Employment counselors often face the conundrum of whether to advise people to take a job or to hold out for something that better matches their interests. This study investigated whether matched interests in an initial job predicted the subsequent career journey of 336 sales engineers and whether this made a difference to longer term work satisfaction and tenure. Results showed that although the first job significantly influenced people's future career journey, personality and job characteristics were likely to be more influential than matched interests in predicting work satisfaction. Thus, people may be better off taking well‐designed jobs than holding out for matched interests.

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任职，任职：探索匹配兴趣对职业道路和工作满意度的重要性

就业咨询师经常面临着一个难题，即建议人们从事工作还是坚持不懈地追求更符合自己利益的事情。这项研究调查了最初工作中的兴趣匹配是否可以预测336名销售工程师的后续职业生涯，以及这是否对长期工作满意度和任期有所影响。结果表明，尽管第一份工作显着影响了人们的未来职业生涯，但在预测工作满意度时，性格和工作特征可能比匹配的兴趣更具影响力。因此，与坚持追求匹配的兴趣相比，人们可能会更好地从事精心设计的工作。