The Self-Aware Interview: An Author Event & Workshop with Carolyn Illman

Join us for an informative, interactive, and fun author event! Hosted by Sam of Seattle Book Club and featuring local author and small business owner Carolyn Illman, this workshop-style event will sharpen your interview skills while helping you understand yourself better. General admission includes an enneagram quiz, and a workshop-style interactive presentation from Carolyn Illman, the author of The Self-Aware Interview: Essentials For Every Enneagram Type. GA plus book gets you all this plus a new copy of the book that you will receive at the event. Beverages will be available for purchase downstairs at the bar, and a food truck will be parked outside! Food and beverages are allowed in the loft. Sorry, dogs are not allowed though :/ . More about Carolyn: Carolyn Illman is the founder of Hire Possibilities, a Seattle-based coaching and consulting practice that helps individuals and organizations improve how they approach interviews, hiring, and career growth. With more than 16 years of program management experience (including roles as a Senior Program Manager at Amazon and Senior Producer at the digital agency Smashing Ideas) Carolyn has led complex cross-functional initiatives and helped teams make better hiring decisions. More about The Self-Aware Interview: Essentials For Every Enneagram Type You can’t script your way through a great interview. Most job seekers try. They rehearse answers, memorize stories, and chase the “perfect” response only to walk away feeling like they didn’t truly show who they are. That’s the problem. Great interviews aren’t about performance. They’re about self-awareness. In The Self-Aware Interview, Carolyn Illman draws on 15+ years of experience as a hiring leader, Amazon Bar Raiser, and career coach to reveal what actually works in today’s interview landscape. Instead of teaching you what to say, she shows you how to understand why you say it, and how that changes everything. Using the Enneagram as a practical framework, you’ll discover how your personality patterns influence: *How you prepare (and overprepare) *The stories you choose, and the ones you avoid *Your communication style under pressure *The way you respond to behavioral interview questions *Your decision-making during the hiring process Whether you’re actively job searching, navigating a career transition, or leading hiring decisions, this book will help you move beyond guesswork and into interviews that actually reflect who you are and what you bring. Because the strongest candidate isn’t the most polished. They are the most self-aware.