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Prioritize Your Skills, Values, and Interests

Refer back to the work you just completed on skills, values, and interests and fill out the chart below. Fill in the first block of the chart with the three skills you most want to use in your job and the level of development of each skill. Fill in the second skills box with those skills you listed as being important to you but ones you wish to use only occasionally in your work. Also include the level of development for each of these skills. Fill in the third skills box with those skills you do not currently possess but wish to develop.

Fill in the first values box with those values you indicated are of primary importance in your job. List those values that are negotiable in the second values box.
Fill in the first interests box with the three social issues, service areas, or populations with which/whom you wish to work. List up to three social issues, service areas, or populations with which/whom you would like to work occasionally.

	SKILLS	VALUES	INTERESTS
M	Skill Level of development	Primary values	Primary Interests
A	1.	1.	1.
N
D
A	2.	2.	2.
T
O
R	3.	3.	3.
Y
	Skill Level of development	Secondary values	Secondary Interests
N	1.	1.	1.
E
G
O
T	2.	2.	2.
I
A
B
L	3.	3.	3.
E
	Skills to Develop
T
O
D
E
V
E
L
O
P

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