Ep 245| How to overcome Fear despite you are job ready ?

There are two types of fears which student normally faces when it comes to job interviews, when it comes to finding out the right job opportunity, or even even trying to apply for many places. There are a lot of stoppages when a student really navigates in the job market. Yeah, many times you may know that this is also a capability for you. You already have enough skills, enough experience, enough portfolio, resume, everything. But why is that fear stopping? In this podcast, we are going to see that in detail. Okay, so the very first thing is there are two different type of fears. One is the external fear, second is internal fear. Okay, first, let's talk about external fears. External fear could be like something, okay, what happens if the job market is bad? What happens if I'm getting rejected? What happens if that particular vacancy is not available? So this is like only 20 percentage. External circumstances, economic recession, breakdown, all these things. Like let's say we can only attribute to 20 percentage, but the 80% of the reason within us, within insight how we are able to navigate our own difficulties and our own fear to do that. So in that internal fear there are many components to it. Very first thing is if you're not clear about why you are a designer, then you may develop that fear. This is the first symptom you can know. The second symptom, what you can know is let's say if somewhere you're lacking your portfolio is missing some details or maybe a project you don't have the clarity, or maybe the details of the project is not very clear for you to explain, or maybe that project is not very much detailed or you just only did a small part of it. You may develop that fear whether I am really competent or not. Fear is not like just somebody has installed it. It's like developed over your symptom, which you already did in the past. The third symptom to know is you'll be very nervous, you'll be very anxious, you will be very. You'll be in a state of very anxious state before applying for any kind of a job or before approaching for anybody or even when you're talking with somebody in the LinkedIn and maybe if you're interacting with some recruiters or designers, you already have that symptom. Hey, what will this person tell about the fear of judgment? What will this person think about? Will this person think whether I'm capable or not, when I'm okay, so all this internal fear of judgment first blocks you to go and approach them. There is another symptom to it. A lot of people get mumbling and Fumbling and then their hands shiver and then your entire body physiology shows that you're already in a very scared and a very depressed and very, very not depressed. I would say a very, very state of fear. Highest state of fear you are already in. So that's also a symptom to know you are in a state of fear. Okay, okay. Jagdish. I know this is what is happening inside me. I know the capabilities are there. I know my portfolio is not good. I know my, this is, this, that is all. These things are fine. You may have, you may not have, it doesn't matter. When it comes to job market, when it comes to applying for the job, all you need is a high level of confidence. Whether you are winning or not, you need to be in a higher level of confidence. Because even if your skills are not good, even if your gap is there in your portfolio, you still can crack any interview if you understand the power of confidence. Because when you are able to tell what you got first, like let's say if you're very good in wireframing, if you're very good in storytelling, if you're very good in research, showcase that only in the project. Showcase that only in your portfolio. Showcase that only in your particular resume or maybe as a strength and project it properly. What happens if you're not doing that? Because you will just wait for some what you call hey, they will ask some kind of a prototyping, they'll ask some kind of a visualization, they'll ask for some kind of a beautiful case studies. That's not the maybe required in the job description. But for you, what's your strength? Only one area you have to pick and you have to show that confidently. You have to tell that confidently and you have to project that in your resume and portfolio. And even in your first touch point when you're having with the recruiter or a hr. This totally puts your fear outside because now you are in your safe zone. Now you are in your area of capability so that you can able to show them and also make sure that skill is highly required for them. If that skill is highly required for them, what what is your one top skill then that industry is match for you. If it is not step back. That's not the proper industry for you. Going and attending the unwanted interviews will develop even more fear inside you even though you have lot of capabilities. Okay, so choice of the industry, strategically applying for that one skill, what you already have is a crucial factor here. And the second thing is you can able to show a Demonstrated project in that particular skill. If you have that you can do. Or else you can listen to one of my podcasts, which is one day, one project. You can take a project in that domain and a skill and you can demonstrate because you're already having a good skill and expertise in that, right? Your tools knowledge, your skills knowledge and then your documentation knowledge. Everything is good there. So why don't you focus that? The third is you can find their own pain point of the industry, what they're really trying to solve and use that as a pitch point and tell them this is what is the problem I'm also solving through my skills. Can you help me? The moment when you talk in their language, the moment when you exactly find out their pain point, automatically you'll be drawn attention and you'll be asked good questions and you'll be valued like anything. The zone of fear will never come into that. If you play the things rightly, if you move the things strategically so that people will exactly understand. Okay, this person is exactly trying to help me solve the problems of the company. This person has the same skill, this person has the same project. This person has also given this kind of a skill appearance. Okay, let me give an introduction, let me give an interview. Let me give you a design task. So this leads to a next step. If sometimes they are not convinced with this also you can ask, okay, I'm really good in this skill. Why don't you give a design task? Let me take one day. Time to revert back. So this particular invitation, this particular what you call a call will make them also confident and you also demonstrate potentially whatever skill you got. See, sitting in a fear for a longer time doesn't yield anything. You have to know that you have to take some action, break that fear, create some project, show it in a day, whatever you can. Once if you're able to do it, your confidence will go 100 times better. Your confidence will be like boosted, like anything. And chances are you will get into the final round. Chances are they'll invite you for the interview. Chances are you may even land in your dream offer. Okay, so fear is nothing to worry. It's all about taking the right steps in the right direction, towards the right company. Approaching the right person at the right moment will land you right job. Okay, I hope this podcast would have given you a great value. Stay tuned here we'll be also learning lot more things and comment me, what do you think about this and what else you needed to be addressed? Okay, take care. We'll see you in another episode. Bye Bye.