What are Career Values?
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Values are things that are important to us. What do you value? What in life is significant to you?
Our values can be personal to ourselves or important to our family, religion or culture. Some things that we care about can be easy to work out. You might value your friends, family or the things you own? You might value the environment, animals, even what you eat. Other are not always easy to identify but we all have them and they can determine our choices. Some examples are:
Our values can be personal to ourselves or important to our family, religion or culture. Some things that we care about can be easy to work out. You might value your friends, family or the things you own? You might value the environment, animals, even what you eat. Other are not always easy to identify but we all have them and they can determine our choices. Some examples are:
- Moral Values - integrity, honesty, bravery
- Work values - hard work, loyalty, positive attitude
- Monetary value - watch, clothing or item of jewellery
- Cultural values - family traditions
Discovering your Career Values
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We all have career values and discovering them is important to having a succcessful and happy career. Discovering your career values can help you work out what is important to you about:
- The type of work you do
- The kind of job you want to have
- Inspire you or motivate you in work
- Give you meaning, purpose and pleasure in your job
Career Values Test
Career values can connect to career choices and career planning. Edgar Schein looked at 8 anchor's that identified how people saw their work against their personal values. We've created this simple quiz that explores 12 popular career values. You could start here and see what ideas this generates and if this sits with your own career planning goals.
