To Tell People I Work with that I'm Good at my Job

[Rhony]

Do you think it is unreasonable to be open with colleagues during a discussion of the right context, to admit to being good at your job? Does this come across as arrogance or confidence?

To word it better, to admit that I believe I am good at my job.

If you really are good at your job, your colleagues won’t need to be told.

It’s fine and comes across as confident as long as your not over the top and also seeing others value.

Without context it’s hard to be objective but you do sound a bit arrogant, sorry

What would the right context be??

I think that anyone that has to go around telling people they are good at their job/have a big penis/are very popular etc are the ones that aren’t!!

I think it can be quite calming to a difficult situation if it's kind of... don't worry... I know what I'm doing.
How did it come up?

Why not? There are a lot of of people that do a lousy job and blow their own trumpet. If you are doing the best you can there is nothing wrong with saying it.

I’ve said I’m good at my job before... not in a ‘wander round telling everyone’ kind of way, more in a ‘the boss is giving me unnecessary shit... I’m bloody good at my job!’ kind of way..

What do you have to gain from telling them directly? It's not unreasonable to have a feeling of pride in the quality of your work but a tacit implication that you are claiming to be better at them (on their end, even if it's not intended by you) might be, at best, merely irritating for them and, at worst, invite them to avoid helping you in future.

Very few jobs operate in isolation and, no matter how good you are, you will always benefit from others being willing to co-operate. Even if you're playing a zero sum game (e.g. for a single promotion opening) you'll be almost always be sabotaging yourself in the long run.

Context needed.

The only professionals I've met who've had to tell me they are good..... weren't

Wouldn't your colleagues normally know if you were good at your job?

People that have to tell other people they’re good at their job usually aren’t. And are arrogant to boot.

Well, I’ve been thinking on this recently

It is probably situation dependent, yet I am certainly in the place where if you don’t tell anyone what you do and how you do it well - there will be others who do and they will get the promotion

Sitting around being scared of talking about what you have factually achieved in case someone calls you arrogant can be pretty ineffective