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How can we motivate you on the job?
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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Every employer aims to identify the motivators of each member of their staff and their team as a whole. Talk to the interviewer about the ways you find motivation on the job. Elaborate on your drivers and motivators in your career as well. Where there is passion, there is motivation.
Kimberly is a freelance writer and editor with a decade of experience in the education field, including her time as a pre-kindergarten teacher.
"I am best motivated through words of praise and recognition for a job well done. I like to know that my efforts are noticed. In my current position, we have a leaderboard, and I like that concept because it creates a healthy bit of competition."
Kimberly is a freelance writer and editor with a decade of experience in the education field, including her time as a pre-kindergarten teacher.
Here are some ways an employer may try to motivate you. Which ones resonate most with you?
- Incentive programs where points are earned
- Showing complete trust in your work and performance
- Setting smaller, more achievable goals
- Helping you find your greater career purpose
- Being a positive example to you
- Maintaining an open and transparent workplace
- Personalized incentives vs. Team driven incentives
- Getting to know you on a personal level
- Positive feedback-based rewards system
- Offering a stable work/life balance by encouraging time off
- Letting you know your voice matters
- Allowing you to take the lead on projects that excite you
- Handing out big-picture projects so you feel that you are contributing to the company's future
- Public recognition
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Personally, the best motivation on the job is having an open and transparent workplace where the expectations are clear and concise. When this environment is present, it allows for complete trust in my work and performance. Aside from this, words of affirmation and praise are always a nice gesture for a job well done.
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Nice! You are clear about what motivates you: clear expectations, trust in your abilities, and verbal praise. The interviewer will find all of these requests reasonable and likely be impressed that you don't even mention money at all. Good job!
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