This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.

I'm your host, Mac Pritchard. I'm also the founder

of Max List. It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career.

Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to get the work you want.

Confidence matters, especially when you meet a hiring manager. You don't want

doubts about your skills and abilities to stop you from showing your best self to an employer.

Jess Gozick is here to talk about how to not let imposter syndrome to rail your next job interview.

She's a career and an executive coach. Jess also hosts

the Art of Speaking Up podcast. She joins us from Los Angeles, California. Well, let's jump into it, Jess.

Let's start with definitions. What is imposter syndrome exactly? I define it as this feeling that we kind of snuck in, and we're in this incredible job

position, but we didn't really earn our way there.

We got there by accident, and sometimes we experience this fear that, like, at any minute,

someone is going to realize that we don't have the skills that we need and everything that we've

built is going to fall apart.

Why does this happen, Jess?

Especially to people who on the outside are so successful.

Yeah.

There's so many different reasons why I think a big one and one that I relate to personally

is a lot of us high achievers are

perfectionists and we hold ourselves to these enormously high standards. And I think a lot of times

we don't realize that the standards that we're holding for ourselves in our minds are actually

much, much higher than what our employers want us to bring to the table and what

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