{"id":3592,"date":"2018-03-23T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2018-03-22T22:54:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T22:54:53","slug":"entry-level-experienced-job-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/entry-level-experienced-job-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry-Level or Experienced: Who Finds Work More Challenging?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an employer, it&#8217;s important that you not only keep your team productive, but that you keep them challenged.\u00a0After all, one of the reasons people leave their jobs is because they&#8217;ve stopped learning. And if they&#8217;ve stopped learning at your company they&#8217;re going to try and learn somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Right now,\u00a071% of people feel challenged at work, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/21-are-you-challenged-at-work\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably.com<\/a>. More than 10,000 people across the tech sector participated in the query.<\/p>\n<p><b>Challenged at every stage<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It may seem that those in the earliest parts of their career would feel more challenged than those in the later parts, but that&#8217;s not the case: the rate varied between 70% and 72% among workers of all experience levels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3595 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/chall.jpg\" alt=\"chall\" width=\"491\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/chall-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/chall.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 85vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Women say they don&#8217;t feel as challenged<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The results are close, but a higher percentage of men (73%) say they feel challenged at work compared with 69% of women.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3593 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/chall1.jpg\" alt=\"chall1\" width=\"487\" height=\"51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/chall1-300x31.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/chall1.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 85vw, 487px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>People in executive roles and HR take the cake<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Those in HR and executive roles have the highest rates of saying they find their job challenging (78% and 87% respectively), followed next by those in engineering and product. People in admin, legal, and customer support had the lowest rates of saying they find their job challenging.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3596 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/chal4.jpg\" alt=\"chal4\" width=\"510\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/chal4-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/chal4.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 85vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of March 22.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an employer, it&#8217;s important that you not only keep your team productive, but that you keep them challenged.\u00a0After all, one of the reasons people leave their jobs is because they&#8217;ve stopped learning. And if they&#8217;ve stopped learning at your company they&#8217;re going to try and learn somewhere else. Right now,\u00a071% of people feel challenged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/entry-level-experienced-job-challenges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}