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CareerBliss Data Shows When it Comes to Love or Money Money Doesnt Buy Career Happiness
New Data Reveals Relationships with Co-workers, Daily Work Schedules, and the Quality of Their Work Have More Effect on Job Satisfaction Levels than Compensation

Irvine, CA (February 9, 2011) CareerBliss, the leading online career community helping people find joy and success at every step in their careers, announces new data revealing the key driver of work happiness may not come in the form of a paycheck, rather in an employees sense of accomplishment, their relationship with peers, and the daily tasks associated with their work. CareerBliss evaluated more than 200,000 data points from independent employee reviews to determine what drives career happiness and makes some people love their job while others hate it. The CareerBliss data reveals that even more important than annual income are essential factors such as working at a company where there is room to collaborate with a well-rounded group of peers and being able to have control over their work.

CareerBliss evaluated thousands of employee reviews in multiple job type categories to find the top three factors which contribute to work happiness:

1.The work one does: The specific tasks one does on a day to day basis 2. The way one works: How much control ones has over their daily tasks 3.The people one works with: Their relationship with co-workers

These factors were present in a majority of reviews. In comparison, salary did not rank on the level of importance in the majority of the job type categories reviewed nor was salary ranked as an important value when measuring overall job satisfaction levels.

CareerBliss also found that certain professions yield happier employees. For example, people in biotech and customer service related jobs averaged higher happiness scores than those in the legal or healthcare field.

Happiest Workers
CareerBliss Job Happiness Ranking 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Job Industry Biotech Customer Service Education Admin Clerical Purchasing Procurement Accounting Finance Nonprofit - Social Services Healthcare Legal Average Score 3.275 3.108 3.084 3.066 3.065 3.059 3.046 3.039 3.039 3.035

Heidi Golledge, CEO and Co-founder of CareerBliss says, Salary is always an important component of every job, however, the CareerBliss research shows that money is not enough to keep good employees happy. Before accepting a new job, it is imperative to know a companys culture and truly understand what the new job entails. From the employers perspective, realizing salary is not one of the key drivers of workplace happiness can help employers focus on the areas which will drive job satisfaction to create a happier environment for all. Methodology: The CareerBliss data evaluates the key factors which affect work happiness, including: ones relationship with their boss and co-workers, their work environment, job resources, compensation, growth opportunities, company culture, company reputation, their daily tasks, and job control over the work that they do on a daily basis.

The data accounts for how an employee values each factor as well as how important that factor is to the employees overall happiness. The two scores are combined to create an average score. All

factors and values are rated one through five, a five indicates extreme happiness with a category, while a one indicates extreme unhappiness. ### About CareerBliss CareerBliss is an online career community designed to help everyone find happiness in the workplace. An information hub for everyone who works, employers, job seekers and recruiters, CareerBliss offers the ability to find out what makes them happy and the ability to seek that out in other jobs or improve it in their current one using our PhD Board of Advisors, more than six million independent company reviews and salary comparisons, and more than three million job listings. For more information, visit: www.CareerBliss.com