Are We Bad At Choosing the Right Job?

The job hunt can be a grueling process to undertake. How do we select the right firm? It's a tough thing to try and quantify. Do we go off of culture, or focus more on money? Perhaps, there is a balance between the two. Professor of business psychology, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, suggests that there are specific factors that tend to play into our job selection, which he believe naturally leans toward selecting the wrong jobs:

1. Money talks. "As meta-analytic studies show, there is almost zero correlation between pay and job satisfaction. For example, lawyers earning $160,000 per year are as satisfied with their jobs as nurses making $35,000 per year. However, although money doesn’t satisfy, it still motivates," writes Chamorro-Prezumic. In short, we may be letting money dictate our career decisions to heavily
2. We tend to tolerate bad jobs. "You can put people in meaningless roles and under bad managers, and they will still be reluctant to try something else," says the professor. We tend t...

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