Career Confidence 4 Tips for getting, growing and enjoying your

career

General Career Process

General Career ProcessWhat we often don’t think about:

• What are the emotions under this process?

• Do these emotions impact outcome?

Career Process

• Do emotions impact the career process and how so?

Short Answer: YES!

• “Confidence gap”: the struggle of self-doubt • Not taking credit for achievements• Not speaking up in meetings• Lack of Challenging assignments

Side Note about Career Process

Path between “the place we occupy and who we anticipate being”Career Stakeholders

Before Confidence

• The feeling of ‘lack’• Lack of knowledge• Fear of failure• Too “x” • Other Examples?

Career Confidence • Kosterlitz, 2015 “Experts (say) that confidence trumps competence as the

key trait for career success”• Career Confidence: Not define, dynamic, active, more traits than concrete • Before we talk more in-depth about confidence:

• Overconfidence: Puff up when you can’t deliver• Check: How big is the gap between my competences and this problem/challenge?

• With a Risk like this why talk confidence?:• Career Success, more enjoyment, increased feelings of self-possession, autonomy and

control.

Tip 1: Growth Mindset

• Mindsets are beliefs—beliefs about yourself and your most basic qualities. Think about your intelligence, your talents, your personality. Are these qualities simply fixed traits, carved in stone and that’s that? Or are they things you can cultivate throughout your life?

Tip 2: Courage

• “Heart” to achieve goals• Bad Fear:

• Overactive, irrational, Worst-case scenarios

• Good Fear:• Excited, Rise to this Challenge, Inhabit larger space than used to

• Taking Time to look at fear..

Tip 3: Grit

• Define: firmness of character; indomitable spirit• Perseverance and passion for long-term goals• The cycle• How does this goal connect?• Marathon vs. Sprint

Tip 4: Self-Compassion

• Define: compassion to one's self in instances of perceived inadequacy, failure, or general suffering

• Why stiff upper lip doesn’t work• Keeping Perspective• Negative self-talk • Talking….

Putting it all Together