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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.

NEVER VALUED SELDOM SOMETIMES OFTEN ALWAYS

NEVER VALUED SELDOM SOMETIMES OFTEN ALWAYS SUMMARY SHEET OF PRIORITIZED VALUES

CAREER OPTIONS WORKSHEET

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

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?