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Career Values & Purpose Clarity

A ranked set of work values in your own words, a purpose statement you keep revising, a filter for every opportunity, and the routines that keep your choices about roles and employers true to what matters.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Career Values & Purpose Clarity, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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🧭 Career Growth

Career Values & Purpose Clarity

Clarifying what you value in work, such as autonomy, impact, money or mastery, to guide choices about roles and employers.

  1. Work values card sort and top five
  2. Timeline of peak and low moments at work
  3. Two-week energy audit of your working days
  4. Non-negotiables and deal-breakers list
  5. Trade-off ranking of autonomy, impact, money and mastery
  6. Your enough number for pay and security
  7. First draft of a personal purpose statement
  8. Asking five people when you seem most alive at work
  9. Defining each top value in your own words
  10. Scoring your current role against your values
  11. Friday values scorecard
  12. Monthly energy and meaning review
  13. Values filter card for opportunities
  14. Quarterly purpose statement revision
  15. Saying no to work that clashes with your values
  16. Sunday reflective note on the working week
  17. Values item on your one-to-one agenda
  18. Yearly re-sort of your work values
  19. Calendar colour-coding by value
  20. Main frameworks for work values and motivation
  21. Career anchors self-assessment
  22. Reading list on meaning and work
  23. Ikigai as a planning tool and its limits
  24. Telling values, strengths and interests apart
  25. Interest inventory and Holland codes
  26. Spotting values borrowed from family and culture
  27. Working with tensions between competing values
  28. Checking an employer's real values before applying
  29. Interview questions that reveal culture and values
  30. Deciding whether to stay in a role that clashes with your values
  31. Three possible lives exercise
  32. Conversations with people who live a value you want
  33. Money versus meaning decision
  34. Personal ethical lines at work
  35. Meeting an unmet value outside your job
  36. Solo values day away from work
  37. Purpose conversation with your partner or family
  38. Values reset after a major life event
  39. Letter from your older self about your working life
  40. Values brief before your next job search
  41. Student values clarity before choosing a course
  42. Choosing a first job by values as a graduate
  43. Rethinking work values after becoming a parent
  44. Mid-career values check when success feels hollow
  45. Keeping values in view when money is tight
  46. Values when family expectations point elsewhere
  47. Values peer circle with two or three others
  48. Helping your team surface their work values
  49. Running a values workshop for students or young people
  50. Legacy and purpose across a whole working life

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Work values card sort and top five

Most people can name a dozen things they want from work, but choices only get easier once those wants are ranked. Sorting a deck of about forty value words into always, often, sometimes and rarely, then forcing the top pile down to five, gives you a short list concrete enough to test a job against.

First tasks

  • Write or print forty work value words on small cards
  • Sort the cards into always, often, sometimes and rarely piles
  • Cut the always pile down to five and rank them
  • Record the ranked five with today's date in your career notes

Timeline of peak and low moments at work

What you value shows up most clearly in the moments you remember, not in the words you would choose for a profile. Plotting your ten highest and ten lowest points across jobs, study, volunteering and projects, then asking what each one gave or took away, turns memory into evidence about what you need.

First tasks

  • List the ten best moments you can remember from work or study
  • List the ten worst moments, with the year for each
  • Tag each moment with the value it met or broke
  • Compare the tags with your top five from the card sort

Two-week energy audit of your working days

What drains or feeds you during an ordinary week is the most honest signal of fit, and it is easy to miss because it is so familiar. Rating each block of your working day for energy and meaning for ten working days shows which tasks, people and settings match your values and which quietly fight them.

First tasks

  • Set up a simple sheet with time blocks and two rating columns
  • Rate each block for energy and meaning before you finish each day
  • Pull out the five best and five worst activities after ten days
  • Work out what share of your week sits in the top ratings

Make it yours.

Install Career Values & Purpose Clarity, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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