Career motivations

Want to know what motivates you?

Find out what motivates you

Values are the key to understanding people's energy and motivation. Exploring your values can help you understand your behaviour. 

The Values-based Indicator of Motivation has been developed to provide a more comprehensive map of people's values and motivations that reflect what is important in the 21st Century.

The questionnaire addresses the following areas:

  • Status and prestige
  • Career progression
  • Personal growth
  • Influencing and providing direction
  • Need for change
  • Independence
  • Rationality
  • Spirituality
  • Culture
  • Intellectual and conceptual
  • Creativity
  • Tradition
  • Security
  • Sense of belonging
  • Intimacy
  • Trust
  • Altruism
  • Health
  • Hedonism
  • Social

To access the tests, login to UDo  - and click on the 'Careers' tab and then on  'psychometric tests'.

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