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Do you feel performance should be rewarded over experience?
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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
The interviewer would like to know your thoughts on being paid based on your work performance, versus being compensated solely on your years of experience. As the workforce landscape changes, more employees are requesting compensation based on delivered results. Think about how you would rather be compensated; tenure vs. results. Share your thoughts with the interviewer and support your answer with an example, if possible.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"I feel that employees should be paid, and rewarded, based on their performance. A new employee will find motivation in being rewarded for performance, and it encourages healthy competition with tenured employees."
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In a perfect world, an employee with both work experience and performance would get the job. If I had to choose one over the other, I would choose performance. The reason is that work performance shows an employee's drive, focus, and commitment to his or her duties in a role. The employee takes their job seriously and cares about their contribution to a team.
Lauren's Feedback
You have a great premise, but note that the question relates to reward versus landing the job. I altered the language slightly to address the slight discrepancy.
In a perfect world, an employee would be rewarded for their experience and performance. I, however, believe performance should be rewarded over experience. Work performance displays an employee's ability to remain steadfast in their drive, focus, and commitment. A strong performance indicates Personal Responsibility and a high level of care for their work and contribution to the team.
Anonymous Answer
In the end, it’s the performance that matters. But sometimes experience is what helps you to achieve that performance. For example, my breadth of experience is what allows me to pull together disparate fields of science to solve a customer’s marketing challenge. How does Apple reward performance?
Marcie's Feedback
Excellent! It's great that you give props to both performance and experience but give the edge to performance which is probably what the interviewer wants. Including a question is a good idea as it'll likely spark a conversation and show that you're interested and engaged. Nice job!
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