Step 1
Pick values
Career values tool
Turn personality insight into clearer career tradeoffs.
Career values explain why a role can match your skills and still feel wrong. Use this tool to compare what you need from work before you treat a title, salary, or company name as the whole answer.
Step 2
Score fit
Step 3
Choose an experiment
Values to compare
Start with the work values that most often change fit.
Autonomy
You need enough ownership to use judgment without constant overcontrol.
Stability
You need dependable expectations, calmer risk, and trust that the system will hold.
Growth
You need challenge, stronger capability, and a visible path toward more useful work.
Meaning
You need the work to connect to a mission, value, or people impact you can respect.
Leverage
You need evidence that better thinking and better effort can change the outcome.
Trust
You need a culture where communication, leadership, and team norms feel reliable enough.
Interactive worksheet
Score how well your current or target role supports these values.
Use the sliders as a quick decision aid. A low score is not proof that you should leave, but it does show which tradeoff needs a clearer experiment or a better question.
Mixed value fit
Some important values are supported, but the role may still ask you to pay a hidden cost. Look for the lowest two values before making a bigger move.
Score: 18 / 30
Watch first: Autonomy and Stability.
Value tradeoff map
Values become useful when you compare the tradeoff underneath them.
Autonomy vs stability
Tension
More ownership can also mean more ambiguity, risk, or self-management.
Useful question
Do I want freedom to decide, or do I mostly want calmer expectations right now?
Growth vs recovery
Tension
A challenging role can build capability while also shrinking the space needed to recover.
Useful question
Is this stretch building durable skill, or am I using growth language to justify depletion?
Meaning vs leverage
Tension
Meaningful work can still feel frustrating if effort does not change outcomes.
Useful question
Can I see how better work changes something real, or only why the mission sounds important?
Trust vs visibility
Tension
A visible role may create opportunity, but trust determines whether visibility feels safe enough.
Useful question
Does more exposure help me contribute, or does it mainly increase performance pressure?
Mini worksheet
Use this before a career change, promotion, or role decision.
- 1Pick your top three values from the list and write why each one matters in real work, not in theory.
- 2Score your current or target role from 1 to 5 for each selected value.
- 3Mark any value under 3 as a fit risk, especially if it has appeared across more than one job.
- 4Choose one small experiment before making a major decision: ask for more autonomy, clarify growth, reduce ambiguity, or test a better communication rhythm.
When to go deeper
If a value keeps scoring low, treat it as real signal.
A low value score does not always mean you should leave a role. It does mean the role is asking you to pay a cost. The paid report helps connect that cost to work style, stress, communication, and better next-step questions.
FAQ
What is a career values tool?
It is a structured way to identify which work conditions matter most to you, such as autonomy, stability, meaning, growth, trust, or impact.
How does this connect to personality fit?
Personality helps explain how you tend to work. Career values clarify what kind of environment and tradeoffs you can sustain.
Does this replace the TypeCompass test?
No. The tool is a decision layer. The test gives a likely pattern, while the values tool helps you apply that pattern to a real role or career move.