by Dawn Hawkins
When you go into a job interview, you always want to put your best foot forward immediately. Everything that you do in the interview will be noted by the person who is interviewing you. That means that you need to have a great deal of self-confidence in order to pull it off successfully. You want to be the first person they think of when the business is hiring for a position. Being the second choice should never be good enough for you.
When you are self-confident when you go into a job interview, you will find it much easier to get through the interview. For instance, you will be able to quickly and easily ask any questions the interviewer might have for you. This can only put you in a good light where the potential employer is concerned. Self-confidence shows in your demeanor. It also shows in your speech (answers). Every employer wants an employee who feels good enough about themselves to show it in their interview.
Being confident in your skills helps land the job as well. Being able to state clearly and concisely your ability to get the job done. The only way to get your good points across is to feel confident that you have good points. Self-confidence will also allow you to veer any negative points about yourself away from the interviewer successfully. In order to avoid bad points without appearing that you are trying to avoid those bad points, you have to have high self-confidence.
Self-confidence will get you much further in your career than you can fathom. That doesn't mean that you should appear to be "cocky" about your ability. It means that you should be able to stand the test of an interview successfully because you have enough self-confidence to withstand the rigors. Interviews can be very difficult to get through if you have little confidence in your abilities. You will hem and haw instead of giving good answers. You won't state those answers without adding "um" to every other word in the sentence. That is why it is so important to be confident in a job interview.
Being self-confident when you go on a job interview is synonymous with being successful in getting the job. Self-confidence gets you further than you can possibly imagine. You will be amazed at how much further you get and how much faster you get there when you are self-confident when you go to the interview.
From Helium
