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Who influenced you to choose this profession?

Who influenced you to choose this profession?

The interviewer wants to know why did you choose this career.
What were the influencing factors to choose this profession. How did you arrive at this decision? Who are your role models? What is your motivations to choose this career? Do you have a story of childhood experience or role model who initiated you to select this career.
Tell your story how you stumbled upon this profession and industry.
Do's
• Tell your story about an event which influenced you to choose
• Show how this profession helps you to make a difference
• Show how this career keeps you inspired
Don'ts
• Because my friend is doing the same.
• This provides job security
• My parents chose this profession for me
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• What made you decide on this profession?
• What inspired you to go into this line of work?
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• We are hardwired to make these mistakes • Few biases are simply evolutionary • These errors affect all of us including the bright ones • Experience is just not enough to overcome • but expertise is required to recognize and overcome

Few of biases as below · Anchoring - When an individual depends too heavily on an initial piece of information during decision making · Fixed pie - When we assume that our interests conflict with the other party's interests and we play adversarial · Framing - When we decide on our options differently when the options are presented with positive or negative connotations · Vividness – When we pay attention to strong features at the expense of less, that could be more impactful · Over confidence – When our subjective confidence is greater than the objective accuracy · Escalation – When initial decision is followed up with an irrational decision to justify the initial decision

Few ways to mitigate these biases are · Learn to recognize the bias · Use slow, effortful and logical thinking (System 2) · Avoid fast, automatic and effortless thinking (System 1) · Avoid negotiations which are thrust upon when not ready · Learn through use of stories, examples, exercises · Bring an outsider perspective