So you say, “Well Tony, you have been telling me to sell myself really hard. So, how can I be humble doing that?”
There is a big difference between selling yourself in a “bodacious, chip on your shoulder attitude” or an attitude of “confidence and humility…”
It’s the difference between “I’m a stud…or studette .. and you should hire me because I know what I’m doing.” “Give me a good reason why I should go to work here…and, you’re gonna be lucky to have me!”…or “I’ve been blessed with many attributes and I’ve been fortunate enough to have had good mentors. Fortunate also to get the chance to apply those attributes and to be in the kinds of places that have given me a chance to perform well and grow.”
The idea is to sell your skills… one way to do it is to take on a prideful, egotistical attitude and the other is to take on, well, a humble attitude… there’s a big difference.
People appreciate and respect humility… many times when a job candidate is in an emotionally distrustful state, they can be overaggressive and egotistical in their presentation…this is usually a defense mechanism…
Real confidence communicates real humility.
