Timeline for How do I find a balance between being insecure and being overconfident when presenting myself to employers? [closed]
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| Sep 12, 2016 at 4:06 | history | closed |
gnat Lilienthal♦ Old_Lamplighter Masked Man Michael Grubey |
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| Sep 9, 2016 at 3:01 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 2, 2016 at 16:12 | comment | added | Jon Story | If in doubt, err towards cocky: just not too much and be honest at all times. | |
| Sep 2, 2016 at 15:05 | comment | added | yoozer8 | Might be helpful: workplace.stackexchange.com/a/9834/869 | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 23:31 | comment | added | Student | I seem to have accidentally give everyone the idea that I'm a programmer. I'm not looking for a job in IT. My coding skills are limited. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 20:06 | answer | added | HLGEM | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 20:04 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 1, 2016 at 18:01 | comment | added | Dan | @pay I concur. In developer world, generally speaking the person who can best phrase something wins. Doesn't matter if they're right or if it applies to the situation. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 18:00 | comment | added | Dan | The key thing is how you phrase it. For example, if you say something like, "During course works, I learned how to apply database changes and learned key ways to improve query speed." That is far better than saying, "I might have learned something during school but I have no real world experience." | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 17:38 | comment | added | pay | Are you referring to software? I know this is a bit of a generalization but if you're interviewing for developer jobs, confidence generally sets you apart a bit from quite a few other candidates. I mean that software developers tend toward the 'less confident at interviewing' side of things. Having said that, I would also argue that cocky and confidence are not necessarily related. I would say cockiness is more related to unwarranted confidence whereas confidence is fully justifiable. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 17:34 | history | asked | Student | CC BY-SA 3.0 |