Title: 4 Steps To Defining Your Core Career Values For A Job Search
Headings: 4 Steps To Defining Your Core Career Values For A Job Search
4 Steps To Defining Your Core Career Values For A Job Search
My friends often asked me if I could ever be happy.
I wasn’t satisfied because I was living a reactive life, not a proactive one.
I started to see how each career accomplishment fit with my overall career trajectory.
Why PhDs Need To Identify Their Core Career Values
These values are not independent of one another.
By identifying and connecting with your values, this choice will become clear, you’ll be more focused and motivated about it, and you will have greater job satisfaction.
4 Steps To Developing And Defining Your Core Career Values
As job seekers, PhDs should also have a core career value statement.
1. Create a list of core career values.
Identify and describe a time when you were the most unhappy, inefficient, dissatisfied or unmotivated.
2. Refine your list of core career values.
Remember that your value is defined by you.
For example, “perfection” may lead into a core value of “excellence”.
3. Test your core career values.
This may have been because you were being asked to behave contrary to your values.
Do you feel as though your decisions and actions are aligned with your values?
4. Apply your core career values to your career.
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Content: This may have been because you were being asked to behave contrary to your values. Your gut reaction is trying to alert you to a value clash. A quick way to test your values is to look back at your examples in Step 1. Are you engaging your core values in these situations? Are any of your values being violated? A more thorough approach is to test your values in your everyday decision-making over several weeks. Do you feel as though your decisions and actions are aligned with your values? If not, why? You may need to revisit steps 1 and 2 to get this right. To be reminded of your values on a regular basis, create a screensaver or wallpaper for your favorite device, or stick a post-it note to your mirror or computer monitor.