What We Expect and What We Get? Total Rewards for Potential Employees

Abstract

It would be advised that those who are looking to change their job or get a new one to be very well informed with respect to what kind of organizational rewards they can expect. In most of the cases, people want to be rewarded, but do not know what they need. Compatibility tests used in professional practice or job rotation on workstations are great possibilities to find out what kind of organizational rewards people are able to claim.

Without a doubt, total reward will be applied differently, depending of people's profile (age, seniority, skills, and so on). Usually students from master and PhDs have no work experience and yet, they ask from their first jobs for advancement opportunities. Well, this represent a wrong choice since beginners in work should focus first of all on professional development.

This paper explains in two stages, before employment (at the job interview) and after employment, what types of organizational rewards are in demand, according to students from master and PhD programs.