What Is Your Motivation To Seek New Employment

What Is Your Motivation To Seek New Employment One of my LinkedIn contacts, Marianna Fichtenholtz, asked me a question on LinkedIn that Ive thought about for the last week: If you were a job seeker, how would you answer the following question: What is your primary motivation to seek new employment? My first thought was to make money again.   When I was a job seeker it was not by choice, and my funds were drying up. But all week Ive batted this around, and come up with a few other ideas: To make MORE money. Some companies or titles or jobs or career paths or industries might offer me more money if I switch. Because Im done here. An executive might have accomplished what he/she came to do, or in my case, there wasnt anything more to learn (which was the reason I transitioned out of one of my first jobs).   If youve reached the end, and youll know it before you get there, then perhaps its time to look. To find something more secure. JibberJobber users are pretty savvy they realize nothing is totally secure, but some things can be more secure that what they have now. To find something more aligned with your values. Whether your values are aligned with tree huggers, liberals, conservatives, ultra-conservatives if the company you work for isnt congruent or tolerant or conducive to your values, you might find it taxing to go to work each day. To escape HELL. Been there.   Done that.   Its better to move on than stay. To do something with a purpose. In one company I did cool stuff but the company wasnt necessarily doing anything life-changing in the world.   I didnt think Id care, but when I started JibberJobber and really started affecting individuals lives, WOW, Im hooked on having a job that has a purpose. Let me throw this out to you what is (or has been) YOUR primary motivation to seek new employment? What Is Your Motivation To Seek New Employment One of my LinkedIn contacts, Marianna Fichtenholtz, asked me a question on LinkedIn that Ive thought about for the last week: If you were a job seeker, how would you answer the following question: What is your primary motivation to seek new employment? My first thought was to make money again.   When I was a job seeker it was not by choice, and my funds were drying up. But all week Ive batted this around, and come up with a few other ideas: To make MORE money. Some companies or titles or jobs or career paths or industries might offer me more money if I switch. Because Im done here. An executive might have accomplished what he/she came to do, or in my case, there wasnt anything more to learn (which was the reason I transitioned out of one of my first jobs).   If youve reached the end, and youll know it before you get there, then perhaps its time to look. To find something more secure. JibberJobber users are pretty savvy they realize nothing is totally secure, but some things can be more secure that what they have now. To find something more aligned with your values. Whether your values are aligned with tree huggers, liberals, conservatives, ultra-conservatives if the company you work for isnt congruent or tolerant or conducive to your values, you might find it taxing to go to work each day. To escape HELL. Been there.   Done that.   Its better to move on than stay. To do something with a purpose. In one company I did cool stuff but the company wasnt necessarily doing anything life-changing in the world.   I didnt think Id care, but when I started JibberJobber and really started affecting individuals lives, WOW, Im hooked on having a job that has a purpose. Let me throw this out to you what is (or has been) YOUR primary motivation to seek new employment?