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Introduction
Understanding your values, knowing your strengths, skills and interests is key to
helping plan your career within United. It will help you to determine whether your
current job is the right fit, or maybe you want to look for other positions within the
Company which might better fit your values, skills, and interests.
In this section you will have an opportunity to assess your values and skills by
completing the following activities:
The tool below will help you identify the things that motivate you in the work
environment. Use this tool in your job search to identify the types of things you
are looking for from your potential employer.
• First, review the list of values below, and using a scale from 1-4 (1 for
extremely important 4 for not important), to determine which values match
with your own.
___ 1. Help Others: Be involved in helping other people in a direct way, whether
individually or in small groups.
___ 2. Public Contact: Have a lot of day-to-day contact with people.
___ 3. Work With Others: Have close working relationships with a group; work as a
team toward common goals.
___ 4. Friendships: Develop close personal relationships with people resulting from
work activities.
___ 5. Competition: Engage in activities that pit my abilities against others where
there are clear win and lose outcomes.
___ 6. Make Decisions: Have the power to decide courses of action, policies, etc.
___ 7. Work Under Pressure: Work in situations where time pressure is prevalent
and/or the quality of my work is judged critically by supervisors, customers, or
others.
___ 8. Influence People: Be in a position to change attitudes or opinions of other
people.
___ 9. Work Alone: Do projects by myself, without a significant amount of contact
with others.
___ 10. Knowledge: Engage in the pursuit of knowledge, truth, and understanding.
___ 12. Creativity: Engage in creative work; create new ideas, programs,
organizational structures, or anything else, without following a format
previously developed by others.
___ 13. Aesthetics: Be involved in studying or appreciating the beauty of things, ideas,
etc.
___ 14. Supervision: Have a job in which I am directly responsible for the work done
by others.
___ 15. Change and Variety: Have work responsibilities that change in content and
setting.
___ 16. Precision Work: Work in situations where there is very little tolerance for error.
___ 17. Stability: Have a work routine and job duties that are largely predictable and
not likely to change over a long period of time.
___ 18. Security: Be assured of keeping my job, insurance, benefits, and reasonable
financial reward.
___ 19. Fast Pace: Work in circumstances where there is a high pace of activity; work
must be done rapidly.
___ 20. Recognition: Be recognized for the quality of my work in some visible or public
way.
___ 21. Adventure: Have work duties that involve frequent risk-taking.
___ 22. Profit, Gain: Have a strong likelihood of accumulating large amounts of
money.
___ 23. Independence: Be able to determine the nature of my work without significant
direction from others; not have to do what others tell me to.
___ 24. Moral Fulfillment: Feel that my work is contributing significantly to a set of
moral standards, which I feel are very important.
___ 25. Flexible Schedule: Have work responsibilities, which I can work at according
to my own time schedule; no specific working hours required.
___ 26. Location: Be able to work in the geographic area of my choice.
___ 28. Travel: Have a job that influences my ability or desire to travel.
___ 29. Free Time: Work the kind of schedule that allows me to pursue other personal
activities.
___ 30. Advancement/Promotability: Have access to opportunities for advancement
and promotion.
___ 31. Self-Development: Have opportunities to advance my skills and abilities.
Values
Next, rank these professional values according their priority to you. This list will
indicate which values have to be met by an employer in order for you to feel
satisfied and motivated in your job or career.
Skills Assessment
Identifying what skills you possess will help you identify what types of jobs best
suit you. Use the following tool to assess your preferred skills and to what level
you feel confident in performing them.
• First, read through the list of skills, and using a scale from 1-4 (1 for most
preferred and 4 for least preferred), rate each skill according to how they
relate to your work environment.
• After you have rated each of the skills, now identify which of the skills you
are proficient at and have demonstrated in your previous employment
experience. Highlight the skills by using a highlighter or by circling the
skills you feel you can demonstrate proficiently.
• Finally, review the list and identify which of preferred skills you rated a 1 or
2 and are also highlighted as skills you demonstrate proficiently.
After you have completed the assessment you will be able to identify those skills
you want to use more often in your work environment. They are the things you
enjoy doing and are skilled in. Finding a job that requires these skills will make
your job a more pleasant experience.
Most Least
Skill Preferred 2 3 Preferred
1 4
Activate
Administer
Analyze
Appraise
Communicate
Conceptualize
Conduct
Contract
Convince
Coordinate
Counsel
Critique
Delegate
Design
Designate
Develop
Direct
Distribute
Devise
Draw
Educate
Employ
Encourage
Estimate
Evaluate
Execute
Explore
Motivations Assessment
Use the following tool to assess what is important to you, what you value and
what you need.
• Read through each of the statements under the category and rate yourself
as thoughtfully as you can. For example, if the statement is "I would like to
have my work seen and admired by others," make it very close to "yes" if
respect and recognition from others are very meaningful to you. Mark it
close to "no" if your own approval of what you do provides you sufficient
satisfaction.
• Add up the scores from each of the statements under each category and
total them.
IX. Moral Values (Behaving in a way consistent with some moral code)
Yes No
I would feel ashamed if I failed to use what I have
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
learned.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I believe that work builds character.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 If a person doesn't work hard, s/he is probably lazy.
It is important to do work that helps make a better
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
world.
Everyone should work, to give back to society all s/he
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
takes.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Service gives me pleasure.
Total: _____
Yes No
I want to test myself on the job to confirm my sense of
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
who I am.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I would really grow if I got into the right work.
A lot of my natural talent is wasted if I don't have a
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
meaningful job.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Being able to express myself is important to me.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I want the opportunity to try out some of my own ideas.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I want to grow as a person and develop my abilities.
Total: _____
XII. Social Welfare (Doing something that has meaning for others, working for
society or another person's benefit)
Yes No
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I need the feeling of helping someone directly.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I would be happiest working in a service organization.
I would like to do a good and useful job anywhere I am
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
needed.
I want to use my energies and abilities to help make
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
the world a better place to live in.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I like to help others, to be and feel useful.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Looking out for other's welfare is important to me.
Total: _____
Yes No
I want a career that would permit me to be involved in
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 different activities of the business or professional
world.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I welcome changing activities and changing roles.
I enjoy a variety of challenges rather than just a single
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
area of concentration.
I will need more stimulation and variety than I would
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
get sitting at a desk all day.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I dislike routine activities and thrive on variety.
I don't like to spend too much time on the same type of
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
activity.
Total: _____
After you have totaled each of the 13 groups, fill in the 6 with the highest scores.
Motivation #1 ____________________________________________________
Motivation #2 ____________________________________________________
Motivation #3 ____________________________________________________
Motivation #4 ____________________________________________________
Motivation #5 ____________________________________________________
Motivation #6 ____________________________________________________
To help you sharpen your focus on who you are, work through this checklist of
personal characteristics. Your strengths are important to know about yourself, but
your weaknesses matter too. Knowing your weak spots will help steer you away
from certain career activities or fields, or may suggest areas which you wish to
change by education, experiences or some kind of "restyling" of yourself.
• As you respond to the list, try to recognize all the qualities you possess --
irrespective of whether they have been expressed until now.
• First, read each word and underline the ones that describe you as you are
now.
• Next, look back over the list and place a check to the left of the words that
are most highly descriptive of you. Check any that you missed at your first
evaluation. Often, people fail to identify their strengths adequately.
• As a final check, ask someone whose opinions you value to read through
the list and check off the strengths that they see in you.
Personality Strengths
Spontaneous Unaffected
Spunky Unassuming
Steady Understanding
Strong Unexcitable
Sympathetic Uninhibited
Tactful Verbal
Teachable Versatile
Tenacious Warm
Thorough Wholesome
Tolerant Wise
Tough Witty
Trustworthy
Using the assessments in this section, summarize the information about yourself as a
way of identifying your career fit.
6. From this information, I can conclude that I am most interested in working with
People _______, Data _______, Things _______, or Ideas _______.
(Check all that apply)
Resources
Websites
Here are examples of Internet sites that offer additional resources for this topic.
Career Assessment:
www.nycareerzone.org/graphic/assessment/index.jsp
Books
What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-
Changers (2001 Edition) by Richard Nelson Bolles
Do What You Are: Discover the perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of
Personality Type by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
Dare to Change Your Job and Your Life by Carole Kancier, PhD.
Career Change: Everything You Need to Know to Meet New Challenges and Take
Control of Your Career
The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for Lifetime of Satisfaction and
Success by Nicholas Lore