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.

You walk into the interview with high hopes, but as you talk, you feel it's not going well.

And later, you learn someone else got the offer.

What could you have done differently?

Janine Esperand is here to talk about how to show up as the ideal candidate in an interview.

She's a career strategist, an executive coach,

and the host of the Career Changemaker podcast. Janine joins us from the city of Surrey in the United Kingdom. Well, let's get started, Janine. Why don't many candidates stand out in a job interview?

What happens? Well, I will say that for a lot of people,

when they are preparing for interviews, they are overly concerned with saying the right thing,

rather than positioning themselves and their expertise and their previous experience as the

experience that the employer is looking for.

And what do people think is the right thing?

What is it, what impressions do they have that they think are to make them stand out, but aren't actually doing that?

Yeah, I think people will think about common interview questions and then try and

come up with what other answers that would be good. So,

you know, like a classic example is if you're asked, what are your weaknesses? And someone can say,

well, my weakness is I'm a perfectionist and try and make a weakness seem like a strength.

I think sometimes people fall into kind of things that

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