Life Values Inventory

The Life Values Inventory is a free online values clarification and personal development assessment designed to help individuals identify, prioritize, and better understand the values that guide their decisions, behaviors, and life goals. Through a multi-step reflective process, participants explore how their values influence different areas of life, including work and academics, relationships, and leisure or community involvement. The assessment measures 14 positive life values and provides personalized results, interpretation, and strategies for aligning actions with personal priorities. 

The Life Values Inventory can help students gain greater self-awareness by identifying the values that contribute most to their motivation, fulfillment, resilience, and overall sense of purpose. Results can support career exploration, major selection, leadership development, and decision-making by helping students evaluate whether academic programs, employers, and career environments align with what matters most to them. The tool also encourages reflection on how values may evolve over time and provides practical strategies for intentionally expressing those values in daily life and future career planning.

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    • Years 1 - 2: Helpful tool for identifying life values in order to assist with developing academic and career opportunities in alignment with values. 

    • Years 3 - 4: Valuable for exploring identifying values to begin exploring career opportunities in alignment with values.

    • Undecided Students: Useful for serving as a tool for self-reflection and value prioritization to maintain consistency with career decision making. 

    • Guidance: Online values assessment self-guided with career advisor interpretation recommended.

    • Career & Self-Development

    • Critical Thinking

    • Self-awareness

    • Students: Identify personal values, explore influence of values in different areas of life, and help guide career decision making to ensure value alignment.

    • Faculty/Staff: Supporting students in self-reflection and values identification in 1:1 career advising and group advising/workshops.

Implementation:

  • One-on-one advising: Discuss results of assessment in career advising appointments with students of all academic years. 

  • Group advising/workshops: For discussion of results for values clarification and activities.

  • Classroom integration: As an assignment in first-year seminars and career development courses in order to discuss results through either personal reflection, group discussion, or both.