The "drivers" change depending on the situation and as such this question is impossible to answer. They themselves are subject to the hierarchy of needs so to speak.
For example, if money is my number one driver, yet all positions satisfy that driver by offering more than I want, it ceases to become my main driver, and I move down the list.
It's possible - in fact likely - that I receive one or more offers that fulfill all my drivers. At that point, I'm not making the decision based on these items, but might instead create a new driver - say, the chance to work on a space startup over a social media one - and use that to choose between the offers.
The answers you receive for this question aren't telling you the things they think you are telling you.
In addition to that, imagining anything is going to give you what the candidate thinks they are like, not what they are actually like. If you stick to assessing actions that they have actually done, you'll get a better idea of what they will do in the future, rather than what they think they will do. My experience has told me that - sadly - few people know themselves well at all.
Agreed. I couldn't answer this question without the answer being a very complicated and branching flowchart.
If I were choosing between a job that paid $120k and one that paid $110k, the money wouldn't even factor into it, but if I were choosing between a job that paid $110k and $250k, then the money would certainly factor into it. Which isn't to say that I'd automatically choose the $250k job, but that the $110k job would have to score MUCH better on other factors.
The criteria I'd use in evaluating which job to take is way too fluid to be boiled down to a list of 3-5 things.
For example, if money is my number one driver, yet all positions satisfy that driver by offering more than I want, it ceases to become my main driver, and I move down the list.
It's possible - in fact likely - that I receive one or more offers that fulfill all my drivers. At that point, I'm not making the decision based on these items, but might instead create a new driver - say, the chance to work on a space startup over a social media one - and use that to choose between the offers.
The answers you receive for this question aren't telling you the things they think you are telling you.
In addition to that, imagining anything is going to give you what the candidate thinks they are like, not what they are actually like. If you stick to assessing actions that they have actually done, you'll get a better idea of what they will do in the future, rather than what they think they will do. My experience has told me that - sadly - few people know themselves well at all.