Boost your confidence in-between careers with a little fashion psychology!
Keeping up your morale can be difficult when planning your next career move, especially if you have taken a career break, are starting your own business or taking a step in a new direction. Feelings of self-doubt and flagging motivation are commonly experienced during these times. Here are a few simple tips on how you can use your wardrobe to send yourself a powerful and positive visual message, to still those negative thoughts. Seeing is believing!
- Dress for success – even at home! Wear something smart that you would wear to a job interview for the position you desire. This will not only help your confidence and make you feel the part – studies show that formal dress, changes the way we think, helping us solve abstract problems and think of the bigger picture. Try swopping that slouchy sweater for a sharp blazer and see how it makes you feel!
- Wear something blue. Blue is the “just do it” of colour and exudes competence & dependable strength. It is cool, calm and collected, helping one focus on getting the job done. If you have no personal aversion to blue, try this out, even if it’s only an accessory.
- Be gorgeously groomed. This does not mean hours of styling or heavy make-up! A neat hairstyle, tidying the facial hair for men, or a fantastic lipstick colour for women, can make all the difference to how confident and ready we feel to face the world and take hold of our destinies.
The confidence and professionalism you feel is bound to spill over into what you write about yourself in your CV and the phone calls that you make. The transition into interviews should feel easier, as you feel at home in your professional identity and live your own brand every day.
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