Work Preferences and Values

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Work preferences

 Now we want to look at work preferences.  What are the things that will make it pleasant for you to go to work?  What kinds of things are necessary for you to be happy in your job, both personally and professionally.


First you will take an inventory to see what working conditions are most important to you.  Then you will come back to this site for instructions to getting to another site to learn more about what your preference mean in terms of types of careers that fit your lifestyle and personality.


First go to:
http://www.careerperfect.com/content/career-planning-work-preference-inventory/

Welcome back!  Wasn't that interesting?  See, you have more control over your life than you thought.  By learning more about what you like and don't like, what you see as important, what environment you work best in, you are able to make educated decisions about the direction of your future.
 

What are work values?

Throughout your life you acquire a set of values - beliefs and ideas that are important to you.  For example, you may believe that one should always be honest or that one must always be a loyal friend.  You live your life according to this set of values.  In order to have a happy, successful and fulfilling life, you must act upon your values, both your in personal life and at work.  Taking your values into account when you choose a career could be the most important factor that determines whether you will or won't be satisfied with that aspect of your life.


Clarifying your work values, that set of values that relates to your career, is essential.  Your work values are both intrinsic (inside of you), relating to the actual task involved in practicing a performing a particular job, and extrinsic (outside of you), relating to the by-products of an occupation.  An intrinsic value might be how you feel helping others through your job, while an example of extrinsic value might be earning a lot of money.


Let's take a look at your work values.  Click on link below.   Put you name in the box in the upper left hand corner.  Take inventory then click on summary.  Complete the accompanying worksheet.  When finished come back to this site.

http://people.usd.edu/~bwjames/tut/time/workinv.html