Work values guide
What Are Work Values? The Six Needs That Shape Career Fit
Understand the six values, realistic trade-offs, and why the same occupation can feel different across workplaces.
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Work Values Test
What does work need to give you for it to feel worthwhile? Discover your six-value hierarchy and see where your current role may be falling short.
18 to 22 minutes63 scored responses6 written reflections
Established vocational framework
Six different things work can provide.
Achievement, Independence, Recognition, Relationships, Support, and Working Conditions describe distinct sources of work satisfaction. None is inherently better, and most real jobs require choices between them.
Psychdom wrote original questions for these constructs. This is not an official O*NET assessment and has not yet undergone real-user psychometric validation.
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Work Values vs Career Interests: Why You Need Both
Separate the activities that attract you from the rewards and conditions you need while doing them.
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Work Values Mismatch: Is It Your Career or Your Workplace?
Locate whether dissatisfaction sits in the occupation, role, employer, manager, conditions, or exhaustion.
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Work Values & Career Fit Report
For $14.95 USD, turn your profile into a private, approximately 22-page report that examines all six values, current gaps, competing priorities, written evidence, likely sources of friction, job-evaluation criteria, employer questions, and practical career experiments.
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Work values questions
What does the Work Values Test measure?
It measures Achievement, Independence, Recognition, Relationships, Support, and Working Conditions, the six-value structure used in established Theory of Work Adjustment and O*NET work-values research.
Is this the official O*NET Work Importance Locator?
No. The Work Importance Locator was retired in 2024. Psychdom uses original questions informed by the established constructs and does not reproduce or modify the O*NET assessment.
Why does the test make me choose between good things?
Jobs involve trade-offs. Fifteen balanced forced choices help distinguish priorities when a person rates many desirable conditions as important.
What is a values-fulfillment gap?
It is the difference between how important a value is and how well your current or most recent work supplies it. A gap is evidence to investigate, not proof that you must change careers.
How is the personalized report created?
Deterministic scoring establishes the six values, hierarchy, trade-offs, fulfillment, and gaps. Generated analysis interprets those fixed results alongside your written examples without changing them or inventing facts.
Can an employer use this test to select staff?
No. It is for education, reflection, and career exploration. It is not validated for hiring, promotion, or termination decisions.