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- How did you get started in your career?
- What has been the “aha moment” in your career?
- What job positions did you go through to get to your current position?
- What does a typical workday look like for you?
- What is your most important professional responsibility?
- What was the single most important thing you have learned throughout your career? (Professionally or personally)
- What are the most significant changes you see on the horizon with regards to your industry?
- What sort of obstacles arise when attempting to evoke change in your industry?
- What would you advise a college junior or senior to do to get started in a career like yours?
- What do you wish you had studied or had done more of in college?
- What professional certifications are expected or useful? (e.g. CFA, CFP)
- Do you recommend earning a graduate degree? If so, in what?
- How did you discover your strengths?
- How do you leverage your strengths in your career?
- If you had to use one word to describe your career what would it be? Why?
- How do I become the best possible candidate for a position in your field?
- Do you recommend any finance, accounting, or management books to become better prepared to enter your field?
- What kind of work/life balance do you have now? What was it like when you started your career?
- How did you discover ways to add value?
- Do you feel like you are helping the community by what you do?
- Do you recommend starting a career in your industry?
- If had to begin your career all over again, what would you do the same or differently?