Can Your Values Affect Your Career Success?
Yes. Values can influence career decisions, motivation, persistence, workplace satisfaction, relationships, and the environments in which a person performs best.
For example, someone who strongly values autonomy may struggle in a highly controlled organization even if they are technically competent. Someone who values service may feel increasingly disconnected in work that offers financial rewards but little sense of contribution.
What values add to career decisions
Values do not determine career success by themselves. They are one part of a larger career picture.
A useful career decision considers the relationship between:
values + strengths + skills + interests + environment + opportunity.
Values are particularly important because they answer a different question from skills.
Skills ask:
"What can I do?"
Values ask:
"What matters to me?"
The combination can be powerful. A person may have excellent communication skills, for example, but where they use those skills can be influenced by whether they value teaching, leadership, advocacy, entrepreneurship, service, creativity, or financial achievement.
When career choices repeatedly conflict with deeply held values, a person may experience dissatisfaction even when their performance is strong.
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