Be Prepared!

July 11th, 2008 by Michael

If you are applying for a course or a new job that requires that you have an interview beforehand, or if you have a presentation or meeting coming up much of your confidence and ultimately your success in that circumstance will be dependent upon how prepared you are for it.

If two people of the same level and type of education and professional experience are applying for the same job and if both of these parties are generally confident people, the deciding factor may well come down to which of these people know most about the specific job they are applying for. Read up all you can about the company, business or course you are applying for, then if any opportunity comes up where you can demonstrate that knowledge – such as to explain why you think the job/course is right for you and vice-versa – take advantage of it!

Always play to your strengths and always try to deepen and diversify those strengths. In terms of just building your self-confidence, if you practise and expose yourself to the things that you already know you are good at you will likely enjoy doing so and experience a boost to your confidence with every little success or improvement. The confidence you get from doing the things you are good at will help to counter-balance any disappointments or little failures you may experience while applying for jobs, embarking on new manager training schemes or just trying out new things in general.

Indeed, always seek to improve on, or even eradicate, your weaknesses, while accepting that no-one can be perfect or successful at everything. The idea is to minimise the areas where you are lacking in confidence so that you feel at least competent or neutral in those areas. You don’t have to be the expert at everything and if you think you are you are in fact cultivating a far more dangerous weakness – arrogance and/or hubris.

Besides, no-one likes an outspoken know-it-all…!

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