Just Who Do You Think You Are? : Letting Your Accomplishments Work for You
To Be Successful in Your Career Search and Advancement, It is Important to Self-Promote and Advocate for Yourself Unfortunately, this is difficult for many, due to the following attitudes: Are you overly self-critical: Is it difficult to recognize and give yourself credit for the positives about yourself and /or your achievements? Are you uncomfortable publicly acknowledging or talking about your accomplishments? Is it difficult to accept compliments or positive feedback? Do you operate as a perfectionist? Do you seldom acknowledge and enjoy your achievements? Do you feel not __________ enough (fill in the blank; i.e. smart, pretty, nice, good, etc.)? Do you feel that you can never do enough or well enough? Do you engage in negative, distorted patterns of thinking? Do you over emphasize your failures and mistakes and ignore or or under rate your achievements? Do you view a mistake or short- coming as never ending and / or unchangeable? Society fosters mes