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Whether you’re just starting out on your career, or you’ve been shaken by a bad experience – gaining career confidence can be a tough thing to do.

Having confidence in the workplace does more than just make you feel good. It also makes you more likely to participate in workplace discussions, volunteer solutions and take the reins on importance projects – all of which can lead to advancement and success.

Gaining professional confidence is something you can do by simply picking up some good habits. Before you know it, these habits will have initialed a positive feedback loop that keeps your confidence rolling along. Consider the following good habits that can help you land your perfect job.

Stay on task

From the rumor mill to social activities outside the office, it can be easy to get distracted and let your work suffer in the process. If you’re not doing good work, then building professional confidence is going to be extremely difficult.

Stay focused and work hard to do your job well. Your professional achievements and reliability are the foundation on which your confidence will be built.

Identify your strengths and weaknesses

Instead of trying to work harder and faster than the person next to you, focus on excelling at what you do best. We all have a unique mix of talents and by leveraging your own personal blend of attributes, you can offer your employer something that no one else can.

Take an inventory of your personal and professional successes, and figure out what you did to make that success happen. Then, apply those actions or habits to your job duties.

Likewise, figure out what you aren’t so good at and work on diminishing your weaknesses. This can be done by working on your faults, or seeing if you can automate or delegate what you aren’t so good at.

Manage your reactions

Stress can often get the better of us at work, and when it does, nobody benefits.

Stepping up you emotional awareness is a great way to build professional confidence. Take note of people actions, reactions and motivations – particularly those that impact your self confidence. If you can realize why someone lashed out or reacted badly to a situation, it can help you to handle situations more intelligently.

Challenge yourself

Knowing your role and excelling at it is good enough for many people, but for others – they must be challenged in order to thrive. If you find yourself getting frustrated, perhaps your brain just isn’t getting enough stimulation.

Seek out opportunities to challenge yourself. In particular, look for projects and roles that allow you to take advantage of your strengths, while masking your weaknesses. If you’re afraid of failure, taking baby steps can feed into a giant personal leap of faith.

At Cornerstone, we work with all of our job candidates to build their professional confidence through training and opportunity. If you are currently looking for the next chapter in your career, feel free to contact us today.


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