How to Assess Your Interests, Skills and Values

Take vocational tests administered by a qualified career counselor
Complete self assessment exercises provided in many popular career guidebooks
Ask people to know you well what they think your interests, strengths, and values are
Think about what made you happy and what you did particularly well in past jobs, internships, volunteer experiences or class projects
To assess skills, try to remember looking back through past performance reviews to see what your past or current supervisors and peers have commended you for.
Simply make a list of top ten things you like, do well, and consider to be important.

How to Assess Work Progress

Do I have greater scope of responsibility?
Do I have brighter boss and more intelligent colleagues?
Do I spend less hour for similar work I did last year?
Do I get wider knowledge and skills?
Do I dare to say more NO to my superior?
Do I receive more salary and benefits rather than I did last year?
Do I have new colleagues, new challenges, new expectations and new ways of dealing with such unpredictable problems?
Do I encounter more surprising events in the last six month?
Do I tend to work or smarter lately?
Do I add more to the list of business travelling at home and overseas?
Do I get more clients and receive more complaints in a more complicated manner?
Do I exercise more influence and have more impact on what I am doing to more people?