Take the free Values Assessment online. Discover which of 10 work values drive your choices, from Autonomy to Impact. 30 questions, instant results.
The Values Assessment is JobCannon's own work-values instrument. It maps ten values that shape working life — Achievement, Autonomy, Creativity, Security, Altruism, Recognition, Relationships, Learning, Work-Life Balance and Impact — by making you choose between them instead of rating each one on its own. Each of the 30 questions puts four things people genuinely want in front of you and lets you keep only one, so what comes back is a ranking of what you trade away when you cannot have everything.
Understanding your core values is essential for making aligned career and life decisions. When your work matches your values, you experience greater satisfaction, motivation, and meaning. When there's a mismatch, you feel drained and unfulfilled, regardless of salary or status. JobCannon's 30-question assessment maps your personal value hierarchy and shows how it connects to career choices, workplace culture fit, and life priorities.
Because every question forces a choice, the revealing part of your result is not which values you endorse — nearly everyone endorses all ten — but which ones you let go to keep the others. Achievement and Work-Life Balance are set against each other in 28 of the 30 questions, so your ranking on those two is decided many times over. Creativity and Security compete in 13 questions, Altruism and Recognition in 11, Autonomy and Security in 9. Where you land is the sum of thirty small refusals rather than a single declaration, which is why the profile often disagrees with the values people say they hold.
Your top 3 core values and what they mean for your life direction
Which workplace cultures and company types align with your values
Where your values may conflict and how to navigate those tensions
Career paths that naturally fulfill your deepest motivations
The trade-offs you made, which values you gave up to protect your top three
A full ranking across all 10 work values, not only your top three
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Take the free Values Assessment online. Discover which of 10 work values drive your choices, from Autonomy to Impact. 30 questions, instant results.
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Ten values that shape working life: Achievement, Autonomy, Creativity, Security, Altruism, Recognition, Relationships, Learning, Work-Life Balance and Impact. It never asks you to rate a value on its own, because almost everyone rates all ten highly. Instead it makes you choose between them 30 times, and the ranking falls out of those choices.
Achievement, the drive to excel and hit measurable targets. Autonomy, freedom to decide how, when and where you work. Creativity, the need to build, design and express original ideas. Security, stability, predictability and financial safety. Altruism, helping others and making an impact beyond your paycheck. Recognition, being seen and credited for your contributions. Relationships, deep connections with colleagues, mentors and clients. Learning, growth, mastery and work that keeps teaching you something new. Work-Life Balance, clear boundaries between work and personal life. Impact, seeing tangible results that move the needle. Most people rank several highly and a few low, the pattern is what matters, not any single value.
No. This is JobCannon's own work-values assessment, built around the ten values that surface in career decisions. Shalom Schwartz's Theory of Basic Human Values measures a different ten — Self-Direction, Stimulation, Hedonism, Achievement, Power, Security, Conformity, Tradition, Benevolence and Universalism — and we run that as a separate test, the Schwartz Values Test (PVQ-21). If you came for Schwartz specifically, take that one. If you want your values framed around work and career, stay here.
Research shows that value-career alignment is one of the strongest predictors of long-term job satisfaction. People who work in environments that match their core values report higher engagement, lower burnout, and greater sense of purpose.
