Employee Retention: 3 things that help increase Employee Satisfaction
If I had to pick 3 things that are most important to me in a job, what might they be? Life changes, all the time. And so do we. But, I've noticed that what I've looked for in a job has rarely changed.
The speaker delves into the intricacies of decision-making in job selection, beginning with an exploration of three distinct preferences illustrated through visual aids. It then identifies three pivotal factors—pay, interest in work, and co-worker dynamics—that heavily influence job seekers’ choices. Variations in the significance of these factors across different contexts are elucidated, showcasing how individual circumstances can alter priorities. The narrative underscores the importance of aligning personal preferences with career decisions to maximize satisfaction and fulfillment. Ultimately, the video encapsulates the essence of thoughtful consideration and prioritization in navigating the job market, advocating for a holistic approach to decision-making for enhanced professional fulfillment.
Summary
Factors Important in Job Search
Identifying three key factors:
Pay
Interest in work
Co-workers
Explanation of the importance of each factor in a job position.
Variation in Importance
Discussing different scenarios where the importance of factors varies.
Examples of how preferences can change based on individual circumstances.
Consideration and Decision-Making
Encouragement to consider personal preferences in job search.
Emphasis on aligning job choices with individual priorities for satisfaction.
Podcast
Transcript
0:04
Hey there, In this video, let’s take a look at three different options and what do these relate to? Let me first draw them as I speak here. When you look for a job, what are some things that are important? Right? In my mind, there are three things that are important to me and I’m going to represent them.
0:24
This is not my example. I’m just going to take some of my interests and try to depict that your diagram here. You can tell from what I’m doing here that I’m drawing is not one of my skills, but I like doing it. So these are circles, even if they don’t look like circles. So let’s say the first one, let’s go with want to try and split this equally, right?
0:48
Hopefully that looks like it’s equal. So let’s go with let’s draw the second one and I’m going to draw it so it’s not that equal right. I want to have 1-2 third piece here right?
1:04
So the left part of the circle is bigger and the other two are smaller. And then the third option I’m going to go with which is super disproportionate. So go with something like this, right? Where one of them is really big and maybe you can even you can even see that this is something like this, right. OK, yeah, so I just took in the three options and we try to divvy up the circle three ways.
1:38
What do we look for or what do I look for? What do most people I would say look for in a position, right? You want to make sure it pays what you’re expecting, right? Well enough. And the 2nd is you want it. You want to be able to do interesting things. Whatever it is that you do, it’s engineering, your medicine, law, construction, whatever it is that you do. I don’t know what I have to draw here to depict the interest. I’m just going to say interest because I don’t know what symbol might be the best one there.
2:09
The third is your Co workers, right? How much you like your team. Those are people. So the first is the first, the 1st circle. I’ve divided them, intended to divide them equally, so it should pay you well enough. You should be interested in what you’re doing and you should enjoy working with your team. Each of them is as important as the other, and they’re equally important Now. The second option is you might say, hey the pay. What it pays me is actually a little bit more or quite a bit more important.
2:42
Next is the people that I’m going to be working with. And the third could be what you actually do in that position, how interesting the work is. I mean, that’s another way to divvy it up. And again, you can swap this out. Dollars could be people for you and vice versa.
3:00
The third option is you’re saying, hey, I really, really want to get paid. Well, sure, you know, I want to work with people I like that’s, But there’s nowhere near as important as how much I get paid and how interesting the work is. It’s super not important to me, right? That’s another way to divvy it up. And again, the 2nd or the 3rd, the Sky’s the limit, right? I mean, not sky, there’s only a few combinations if you took three, but if you took ten factors that drove your decision making, then it could be a lot of permutations. Combinations 10C2, right?
3:32
And then math terms, I would imagine you need to make this decision right. It’s. I mean, there’s no real right or wrong answer for a lot of us. Maybe this works, but maybe at some point in your career you’re looking for this just because you’re getting started and you have student loans to pay and things of that nature.
3:54
Or there could be people who say, hey, I I don’t care so much for the type of work as much or how much it pays, It’s the the people I work with. So you could have a circle where where this dollar is actually repraised by by the people, right. But I think it doesn’t matter which ones you end up picking.
4:13
Make sure that you’re looking for a job you do all of your due diligence to making sure that that’s that that position in that company will actually align with the circle that you have in mind. If not, you’re not going to be happy camper, right? Anyways, that’s just a non-technical video.
4:33
Hopefully it made some sense to you. Thank you. And before I end the video, do not forget to sign up on snowpal.com and be more productive and manage your projects better. Thanks.
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