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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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The mistakes we make in our everyday life

• 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