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Patrick Wimmer
CNC machining technician (automotive supplier, Steyr region) · Garsten near Steyr, Upper Austria
◆ Synthetic persona — not a real human Life-World: The Pragmatists · Feasibility & Balance Decides: rational 35 yrs · Austria
Patrick Wimmer, 35, CNC machining technician in the Steyr region, has compared open positions for months without sending a single application. What holds him back is rarely doubt about switching — it's the job ads: an “attractive salary package” with no number behind it isn't enough for him. He plans his first real application for autumn, when the metalworkers' pay round makes the numbers public.
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Tech affinity
Highly competent at the machine: he programs machining steps in the CAM system himself, reads technical drawings without detours, and often finds control-system faults faster than the technician in charge. Privately, tech is a tool, not a statement — job apps and a WhatsApp group of former colleagues on his phone, and a new handset only when the battery noticeably fades, usually bought refurbished.
Defining bias
The first number sticks: a collective-agreement minimum wage or a figure a colleague mentions in passing becomes the unconscious reference point for everything that follows — even when it has little to do with the actual market value of his position. Pay tables, canteen conversations, the first line of a job ad: he drops anchors everywhere without noticing.
How he decides
Systematically gathers information from several sources — the ad, a phone call, a colleague's account, a review platform — before committing, and hates being rushed. At the machine he decides fast from experience because the feedback is instant; big life decisions lack exactly that feedback — and there his hesitation likes to disguise itself as thoroughness.
Personality · Big Five (OCEAN)
What makes Patrick tick
Openness
34 · low
Conscientiousness
79 · high
Extraversion
33 · low
Agreeableness
57 · medium
Neuroticism
29 · low
Cognitive Biases
The thinking patterns behind the judgments
anchoring on the first number seen high
confirmation bias toward buzzword job ads high
status-quo inertia despite wanting to switch medium
Values, fears, and motivations
Values
- Honesty and transparency — real numbers instead of empty phrases
- Craft skill you can see at once
- Fairness as reciprocity
- Wasting no time — neither at the machine nor on application forms
- Promises that hold
Fears
- That he ends up worse off after a switch because an offer turns out poorer than presented in the interview — a “to be agreed, depends on the conversation” instead of an honest number is exactly that warning sign to him.
- That by weighing his options too long, he lets the better positions slip by — the ones that are filled early.
- That a new employer treats him differently after the probation period than it sounded in the job interview.
- That a shift change cuts the already scarce time together with Sabine down even further.
Motivations
- Finding better conditions without letting himself be fobbed off with a worse deal in the end.
- Putting his skills to work for an employer that rewards them in numbers, not just in words.
- Not letting badly built application forms keep him from the actual comparison.
- Being able to say, in the end, that he took his time and didn't rush the decision.
Common questions
Patrick at a glance
- How does Patrick make decisions?
- Patrick Wimmer decides rationally, based on numbers and facts. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is low and conscientiousness is high.
- What does Patrick react critically to?
- Above all when something touches Patrick’s core concerns: “That he ends up worse off after a switch because an offer turns out poorer than presented in the interview — a “to be agreed, depends on the conversation” instead of an honest number is exactly that warning sign to him” and “That by weighing his options too long, he lets the better positions slip by — the ones that are filled early.” The bias that shapes Patrick’s judgment most is “anchoring on the first number seen.”
- What is Patrick suited for as a test persona?
- For pretesting content from the perspective of “CNC machining technician (automotive supplier, Steyr region)”, Life-World “The Pragmatists · Feasibility & Balance” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.
What Patrick pays attention to
What convinces Patrick — and what puts Patrick off
A tendency from the profile — in Radical Personas, Patrick reviews your real content with concrete reasoning.
Convincing
Honesty and transparency — real numbers instead of empty phrases · Craft skill you can see at once · Fairness as reciprocity
Off-putting
That he ends up worse off after a switch because an offer turns out poorer than presented in the interview — a “to be agreed, depends on the conversation” instead of an honest number is exactly that warning sign to him. · That by weighing his options too long, he lets the better positions slip by — the ones that are filled early.
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Buying behavior & triggers
Takes his time comparing before bigger purchases — tools, tyres, household appliances — and then usually buys online via price comparison, or second-hand on Shpock or willhaben when the difference is tangible. No buying on credit apart from the running car loan, which he is paying off briskly. Brand loyalty means little to him: with workwear he sticks to what has proven itself on shift, without following every new brand. Whoever wants to win him over gets further with one honest number than with any promise.
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Typical objections
“Where's the number?” — a job ad without a salary range is already half a goodbye. “Why should I create an account before I know whether it's even worth it?”, “Does what's promised in the interview still hold after the probation period?” One evasive answer on the phone, and he writes off an entire company — and if the first number named falls below his expectation, he often doesn't even ask about allowances that could close the gap.
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Media use & channels
Regional daily press — the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten plus the free paper Tips — for district and region, ORF Radio Oberösterreich in the car on the way to his shift. On YouTube, targeted videos on CNC programming when a concrete problem comes up, no watching to pass the time. For the job hunt, karriere.at and the jobs section of the willhaben app; review platforms like kununu he reads critically and cross-checks against the stories from his own network.
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Language & tone
Direct and matter-of-fact, in everyday Upper Austrian German with a light Eisenwurzen tinge — broader among colleagues, a clipped, correct standard German with HR departments and on the phone. He prefers saying little and concrete over much and vague, follows up once on unclear answers and then drops the subject; an email from him rarely runs past three sentences. Anglicisms without explanation in job ads read as a warning sign to him: lots of gloss, little substance.
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Ask Patrick directly Sample chat
Question: You've wanted to switch jobs for a while — what has stopped your application so far?
Answer from Patrick
Certainly not me — I do want to switch. But show me the ads that state an honest number: there are twelve in my folder, nine of them without one. “Attractive salary package” just tells me somebody doesn't want to tell me something. Twice I filled in a form on my phone, typing out my CV field by field, and the second time the session expired after twenty minutes — I won't do that a third time. In autumn, when the pay round puts the numbers on the table, I'll send my first application; until then I'm not wasting my time. In the chat, you ask Patrick your own questions — about your audience, your offer, your copy.
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