curiosity

• Positive relationships

• Kindness, gratitude, self-compassion

• Sensing experiences

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Targeted training and practice

• Clinical skills / knowledge

• Interview performance• Mental imagery

• Mindfulness: attentional awareness

• Abdominal Breathing

• Answering questions

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Mental imagery and visualisation

• Physical – stance, posture

• Environment - setting

• Task/skill

• Timing

• Learning

• Emotion

• Perspective


Mindfulness – a theory of how it worksMindfulness practice

Deliberate attention

Receptivity

Attention

Decentered awareness leads to

↑Attentional control

↓ Emotional reactivity

↑ Self attunement

↑ Ability to take diff perspectives

These lead to

↑ Self-efficacy

↑ Attunement to others

↑ Behavioural choices and options

Which lead to

↑ Self-regulation

↑ autonomous goal selection

Resulting in

↑Goal attainment

↑ Wellbeing

↑ Resilience

↑ Relationships

↑ Engagement

↓ stress, anxiety, depression

Cavanagh & Spence, 2013

Feedback

Reflective Questions:*So what are you trying to achieve with mindfulness practice?

*How will it affect your interview?

*How much time are you willing to commit?


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Answering questions

STAR format

• Situation: Context

• Task: Your responsibility

• Action: What you did

• Result: What happened

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Feedback and reflection

• Skills / Knowledge

• Self / Meaning / Purpose • Self-discovery• Choice• Uniqueness• Responsibility• Self-transcendence

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Reflective questions How this builds confidence Interview questions it will help you answer

Self-discovery Who am I? Who do I want to become?

Reframes anxiety as the necessary tension involved in growthReframes weakness as learning potential

Tell us about yourself?Why do you want this job?Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Choice What attitude will I take to this situation? Myself? My work? The past?

Choice is empowering. Will you define yourself by those exams you failed? Or as a learner who never gives up?

How do you manage errors and mistakes?When would you ask for help?How do you cope in a crisis?

Uniqueness What can I do that nobody else can do in this role? What have I got to give?

Reinforces the reality check – makes it start to seem believable.

What are your strengths and weaknesses?What makes you different to other candidates?

Responsibility What is life calling on you to do? What does your conscience say? Not feeling responsible for things outside your control?

Helps keep the feeling of choice from becoming self-centred. It’s not all about you. Gives a sense of meaning to tough situations. Helps with your attitude to getting or not getting the job.

How would you resolve a moral dilemma involving overtime? Pay? Bullying? Admissions? On-call? Personal beliefs?

Self-transcendence

Can you orient yourself to other people? A cause?

You start to forget yourself and think about what other people need – focus on employer agenda. Feeling like an imposter ceases to matter. Self-care moves from feeling selfish to necessary. You start talking from the heart, being and feeling authentic.

What is the most important thing about this job? How well do you work in a team? If you weren’t a doctor what would you be?

Fabry, 1988

Pulling it all together

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References

• Cavanagh, M., & Spence, G. (2013). Mindfulness in coaching: Philosophy, psychology or just a useful skill? In J. Passmore, D. B. Peterson, & T. Freire (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of the psychology of coaching and mentoring (pp. 112-134). Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley Blackwell.

• Clance, P. R., & Imes, S. A. (1978). The imposter phenomenon in high achieving women: Dynamics and therapeutic intervention. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, 15, 241.

• Collins, S. (2013). The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy. Scholastic UK (and The Hunger Games Movie)

• Dweck, C. (2017). Mindset: changing the way you think to fulfil your potential. Hachette UK.

• Fabry, J.B. (1988) Guideposts to meaning. Oakland, CA. New Harbinger publications.

• Fredrickson, B. L. (2001). The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. American Psychologist, 56(3), 218-226.

• Gullander, O. E. (1974). Conscious Competency: The Mark of a Competent Instructor. Canadian Training Methods, 7(1), 20-1.

• Paul S. Holmes & David J. Collins (2001) The PETTLEP Approach to Motor Imagery: A Functional Equivalence Model for Sport Psychologists, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 13:1, 60-83

• LaDonna, K. A., Ginsburg, S., & Watling, C. (2017). “Rising to the Level of Your Incompetence”: Exploring What Physicians’ Self-Assessment of Their Performance Reveals About the Impact of the Imposter Syndrome in Medicine. Academic Medicine, Publish Ahead of Print.

• Lazarus, R. S., & Folkman, S. (1984). Stress, appraisal and coping. New York: Springer Publishing Company, Inc.

• Seligman, M. E. P. (2011). Flourish. North Sydney, N.S.W: William Heinemann Australia.

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