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, Mack 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.

A job interview isn't a legal deposition. As with any business meeting, you need to know what you want to accomplish before you

walk into the room. Antropaya is here to talk about why you need to do more in an interview

than answer questions. She's the co-host of the Career Bitches podcast, and is also an author,

a public speaker, and an advisor for student media at the University of Maryland,

Baltimore County. And she joins us from Baltimore, Maryland. Well, let's jump right into it,

Anne. Legal deposition, some candidates actually do this. They think when they walk into the

interview room, their job is to answer the questions, and then their work is done. Is that a good

strategy? Yeah, I mean, it is done. Is that a good strategy?

I mean, it is a strategy.

It's not one that I would generally advise, first of all.

It doesn't really set up a very conversational dynamic.

And let's face it, you're almost never under oath during a job interview.

So there's no reason to kind of sit there and answer questions as if, you know, you're in front of a jury.

Again, it just, it doesn't really, it doesn't really create the kind of rapport that you're looking for in what really should be just a conversation.

And I think people who do that, it's well-intentioned.

They think that, well, the employer has a set of questions, and I want to make sure I answer them all.

Is that what do you think is typically going on when that happens?

I mean, sure.

Most people do not interview often.

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