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Clarifying Your Work Values: Knowing What’s Most Important to You This document discusses the importance of identifying your work values in order to make career decisions that align with what matters most to you. It states that values underlie work choices and effective workplaces attract people who share similar core values. By discussing your values with a career counselor, you can help focus your search on environments and roles that are the best fit.

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Values PDF

Clarifying Your Work Values: Knowing What’s Most Important to You This document discusses the importance of identifying your work values in order to make career decisions that align with what matters most to you. It states that values underlie work choices and effective workplaces attract people who share similar core values. By discussing your values with a career counselor, you can help focus your search on environments and roles that are the best fit.

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Clarifying Your Work Values:

Knowing What’s Most Important to You


Values are a set of standards that determine attitudes, choices, and action. Mapping
your value priorities can help lay important groundwork for making sound career
decisions that fit your unique pattern of values, interests, and talents. Work-related
values underlie our choices about work. Some people value creativity; others place a
premium on income or contributing.
Workplaces are becoming more collaborative, and people are increasingly looking
not just for jobs, but also for organizations whose values and culture align with their
own. By the same token, the most effective organizations attract people who already
share most of their key values. Discussing your values in an appointment with a
career counselor can help you focus and choose work environments and positions
that are the best fit for you.

Underline all the values most important in your worklife for the next few years. Then
narrow down the list and circle the top ten values that are absolutely essential to express
or satisfy in your work. Prioritize those top ten and define them on the next page.

Work Content Work Setting Work Intrinsic Values


challenging flexibility Relationships integrity
leading deadline pressure teamwork status
competence surroundings trust prestige
mastery time freedom cultural identity achievement
risk security caring respect
leading edge high earnings competition responsibility
detail-oriented action-oriented cooperation power
social activism structure diversity influence
learning relaxed pace collaboration appreciation
excellence casual humor helping
focus quiet harmony belonging
creativity organized autonomy community
variety excitement recognition equality
growth pressure support independence
knowledge predictability open contributing
control location communication service
adventure public contact people contact authenticity
helping comfortable independence commitment
initiating income fun balance
honesty
other values: ___________________________________ having an impact
fairness

Career Development Center, Stanford University


Values continued

Your Top 10 Values Your definition of each value

Career Development Center, Stanford University

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