Moving away for the dream job?

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Monster-Poll shows: 40 percent of the surveyed Germans would leave their familiar environment for their dream job

Around one third of the German respondents negates in favor of their familiar environment

 Eschborn, 02 September 2010 – What wouldn’t we have done as a child for our dream job fire fighter or doctor! Even though interests may change over the years, dedication and initiative are still necessary to achieve one’s dream job. Sometimes flexibility in location choice of employment is also needed. A poll of the best-known German online career portal Monster.de shows that 40 percent of the German respondents would abandon their familiar environment for the dream job. 27 percent of the respondents would decide in favor of moving to another city in case a financial advantage in form of a higher salary would result from it. After all, friends and familiar environment are more important than the job to one third of the German respondents.

The findings of the poll at a glance:

The comparison with Austria and Switzerland shows that the willingness to exchange their familiar environment with the dream job is higher in both countries. Thus, 42 percent of the Austrian and even half of the Swiss respondents state that they would move away for their dream job. For 29 percent of the respondents from Austria but only 22 percent from Switzerland the payment plays a role in their decision making. 29 percent of the Austrian respondents and 27 percent of the respondents from Switzerland say that their friends and familiar environment are more important to them than the dream job.

„If the focus is not limited to one particular region during the job search one can increase the opportunities on the job market and for the dream job significantly“, says Marcus Riecke, CEO Central Europe Monster Worldwide. „This step should be thought through in advance and all advantages and disadvantages should be weighed up as well because not everyone wants to abandon friends and familiar environment for that as our poll shows.

4.651 interviewees in Germany, Austria and Switzerland voted from August 9 until August 22, 2010. The career platform Monster regularly conducts surveys on its local as well as global websites on the subject of workplace and career. These polls are not representative; they represent the opinion of Monster users.

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Über Monster Deutschland:

Monster, www.monster.de, ist das bekannteste private Online-Karriereportal in Deutschland* mit einem umfassenden Service- und Informationsprogramm rund um Beruf und Karriere. Das Unternehmen bringt Arbeitgeber und qualifizierte Arbeitskräfte auf allen Karrierestufen zusammen und bietet Jobsuchenden passgenaue Unterstützung für die individuelle Karriereplanung. Firmensitz der Monster Worldwide Deutschland GmbH ist Eschborn bei Frankfurt/Main. Die Monster Worldwide Deutschland GmbH ist ein Tochterunternehmen der Monster Worldwide Inc. mit Sitz in New York. Monster Worldwide ist seit 1994 ein weltweit führendes Portal für Online-Rekrutierung und unterstützt Menschen dabei, ihre Lebensziele zu verwirklichen. Monster Worldwide ist in Märkten in Europa, Nordamerika, Lateinamerika und Asien präsent. Monster Worldwide ist an der New York Stock Exchange gelistet (NYSE: MWW) und im Aktienindex S&P 500 notiert.  

* Nielsen Befragung – Juni 2010

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