Work values

Determining your work values will help to find positions that suit you. Moreover, it will help you better explain your enthusiasm in conversations with an employer. And enthusiasm is contagious!

You can take a work value test on the Career zone. It zooms in to 14 work values that can be considered as fundamental. When you are working in an environment where you are given sufficient room for work values that you consider important, chances are there will be an increase in being successful and happy in your work.

The work values that are tested are:

• Altruism
• Variety
• Autonomy
• Self-development
• Work-life balance
• Relationships at work
• Creativity
• Assurance
• Financial reward
• Prestige
• Working Conditions
• Performance
• Structure
• Influence

Assignment:

• Take the Work Values Test
• At the end of the test you will be asked to fill in some data. You can skip this if you prefer not to. You will still get the result of the test.
• Read the report carefully so that it is clear how you should interpret the results.
• Also save your test results (pdf) in your Career Planning folder, for easy access.
   
• Log the results (high and low scoring values) in your Career Planning working document.
• View your results. Do you recognize the outcome? What stands out?
• Which of these values would you like to be part of your potential job? Which of these values would you like to be central in the organization where you preferably would like to work?