High Salary or Career Development

Welcome to Mylot Soochow! I would go for career development. Just last week, i was told by my boss that a former employee of ours reapplied to our company. She left our company around 3 years ago because of the salary and went to work to a competitor instead. And now, she was again interviewed by her old previous boss and was asked this question, "why would you want to reapply here?" The former employee said, "it is because i realized that i hunger for learning and that my current employer has not been able to satisfy my need for career development." Then the boss replied, "hmmm... so you realized that you learned a lot from me then. Am i right?" With a shy smile, the ex-employee said, "yes." Then the boss said, "Ok. I see that you are asking for higher pay now. Do you think... that now you are coming back to me with the same old skills that ive taught you before, do you think you have earned the privilege to even demand a higher salary now?" The employee just bit her lips because her boss is actually right. But her boss was not finished with the interview, she said, "You are coming back to again learn from me, that means you have had negative career development from your current employer, that doesnt serve you the right to request for higher pay." And the employee was really ashamed and couldnt speak because again, her old boss is right. She finally had the guts to say, "I realized that career development is far better than higher salary." With a smirk, her boss replied, "you just got your old job back." Money/ Salary isnt everything. It is even a lot shameful to re-apply to your former employer. But you know... an ex-employee to reapplies to her old employer is both a sign of humility and dedication to improvement. In this point, the employee was rehired because it has somehow curbed her boss' pride because superiors take it as acknowledgement of their keen leadership and mentorship skills. Good leaders and superiors are hard to find. On the other hand though, others choose better pay if they believe that they have earned enough guts, pride and experience to be a leader among a pact. In my humble opinion, it depends on the stage of your experience. If you are a newbie, go for career development. If you think you are strong enough and learned much, go out for higher salary.

When one has just been graduating then it is important for the person to fist find some work to get a work experience in life to be able to know how is the work environment then he may apply for a better one to build up a career path and undergo his dreams. The young graduate must always have this in mind that their job should not be necessary the best one as there are many apart from that.

Career development and salary must go hand in hand. The higher that you go up the corporate ladder (together with your experience), the higher salary that you will be dealing with. But when you grow with the same company, the increase is not that high since they will be investing in your development as well. You might want to consider greener pasteurs outside your present organization once you think that you have what it takes already.

Well both are important when it comes to career, but if you only focus on earning money more or less you will not be career oriented. I think personal development is more important, because when you develop as an employee, business man and as a person you will have high chances of earning more because you know more about the business/ the line of job that you are in.