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What motivates you?

I am applying for a job at a business depot, and part of the application is set of personality questions. I've got most of them but then I got to the "WHAT MOTIVES YOU?" one and I am stumped. I wanna get hired and I don't want to sound like a greedy ******* who only cares about the money so what do you think is the best answer?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    BRING IN YOUR STRENGTHS HERE:

    mY ABILITY TO GET THINGS RIGHT THE FIRST TIME.

    mY EAGERNESS TO LEARN AND APPLY MODIFICATION TO GET BETTER OR SAME RESULTS IN SAME TIME

    AND MOST OF ALL....

    mY ABILITY.... TO KNOW... THAT I CAN AND I WILL

    Source(s): A BOOK THAT I READ
  • 1 decade ago

    I find this question a little confusing myself, however, you can take two routes. Use an answer out of a book. Or, find the true answer in yourself and communicate that. Honesty usually wins out in the long run, as your heart will be in it. Motivations DO change with time and experience.

    When you've done a job really really well in the past, when you've been adamant that you wanted it done right and when you've taken every pain to make it good-what motivated you? Why did you do so?

    I worked for someone recently, for a few months, in work I'd never done before. I thought my motivation was simply to learn a new skill.

    However, I realised due to my being needed less, that my motivation and enthusiasm went downhill. I realised that I felt anything I was doing wasn't particularly important to the company. The work I was doing was unpaid.

    What motivated me was a sense that the work I was doing, each little job I completed, was important to the company and that I really cared that the business succeeded. It took me 3 months to realise that.

    So, putting aside a wage, why do you want the job there? What is the company to you? Do you care about the job, a little, middling or are you enthusiastic? Where will you take the job?

    Will you actively want to push to help the company, or do you simply want a wage?

    These are a few questions I put to you, to ask yourself, to see if your OWN motivation(s) surface. Of course, you might realise you want something else, which in itself is a useful thing :-).

    Or you can simply checkout a book on how to successfully fill in personality tests and similar and fake it LOL.

    Source(s): My opinion, how I'd answer the question, and also what I'd look for if I was looking to employ you.
  • Bruce
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Here are some answers to that question, getting results, customer satisfaction, a job well done, learning new things and liking it, been part of a team, and opportunities for advancement that should get them going for you, I would use all of the above.

  • 1 decade ago

    Being the best at everything I do.Anything else is unexptable.Doing my best and feeling horrable because I was not the best.What move's me only succes that's what I strive for and the only thing I am happy with...

    Source(s): You should totaly say some thing like that.It show's you are driven. It say's nothing about free money.It tell's them you will be worth the money.
  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe you should stick to the word ******* it might be help.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    career growth

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