Career Assessment

 

Printable version of Career Discovery Worksheet – Career Discovery values

 

Consider the following list of work related values in the chart below.  Rate each value listed with the following scale as to their importance to you – “1” being extremely important and “5” being not important.

 

CAREER VALUES	Most Important     ?    Least Important
Enjoyment – getting a high level of satisfaction from your work	1	2	3	4	5
Excitement – getting a high degree of enthusiasm from your work	1	2	3	4	5
Social service – contributing to the betterment of your community, country, or world	1	2	3	4	5
Relationships – developing friendships through work	1	2	3	4	5
Income – making a large amount of money	1	2	3	4	5
Time – Having time to spend with family and friends	1	2	3	4	5
Opportunities for advancement – opportunity for rapid advancement	1	2	3	4	5
Status and prestige – having a job that is prestigious	1	2	3	4	5
Recognition – receiving recognition for your achievements by others	1	2	3	4	5
Authority – being in charge and making decisions	1	2	3	4	5
Creativity – being able to be creative in your work	1	2	3	4	5
Change and variety – having variety in your work more than routine	1	2	3	4	5
Job stability – having a stable job with the assurance of continued employment	1	2	3	4	5
Challenge – being regularly challenged at work with new activities	1	2	3	4	5
Fast paced – working in a fast-paced environment	1	2	3	4	5
Entrepreneur – working for yourself rather than someone else	1	2	3	4	5
Working with others – working collaboratively with others	1	2	3	4	5
Independence – working by yourself without significant contact with others	1	2	3	4	5
Physical work environment – being able to chose to work inside or outside	1	2	3	4	5
Work hours – being able to chose a set schedule or flexible hours	1	2	3	4	5
Location – the geographical location of where you work	1	2	3	4	5
Travel – having to travel or not travel for your work	1	2	3	4	5

 

From the list above, list your highest ranked qualities in order of importance to you with the first one being most important

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