The Value of Self-Confident Employees

Last week, a friend shared with me that a new position had opened at her company, and though she might like the job, she wasn’t going to apply because she assumed she wasn’t qualified. I tried to encourage her to apply anyway, but she demurred.

I’ve been “unqualified” for most of my jobs, and that goes for most of us in trade journalism, because we were trained as journalists and editors, rather than as practitioners of the fields we are writing about. But we take