1. © 2007 Richard L. Knowdell. All rights reserved
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2. Please limit the “Always Valued” category to eight cards.
NEVER
VALUED
SELDOM
SOMETIMES
OFTEN
ALWAYS
Directions
Place the five category cards with black backgrounds at the top of your work space.
Sort the entire deck of Career Values cards into five categories according to how important each value is to you at this moment.
Please limit the “Always Valued” category to eight cards.
This should take you about seven minutes.

3. NEVER
VALUED
SELDOM
SOMETIMES
OFTEN
ALWAYS

4. NEVER VALUED SELDOM SOMETIMES OFTEN ALWAYS
SUMMARY SHEET OF PRIORITIZED VALUES

5. CAREER OPTIONS WORKSHEET

6. CAREER OPTIONS WORKSHEET
Current Job – Ajax inc.
Mechanical Engineer
Colloins inc.
Mechanical Engineer
Sales
Engineer
Marketing
Specialist
Engineering
Manager
Consulting
Engineer
WORK-LIFE BALANCE
WORK ALONE
CHANGE AND VARIETY
EXCITMENT
PRECISION WORK
EXERCISE COMPETENCE
CHALLENGING PROBLEMS
INDEPENDENCE 3 ? -1 2 14 13 10 12 17

7. Questions
How well do your seven or eight highest career values fit each of the career options that are available?
How similar are your seven or eight highest career values to the ‘corporate values’ of your current or planned organization?
How similar are your seven or eight highest career values to those of your manager?
How similar are your career values to those of your spouse or a person close to you?