Category: Career Development

Career Development

5 minutes to determine clear career values

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I recently attended a career values workshop and would like to share a technique I learnt to quickly determine your career values and assess whether you are happy in your current work.

Let’s get straight into it, the steps are:

  1. List 4-6 things that are important to you in terms of career.
  2. Remember a time where you felt on top of your game and really satisfied at work. What 2 feelings did you have at this time? Add these to the list
  3. Go through your list and remove any values that you think are duplicates (does it feel like they mean the same thing?)
  4. Rank your list, with the highest priority value being #1
  5. Assess how you feel in your current workplace for each value, giving each a score from 0 to 10, with 10 being the best possible score
My June 2019 value, as you can see from this graph my value scores aren’t very high!

The trick is to think of your values quickly and go with your intuition or ‘gut feel’ when ranking your values.

This radar graph was created using R-programming and the tutorial here

If you’ve scored some of your highest priority values with low ratings, ask yourself,

“In order to go from a X to a Y what would need to change in my current work situation?”

“What specific requests can I make to ensure there values are met?”

Career values can be both extrinsic or intrinsic in the context of your career and life. Your values will probably change as you go through different life stages and it is useful to review them regularly to assess whether you are content with your work or if something needs to change.

Career Development, Interviews

Have you ever thought about YOUR career values?

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There’s so much pressure to get your first job out of university. You have a wishlist of what you want but then you also want to land a job. With more and more students graduating and a tough job market, it’s much easier said than done. It’s always a good idea to think about who you are and whether the particular job or career path suits you. Often you don’t know if you like or dislike something until you try, but here are some key things you should consider when investigating your career options:

  1. Personality type
  2. Interests
  3. Aptitudes
  4. Values

Today’s post will focus on career values and give you an idea of what things might spark career satisfaction for YOU. Career values fall into 3 main categories; Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Lifestyle values.

Intrinsic values (what you put into work)

  • Achievement
  • Independence
  • Relationships
  • Support
  • Helping others
  • Collaboration
  • Helping society
  • Utilizing your skills and background
  • Creativity
  • Variety
  • Being challenge
  • Taking risks
  • Being an expert

Extrinsic values (what you get out of work)

  • Flexibility
  • Time off
  • Travelling
  • Reward(financial compensation, recognition, leadership)
  • Prestige
  • Working conditions
  • Autonomy (worker/entrepreneur)
  • Influence
  • Respect
  • Work environment

Lifestyle values (where you want to live, how to spend your leisure time)

  • Leisure
  • Job security
  • Ability to support your hobbies, mortgage

What values are important to you? Send me a message at earlycareerme@gmail.com!

We’ll explore how to determine which career values are most important to you in future posts.