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The topic came up in chat this morning, thanks to Petruchio, that I think is worth discussing. His side would balance what I offer below as advice to job-seekers.

Confidence is over-rated as a virtue
Confidence without competance is impudence.
Knowledge is confidence that you can share.
An employer or employee that doesn't know this, cannot help you in the long-run and is not worth your investment.
Therefore, whether seeking or sifting for a job-match, value competa ^ence far and away: and, though this leads to humility, it will not be to your detriment.

Or, to put this more in the terminology of a programmer:

  CONFIDENCE can be a character, or a pointer.

  If it is a pointer value, it points to something
  (not itself). 

  If a pointer to nothing, then the CONFIDENCE variable 
  does not reference any object (i.e. a pointer to 
  nothing). 

  Such a NULL pointer can then become useful for 
  discerning an error; for processes return 
  pointers to nothing,if they failed in some way. 

  Therefore, the return value can be tested for NULL.

mkmcconn

ybiC I think managers are wising up, and learning what to look for.
Albannach++ on catching my spelling error. Is there a market for competent pedants, these days?
A powerful answer, even though a dark onePetruchio. I hope that managers lurking here will read it repentantly.

In reply to proverbs re. confidence by mkmcconn

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