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Always remember everyone else is also an idiot and they probably care less about work than you do. I have found reminding myself that to be helpful
THIS^^
I had this conversation back with a friend of a friends dad who’s a partner at a slalom back when I was job hunting out of college after getting rejected by what I felt was every single company out there. I explained the imposter syndrome and he went through each role I had on my resume with me and wherever I would say “yeah I volunteered at the local community center and did blah blah blah over the years” and he told me “dude this is all stuff that project managers do, you just have to word it in a certain way.” So instead of saying I “was a volunteer leader that lead a group of people to accomplish tasks for events that happened at the center blah blah” say “I manages cross functional teams of complex personalities blah blah” (Obvi I’m paraphrasing because I’m forgetting his exact words, forgive me as this conversation happened well over a year ago)
And he did this for various parts of experience I had on my resume about managing budgets and a bunch. That really helped my imposter syndrome as it helped me see that yo I’m really doing this stuff just on a smaller scale with a lot less buzzwords. And I noticed my confidence begin to grow in interviews (as well as nowadays in my day to day work/interactions at work), where once I would be shaky cuz I didn’t think the experience and knowledge wasn’t good enough, I’d speak with confidence in what I knew and whatever I didn’t know, I’d ask questions with confidence (ex. “I understand up until this point but I’m not clear on this part of the ask, could you further elaborate?” Or something along those lines)
Other advice that he gave me was to also expand my knowledge base on whatever I wanna get into, I wanted to get into big tech so I spent the time on YouTube and am currently going for my AWS cloud practitioner certificate. Cuz nothing will hard push out the imposter syndrome feeling than actually not being an imposter you feel? And the way to do that, regardless of when you do, is to just take in the knowledge that’ll make you the real deal. But til then, fake it til you make it. :)
Learn to meditate (mindfulness)
Talk to your team about it openly, they’re feeling it too
If you YouTube it there are some great tedx talks that have helped me a lot
Let it fuel your work as you dominate while simultaneously being sure the firm will transition you quite soon