Look past the requirements-list - recognize your strengths and be yourself
Summary
Companies often require that their new employees possess the skills of a ten bullet point competence list, but it’s very rare for any applicant to actually fulfill all the criteria. Imagine yourself in a situation where you’ve managed to snatch up a job that sounds great – you have an impressive title, and everything looks good on paper. In the application and in the interview, you let out a tiny white lie about how you’re a really experienced presenter – it was one of the requirements in the job advert after all. Now you find yourself in a situation where you need to present the results of your work to a room full of corporate executives, although you know that just talking in front of a mirror is already a bit more than you can handle. This is not to say it isn’t good to challenge yourself and step outside your comfort zone (if we don’t, we’ll never learn or develop) but if the requirements imposed upon us by our surroundings are too much, the worst case scenario is that you suffer a burnout.