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I'm a first year student who has not had the most ideal law school experience and now I've messed it up even more. Recently, a few seniors interviewed me after I volunteered for a certain role and it was a disaster. I wasn't selected even though I was literally the best fit for it.
I thought about it and realized that I hate speaking about myself or my achievements - I am too humble for my own good. I've always believed that it's not you but your work that should speak for itself. But here's the problem, if people haven't seen your work, they'll only know about you if you market yourself.
My batchmates know that I'm brilliant and excel at whatever I do but my seniors probably now think that I'm an incompetent, bumbling fool who doesn't know how to mark citations lol. People clearly less competent than me have been selected for the role, simply because they have the gift of the tongue and know how to market themselves! I realize that this will be a bigger issue in the future if I don't correct it now; I'll mess up interviews for internships and jobs.
Closeout: How do I overcome this? I will be extremely grateful if you could take a few minutes of your time and give some tips, based on your experiences. Also, how do I do damage control on my reputation among seniors and improve on my conversational skills! I suck at conversations and coming up with banger sentences.
If you want to improve your interview skills, watch a few mock interviews on YouTube, that might help. There are multiple mock interview rounds of UPSC toppers on YT.