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Improving your confidence
With practice and by trying out new things, you can improve your self-confidence and learn to present yourself more confidently even when you feel nervous.
Confidence is one of the top qualities that will get you noticed by employers. Confidence is not necessarily something you either have or you don’t. By trying out new things which are a little outside your normal comfort zone, you can extend your experience and meet new people and this automatically helps grow your confidence.
To help with pressurised situations, like an assessment centre or an important meeting, you can also learn techniques that help you to appear more confident.
The Improving your confidence guide gives you more advice on how to do this.
Confidence will help you to network, it will help you to ask for a mentor, it will help you to deliver good results and all of those things will then give you a reputation for delivery and that will open doors to further opportunities.
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Sue Warren, HR Business Partner, BT
