This unique and powerful career values assessment can help individuals who are:
Changing careers
Choosing first careers
Assessing potential work or career opportunities
Looking to make changes in their current work
Preparing for the job search
Most values assessment focus primarily on what is most important to someone no doubt an important consideration, but not enough on its own.For work to be satisfying, you need to get what you want and avoid what you dont want!
The Kerwin Values Survey (KVS) identifies what you must have in your work, would like to have in your work, and also what you most want to avoid in your work. These three levels of analysis helps individuals more accurately evaluate their work and career alternatives, and make better and more informed decisions as a result.
What else makes the KVS different from other values tools?
Each KVS includes the 12 page KVS assessment booklet, plus 95 values cards organized into five groups:
Purpose why you work
Process how you do your work
People the people you work with
Payback what you get back from your work
Place where you work
Blank values cards, allowing additional values to be written in, resulting in more individualized, useful, and meaningful career values results.
Sorting language that reflects the language that people reallyuse when talking about career values: what they must have, would like to have, and want to avoid in their work.
The valuable Career Values Congruence Worksheet for assessing the congruence of work or career options with essential career values.
Instructions and tips for evaluating career values congruence, and for actively using career values in the ongoing career development process!