What Are Your Personal Core Values?

Use this checklist to find out

When you are exploring your personal core values, it is not always easy to pin them down.

• Where do you begin?
• How do you identify them?

You may be the kind of person who goes blank when you are put on the spot with a tricky question!

If that is the case, don't worry, help is at hand. Why not try this a simple checklist to get you thinking?

What I have created below is an inventory of core values that you can just read through and see which values ring true for you.

Just use ticks and crosses to mark off values or, if you prefer, use a rating to help you work out which are more important.

It can be interesting to highlight the values that feel really ‘wrong’ for you too. This can help you understand why certain situations feel uncomfortable and draining for you.

Your work and career can often be a typical example of a situation where your values are not being honoured. Maybe this is why you are thinking of a career change?

Remember that no list can ever be complete. There may be some additional personal values that are unique to you, so don’t be limited by the list. Just add anything else that just feels right.

I hope this checklist of personal core values will give you some food for thought and help you on the road to finding the career change idea that will be right for you.

Now go back to the core values exercises to review what these values mean for you.

Remember to keep a note of the core work and life values you identify in your Career Change Project File.

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