7 Cognitive Biases to Avoid in Your Interview

Anchoring Bias

In any interview, avoid taking the call for first. Suppose, the hiring manger inquires your expected salary, avoid stating an approximate value. Let the opponent speak because your inexperience can make you call for less than their standard package. In that case, you might get hired but your scope to earn more will end on the spot. Alike this for any definite topic, let the hiring officials take the first call. Your anchoring or call for first might mislead the interview session.

Availability Heuristic

Psychologists assert human beings remember things that are more important and forget the unnecessary ones. They remember the important ones from the list of available heuristic or plus points. Therefore, your aim during the interview is to make enough of such remembering comments or statements, so that you are the first one the HR remembers after conducting several interviews. Hence your preparation must aim in standing superior from all other applicants to occupy the top thought of the hiring manager.

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