Work your way through each of the assessments described below.
 

Your interests	Your motivators
Your preferred skills	Your personality
Your preferred work values	Your educational aspirations

Your Work-Related Values Assessment

Instructions: This checklist provides a variety of values that different people find to be important in finding work satisfaction. Read each item carefully and note down those that are important to you, or that you feel would be important for you to have in a future job.


Achievement
Attaining mastery of a field, self-advancement, growth.

Adventure
Working in a job that requires taking risks.

Altruism
Devotion to the welfare of or service to others. Satisfaction garnered through pursuit of a greater good.

Authority
Working in a job in which you use your position to control others.

Challenge
Handling difficult or complex work.

Competition
Working in a job in which you compete with others.

Coworkers
Contact with colleagues that promotes a sense of belonging.

Creativity and Self Expression
Working in a job in which you use your imagination to find new ways to do or say something.

Flexible Work Schedule
Working in a job where you choose the work hours.

Helping Others
Working in a job in which your provide direct services to persons with problems.

High Salary
Working in a job where many workers earn a large amount of money.

Independence
Working in a job in which you decide for yourself what work to do and how to do it.

Influencing Others
Working in a job in which you influence the opinions or decisions of others.

Intellectual Stimulation
Working in a job which requires a considerable amount of thought and reasoning.

Interpersonal Relations
Being with other employees, colleagues.

Leadership
Working in a job in which you direct, manage, or supervise the activities of others

Moral Values
Behaving in a way consistent with some moral code.

Outside Work
Working out-of doors.

Persuading
Working in a job in which you personally convince others to take certain actions.

Physical Work
Working in a job which gives you status and respect in the community.

Prestige
Working in a job which gives you status and respect in the community.

Public Attention
Working in a job in which you have daily dealings with the public.

Recognition
Working in a job in which you gain public notice.

Research Work
Working in a job in which you follow established procedures requiring little change.

Seasonal Work
Working in a job where you are employed only at certain times of the year.

Security
Work that is stable and relatively free from turnover.

Social Welfare
Doing something that has meaning for others, working for society or another person's benefit.

Supervisory Relations
Work done under a fair, agreeable, and professionally nurturing boss.

Travel
Working in a job in which you take frequent trips.

Variety
Working in a job in which your duties change frequently.

Work with children
Working in a job where you teach or otherwise care for children.

Work with hands
Working in a job in which you use your hands or hand tools.

Work with machines or equipment
Working in a job in which you use machines or equipment.

Work with numbers
Working in a job in which you use mathematics or statistics.



My top work related values

From the items above, select the three values that seem most important for you to include in future jobs. When you have done this, write them out in their order of importance.