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On many occasions, we think that the primary aspect of a candidate or worker of a company is their professional skills and competencies. While this is true, there is a very important factor to consider: work confidence.
But what is this exactly?
Building job confidence is the basis of virtually every social, job and even vital success.
Family, couple, friends … are united by bonds of trust with us. And, of course, the work environment was not going to be less.
Let’s see in this article how to increase our ability to transmit job confidence; from the first time we approached as candidates to apply for a job, until when we have already developed our work within the company.
Job Confidence as the Main Objective
Although most of the advice we are going to give is useful for our daily life in general, for friends, couples or family, we are going to focus exclusively on the work environment.
When setting goals to improve our attractiveness as candidates, or as assets in the company, we will place the main objective of confidence-building
We will see the basic confidence tips to achieve it, and we will see how to apply each in a job interview or the workplace.
- Confidence begins with oneself
The first thing to consider when working achieving our goal is that we cannot be reliable if we do not believe in ourselves before.
This, which might seem easy, turns out to be the most complicated for many people.
Sometimes, we hear advice about how important it is to believe in oneself, but they sound empty, generic as if they weren’t with us.
And that’s because simply … it’s true.
You cannot explain how to trust what one does easily, but we can tell a couple of tricks that just by reading them one sees that they work.
The first is to think at all times, from now on, what we do well with confidence.
Remember all those things that you do well with self–confidence and that fills with pride.
It doesn’t matter if they have little importance.
Sometimes, it can simply know how to make delicious coffee. Others, our degree of commitment, or even how well we develop a task.
The second is to recognize what we do wrong and accept it.
Do not try to hide it or take away importance. Simply accept it, and evaluate if we can gradually improve on it.
Finally, and this is the most difficult part, trying to unite the good of us with the bad, and that it is the good that ends up imposing and “contagion” to those things that we are not proud of or can improve.
It is important to consider one thing: integrity, honesty, being a good person will always enhance our self-confidence. Never miss the opportunity to improve in those aspects; they are the basis of a good internal and external image.
- A first Impression Score Double
We must know that the first impression we give is very important, our confidence our way of talking all is important although it is not the final one.
But there is a secret locked in one word: naturalness.
Whether it is a job interview, as if it is a meeting with a client, it must be acted normally.
The tranquility, observe, let the other person speak, listen carefully, think the answers … all this indicates a degree of maturity and control that distills security.
If it is a job interview, nerves can play against us.
To avoid them as much as possible, accept them as part of you and answer the entire question with confidence. Even if you feel they are palpable, you can explain without fear that they surface due to the importance of your life that moment has.
Sincerity, honesty, and naturalness are the pillars of trust. Resorting to them in a first contact is more than advisable.
- Trust is like Love, You Can Recover
Sometimes, our job confidence may be diminished by various factors, such as mistakes in the past, an interview that has not gone very well, or an error made by a lack of attention.
But let’s not make a great drama, not everything is lost. Trust and confidence can be regained, and it can even be strengthened.
For this, it is essential to redouble the efforts aimed at improving the aforementioned pillars and to demonstrate without hesitation that we can succeed where before we failed, above all, thanks to the experience gained from it.
- Be-look or the Image in the Mirror
This is one of the simplest tests: it is about looking in the mirror and speak with total sincerity what we see.
Nobody listens to us, so we can be as honest as necessary and be confident.
If the answer is not “a reliable person, whom I can trust 100%”, we will have to work on point 1.
- A leader that Everyone Trusts
Leaders are defined as being people you can depend on and these leaders come with the skill of self-confidence.
It is its biggest feature, that’s why the rest follow its guidelines.
Leaders are not the helm that guides the ship for having a lot of knowledge. Not even for having a strong, energetic and powerful character.
Leaders are the visible parts because of many people place their trust in the work they do and their decisions are valued for it.
It is clear: to be a leader you have to be confident.
- Strong Businesses Always Rely on Trust.
You cannot negotiate, or even begin, without first a degree of mutual trust.
If we think of a job interview as a negotiation, both parties must rely at least to some extent on the other. Throughout it, this confidence will increase as all the details are known.
With a client, it is the same.
To strengthen confidence in a meeting, we must first expose how we are, show ourselves naturally and sincere.
Conclusion
Job confidence, whether in a first contact such as a job interview or day-to-day job is something that must be improved at all times.
The pillars to achieve this are always improving as a person.
Integrity values, respectful, open to others, honest and sincere form their basis.
Working these values will be much more productive in general and in the long run than any other knowledge or skill separately.
