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What have you achieved beyond your work?

What have you achieved beyond your work?

Interviewer needs to understand you as a whole person.
What are your interests and what activities drive you beyond work? What motivates and inspires you in your life? May be it is fitness, reading, hiking....
Bring out your strengths, qualities such as tenacity, focus, positive attitude in these beyond work activities.
Do's
• Tell about non work related activities and show your achievement
• Tell how does it help you as a person and contributes to your work life
• Show that you diverse interests to live a meaningful life
• Show you contribute to society
Don'ts
• No I focus on only work
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• What is your biggest achievement outside of work?
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