What problems do shy people have on the job?
Unfortunately, mastering the skills necessary for gaining employment in a good job can be especially challenging for shy people. Interviewing, calling up potential employers, and schmoozing with company representatives at career seminars and job fairs all require a good degree of poise, self-confidence, verbal skill and ease around others. Even more demanding is what is known as aggressive job hunting, which can be far more effective than “traditional” job-hunting techniques, but entails even greater contact with potential employers. Unfortunately, statistics also show that shy people tend to have more trouble than extroverts advancing on the job, even when they do succeed in getting one. Says Dr. Jonathan Cheek, author of Conquering Shyness; The Battle anyone Can Win, “Underemployment-being stuck in a job that requires less skill or training than you possess-uneasy work relationships, and slower advancement mark the careers of shy people.” Dr. Cheek points to research done at the Univ
