Most people advance through their careers with legitimate training, and yet many professionals may still feel about as ill-qualified for their jobs as Demara was for his various "vocations."
Indeed, psychological scientists have explored the "impostor phenomenon," a term first coined in the 1970s to describe the intellectual and professional fraud that many high-achievers feel they're committing. Despite academic and career success, these individuals believe that others overestimate their abilities and will eventually discover their incompetence.
A team of Belgian psychological scientists recently set out to explore the impostor phenomenon (IP) more closely, and found that it correlated with specific personality, emotional, and behavioral traits. Professionals grappling with IP manifest high levels of maladaptive perfectionism and neuroticism, the researchers found. And those individuals tend to be relatively unhappy with their jobs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @01:47PM
How about when your job requires periodic training and testing for certification, and you catch your boss filling out everyone elses certification test with your answer sheet?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @01:51PM
How about when your job requires periodic training and testing for certification, and you catch your boss filling out everyone elses certification test with your answer sheet?
Whoa, did that really happen? We need Details, man, DETAILS!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:57PM
Sorry... I was forced to sign a non disclosure agreement to keep working there, and beyond if I leave... which I did.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:10PM
^I posted that^... Can you be a whistle-blower when there's an NDA?