Getting raises and finding jobs are the top two work-related goals for the nation’s white-collar workers this year, a recent jobs survey by the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) found.
From Mar. 1 to Mar. 31, the council’s official online job bank eJob asked 4,510 workers about their professional goals for the year. The top two goals that workers have set for themselves this year are getting a pay raise (1,494 people, 33.13 percent of all surveyed) and landing a job (1,493 people, 33.10 percent of all surveyed).
Passing exams for public sector jobs came in at third place, with 705 workers (15.63 percent) choosing this as their work--related goal this year. Making a successful job switch was another popular goal, representing 335 respondents (7.43 percent), followed by 183 workers (4.06 percent) who hoped they would be able to stop putting in overtime, 133 workers (2.95 percent) who hoped to pass professional certification exams and 104 workers (2.31 percent) who wanted to start their own businesses.
Only 63 people (1.40 percent) chose getting a promotion as their professional goal this year, contrary to the view that most office workers strive to climb the corporate ladder, the survey showed.
The results of the survey underscored the widespread sentiment under-compensation of white-collar workers. Hopeful that an economy recovering from the past years’ recession would bring more jobs and fatter paychecks, about two in every five workers expected pay raises of more than 10 percent this year, a separate eJob survey in February found.
However, about one month later, more than half of office workers polled by another eJob survey said they did not have high hopes of getting raises this year. Many expect that switching is the only way to get better pay.
Workers also said that they saw public sector jobs as favorable because of their stability and relatively better compensation packages, which would explain the popularity of testing for openings in the public sector.
In related news, the council said there were currently more than 170,000 job openings in its online job bank that did not require any prior work experience.
As of the end of last month, there were 204,800 job openings posted on the council’s online job bank, with 174,000 of the positions seeking applicants who did not need to have any work experience.
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