Job Satisfaction of Recent Graduates in Financial Services

Job Satisfaction of Recent Graduates in Financial Services
by Sharon A. DeVaney and Zhan (Sandy) Chen
Purdue University



In a survey on job satisfaction among recent college graduates in financial planning, respondents were asked to rank such factors as realization of expectations, company support, attitude, relationships with coworkers, and pay; the results, which indicate that these workers are reasonably satisfied with their jobs, support a "bottom-up" theory in which individuals sum up the positive and negative factors related to their jobs and decide how satisfied they are on that basis.

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