What are you looking to gain from your next job?
What are you looking for in this position?
What are you looking for in a job?
Answer Tips
In this questions, they want to know what motivates you. Be careful not to let the panel think the only reason you want the job is because it is more pay or better benefits – if this is your reason you will probably not get the job!
The answer will depend on where you are in your career. If you are new, then you want to gain more experience and learn a wide variety of things. If you have a lot of previous experience, you might want to find something challenging and more opportunities for growth.
List of reasons
You can ref some reasons as follows:
• General working conditions,
• More openness between “boss” and employees,
• More money? Bigger organization?
• Are you looking to move up a high level?
• Develop certain skills,
• Are you looking for a certain atmosphere or organizational philosophy?
• How important is location?
• Teamwork, team lead, managerial position (delegating work – organizational duties), solitary work.
• Exciting work vs. routine work.
• Salary, benefits, traveling, turnover rates (for salesperson).
• Work hours (flexible vs fixed hours).
• Less formality.
Answer samples
You can begin your answer with this question: Tell me, Mr./Ms. Interviewer, what is a typical career path at company for someone with my skills and experience?
What is important to you? Two things are very important to me. One is my professionalism at work; the second is my family life.
Answer samples:
1. I want to gain experience in many areas of accounting. I want a position where things are not routine and where many of my accounting skills are utilized.
2. In my next job, I want more opportunities to write automation. In my previous position, we didn’t have these opportunities because we outsourced this work to other groups.