Pay-hike and opportunities to learn are what most job seekers feel deprived of: Monster Poll

In a recent poll conducted by Monster, around 29% of the respondents feel that ‘pay-hike’ is what they feel most deprived of in their current job. This probably makes the salary hike as one of the main factors among others when it comes to job satisfaction.

However, it is not all job-seekers who think lack of ‘pay-hike’ to be the most important aspect in their current job. About 23% respondents felt there is no ‘opportunity to learn new things’ in their current work. This offers an important insight to managers, who consistently need to look at ways and means to provide new learning opportunities for their staff.






The poll result makes a stronger case for providing an environment where employees can learn and improve their skills. This is strengthened by the fact that 19% of the respondents felt that the ‘opportunity to improve skill set’ is missing at their current job.

Interestingly, if we combine the two, the percentage of respondents who want to learn new things (23%) and subjects who want to improve their skill set (19%) goes to 42%. This is way more than the number of respondents who voted ‘pay-hike’ (29%) as the major factor they are deprived of in their current job. The message for employers is loud and clear. They need to look at these two areas to engage and retain talent in their organisation.

Surprisingly only 17% voted ‘promotion’ and 12% voted ‘relationship with the manager/employer’ – the other two options provided to job-seekers in the poll question.

We asked:

At your current or most recent job, which of the following do you feel most deprived of? 

– Promotion
– Pay-hike
– Opportunity to learn new things
– Opportunity to improve skill set
– Relationship with the manager/employer

Voice your opinion, click here to take part in our poll.