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Career Planning
Work Values Assessment |
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What motivates you? What is important to
you? Money? Prestige? Helping people? Living in a rural
area? If your career choice is not compatible with your
values, chances are likely that you will not feel satisfied
with your job.
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value is something that you consider or rate highly. Values are
what we think is important.
There are no good or bad values. What is important to you is a
personal choice and the right one. It may differ from what is
important to someone else, but that is ok. It may sound simple
to list your values, but often we do not know what we
value. Our answers are heavily influenced by what we think is
the “right” answer and by what we have been taught by our
families and culture.
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Directions: |
Print the sheet, complete the exercise and then
record your reflections in a career exploration/planning
notebook. Rank order the following work-related values
1-15. Remember there is no good/bad value. Try not to
answer the way that you think you should, but they way you
feel is the most important for you.
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Affiliation |
Be part of a particular group/organization
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Challenge
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Performing tasks that are new or test your
skills
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Competition
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A setting where doing better than your
co-workers or your own standards is important
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Contributing
to society
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Doing something
to make the world/community you live in a better place
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Creativity
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Being able to
generate new ideas or approaches to a project, program and
organizational structure
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Expertness
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Being seen and
recognized as an “expert” in a given area
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Growth |
Be able to learn
and advance in your position/career
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Helping others |
Be involved in
helping people in a direct way
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Independence
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Being able to
structure your day/job without others telling you what to do
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Power |
Having control, authority or influence over
others
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Public contact
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Have a lot of
day-to-day interaction with the public
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Recognition
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Acknowledged by
others for doing something well
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Security
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Be assured of
keeping your job
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Variety |
Having many
different work tasks and responsibilities
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Wealth |
Making lots of
money
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Other |
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Other |
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Reflection: |
In a career exploration/planning notebook
record your thoughts in response to the following:
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Looking at your top 5 choices, what patterns
can you see?
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How may these values fit/not fit with certain
career choices?
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| Summary: |
In your notebook, make a list
of your top 5 values |
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Next Step: |
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Individual
Guidance If
you would like additional or individualized assistance to
explore your work values or see how they match to careers, please
schedule an appointment to meet with a
career counselor. |
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Career Services
Lasell College
1844 Commonwealth Avenue • Newton, MA 02466
Tel: 617.243.2124 ~ Fax: 617.243.2380
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