1. Know Your Worth

One of the biggest ways you can be confident in interviews, job fairs, and trade shows is by recognizing the value you bring to the table.

Even if you have little job experience, you can bring a good attitude, a teachable spirit, and a stellar work ethic.

You are valuable and companies want to hire you if you posses these three things.

2. Maintain Open Body Language

People are more likely to view you as charismatic, friendly, and confident if you are communicating that you are comfortable.

• Keep your hands out of your pockets

• Don’t fold your arms

• Avoid self-pacifying behaviors like fidgeting, tapping, or rubbing your neck or leg.

• Look into the eyes of the person you are speaking to and continue looking at their eyes when they speak to show you are listening to what they are saying.

If you are in an interview with multiple people, address each of them with your eye contact. Look at all of them in turn.

3. Dress Professionally

How you present yourself is important and will affect how you are viewed. Dress well in clothes that fit you and ones that are appropriate for the occasion.

If you are wearing wrinkled or dirty clothes they communicate that you don’t care about the details and that you might be lazy or just out of touch.

Remember: How you do the little things is indicative of how you will do the big things.

Employers pick up on these subtle clues like how you dress and extrapolate these details to form a picture of what type of person you are.

4. Be Genuinely Curious

Nothing inspires people like someone who is curious. If you ask questions and show that you care about the answer by listening well, people notice.

A fun experiment I like to do is to get someone talking about what they are passionate about. All you have to do is ask open ended questions about the other person and then be silent.

They will begin telling you about what they love in great detail. Ask 2-3 simple follow up questions and they will know that you respect them and are genuinely interested in what they have to say.

Have the capacity to be curious about people and the things they are interested in, even if you know nothing about that particular subject. This skill alone will take you far.

By the end of the conversation, the other person will believe this was the most interesting conversations they have had in a long time even if you have said next to nothing. That’s the magic of curiosity and actively listening.

5. Smile Often

A warm smile is powerful. Even if you don’t feel like smiling, do it anyway.

It has a profound effect on your brain and the brain of the person you are speaking to.

Research shows that by smiling you improve your mood and that it is contagious.

Next time you are walking somewhere, give a stranger a big warm smile and immediately you will see them mirror you and smile in return.

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Action Steps

How can you be confident and land the job of your dreams? Try these 5 tips today and see what happens! You can do great things and have so much to offer the world! I’d love to hear about your experiences.

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Rock on,

Camden