Your values matter. So does how you work.

A career values assessment identifies what matters most to you in a work context: autonomy, security, impact, creativity, recognition, financial reward, collaboration, and other factors that shape your sense of meaning and satisfaction at work. This is useful information. Values that conflict with a role or organization create ongoing friction regardless of how capable you are.

But values assessments have a well-known limitation: they tell you what you care about, not whether a specific role or environment will actually deliver it. Two people with identical values can thrive and struggle in the same job depending on how they work. Values alignment is necessary but not sufficient for career fit.

The missing layer is behavioral fit: how you process information, make decisions, collaborate, and what types of work sustain versus deplete you. A person who values autonomy but tends toward high collaborative engagement will struggle in a role that offers formal independence but requires constant coordination. Values and behavior work together; career fit requires both.

The Pigment Career Test uses 120 forced-choice questions to map your behavioral working patterns across 82 traits in 9 workplace domains. Every question presents two equally positive options. Because neither is a "right" answer, results reflect actual tendencies rather than what you aspire to or how you see yourself.

The behavioral map includes domains directly relevant to your stated values: your Energetic Rhythm profile maps what types of work sustain versus deplete you (closely correlated with actual fulfillment, as distinct from stated values), your collaboration and leadership patterns show whether you will actually thrive in the collaborative or autonomous environment you prefer, and your working styles show how your values translate into day-to-day behavior under real conditions.

The result is a picture that combines what you care about with how you actually work. This is more actionable than values data alone because it connects your priorities to the specific behavioral conditions that will let you live them out.

You receive a 36-page personalized report immediately after completing the assessment. The report covers your 47 derived strengths with amplification advice, your working styles and preferred work types, your Energetic Rhythm profile, rare traits where you stand out, and specific role and environment recommendations with fit explanations.

The Energetic Rhythm section is particularly relevant alongside a values assessment: it maps which types of work sustain you independent of whether you find them meaningful. Many people discover a gap between what they believe they value and what their behavior shows actually energizes them. This gap is often the root cause of dissatisfaction in roles that look like a good values match on paper.

The assessment takes approximately 18 minutes. Results are available immediately.

The Pigment Career Test is most useful for people who know what they value but are uncertain how to translate those values into a specific career direction, or who have moved into roles that looked like a good values match and found the reality disappointing.

Take this assessment if you have done values work before and want the behavioral layer that completes the picture; if you feel certain about what matters to you at work but uncertain about which specific roles will actually deliver it; or if you have taken StrengthsFinder, VIA Character Strengths, or a values inventory and want more actionable output.

If you have never articulated your work values, a values assessment is a good first step before or alongside Pigment. The two instruments answer different questions and work best together.

Values and behavioral assessments answer different parts of the career fit question. Values assessments tell you which dimensions of work are most important to you. Behavioral assessments tell you how you work and where your patterns create fit or friction.

Use them together by checking alignment: does the role that matches your values also match how you work? A job in impact-driven nonprofit work is a good values fit for someone who values mission. But if the role requires high-volume coordination and you work best with focused, independent tasks, the fit gap is behavioral, not values-based. Knowing both prevents you from confusing a values match with a full career fit.

For related assessments, see VIA Character Strengths alternatives, StrengthsFinder alternatives, and the full Career Test guide.