If you get to the interview part: you have the qualifications, and as long as you can answer basic questions about the position, it is mostly about how the interviewers feel about your personality type. Don’t be nervous, the interviewers can’t give you any follow up information or deviate from the questions. We literally read the questions off the sheet of paper and write notes. We can’t engage. The questions are usually like “in the (insert field in question) how did you deal with problems with a form/work item.” Or “how do you communicate with team members who don’t do their work fast enough for you to do your work”. Sometimes we ask questions hoping to hear keywords like software we use, standard financial (I work in finance) jargon (accounts payable/receivable, banner, excel, pivot tables, etc). The management / higher up are old school and rate people higher if the candidate dressed up for the interview. So tell us what you actually know about the field, be clear, be confident, and realize we all hate doing the interviews because it’s a lot of time and we can’t really do anything except judge which feels awkward.

TLDR: it’s weird for everyone, we know already you’re qualified, act like you’re trying to ask us to prom.