Values

Values are the principles or beliefs you have with you all the time. It is something important and hardly change over time. And so, it affects how you make decisions in life too, including your career decision.

Work-life balance is a good example. Different people have different views when it comes to interpreting the balancing of work and life. Your manager might thinks that messaging you at the middle of the night is fine since you are given a company phone, and that is its interpretation of work life balance.

So do values change? Yes, when the environment changes or a tragedy happened. For example, many new fathers and mothers becomes more family oriented after they welcome their first baby and so decided to spend more time at home and less focus at work.

Do not underestimate the importance of values. As life goes on, there are situations that will challenge the values will hold. Sometimes it comes with a price to safeguard our values, and sometimes we let go and change. C'est la vie.

Prioritizing Values

O*Net Online matches thousands of jobs with 6 values, including achievement, independence, recognition, relationships, support and working conditions.

You may visit the website and prioritize the six values to see which are the jobs that matches your value priorities. List down your top three priorities.

Link to ONet Work Values

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