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Marketing Yourself as a Senior Engineer

Explore practical ways to present yourself as a senior engineer despite self-doubt or skill gaps. Understand the importance of sharing your accomplishments, securing credible mentors, and combating imposter syndrome. This lesson helps you build confidence to pursue senior roles by leveraging feedback, storytelling, and public engagement.

It doesn’t hurt to try

You may feel like you’re not fully ready yet. You haven’t checked off all the boxes for the senior engineer job or promotion you’re applying for. It doesn’t hurt to try. You don’t know if it’s impostor syndrome talking, and even if you fail the first time, you get priceless feedback and practice for the next time!

Dunning-Kruger effect

Remember the Dunning-Kruger effectThe Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. between what you know and what you ...