Day 5: Core Values

Today you will learn how to identify your core values and how those may be used in your career.

Summary

What are Values?

Values are collective meanings that society has agreed upon and guide what we pay attention to as a collective.

• Certain occurrences in life happen over and over again creating patterns that we as humans assign meaning to.
• The more that people begin to share these patterns with one another, this meaning that we've assigned to the situation, it starts to become a collective meaning.

Why are Value Important to the Job Search?

Each one of the companies that you're looking at has certain values that the company was built upon. You as an individual also have a certain set of values.

• When we apply to jobs, we're hoping that those two value sets actually match.

Being clear on your personal core values as you begin your job search will:

• Make it easier for you to filter companies, roles, and teams that you'll thrive in.
• Help you to make decisions, to analyze the opportunities at any stage in the hiring process.
• Give you a deeper understanding of your true self.

How to Take a Self Inventory of Core Values

In the activity below you will take the following steps:

• Creating a list
• Ranking each value
• Defining each value
• Give each value an action
• Sharing your values with others

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Activity

Download today's worksheet and complete the exercises inside of the worksheet.

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Skill Lesson Mastered

Demonstrate mastery of the knowledge and skills presented in this lesson by applying it to the above activity. If, and only if, you have a full understanding and have mastered the knowledge and skills presented in this lesson, select the next lesson in the navigation.