Self-study
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"Surprising" Phenomenon
Most companies want conscientious employees, yet conscientious people are less likely, on average, to find a new job soon after being laid off.
Objective
This is an except question: there are a number of possible explanations for why conscientious people have more trouble finding new jobs (workers who shirk responsibilities may have other traits that help them find new jobs, the process of finding a new job may take longer for conscientious people, etc.), but the correct answer will not be helpful in resolving the paradox. It will either be irrelevant or make the apparent paradox even harder to explain.
8.
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a
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The total number of either type of job-seeker is irrelevant to explaining why an individual worker that shirks responsibilities has a higher likelihood of finding a new job quickly than does a conscientious worker.
b
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In other words, conscientious people may be pickier and take longer than others to find the right job, potentially explaining why they’re less likely to find a job within five months of being laid off.
c
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This means that some conscientious people interview poorly, which could explain why they struggle to find a new job in five months. Workers who shirked their responsibilities may not feel resentful about having been laid off, so they’re not negatively affected in this way.
d
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In other words that workers who shirked their responsibilities have a trait that could help them get hired, so this could explain why they’re more likely to find a new job within five months of being laid off.
e
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More savings means that conscientious people are perhaps not rushing as much when looking for a new job, which could explain why they’re less likely to have on within five months of being laid off.