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reviewed the link between interest fit and job satisfaction across 105 studies spanning over 65 years. And they did find that whether people are interested in their job predicted job satisfaction, but not nearly as much as they had expected.
"Our main finding was that interest fit significantly predicts satisfaction, but it's not as strong of a relation as people expect," said Kevin Hoff, assistant professor of industrial-organizational psychology, in a press release. "Being interested in your work seems more important for job performance and the downstream consequences of performing well, like raises or promotions."
The practice is not entirely misguided. After all, the study found that whether your interests align
with what you do at work is strongly correlated with how successful you will be. "Our results show that people who are more interested in their jobs tend to be slightly more satisfied, but interest assessments are more useful for guiding people towards jobs in which they will perform better and
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