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Career Signals, the latest work motivation assessment from Core Factors, is now available through the Core Factors Pro Account. This tool helps career coaches, talent developers, and HR professionals uncover the underlying values and motivational skills that drive sustained engagement and fulfillment in work, enabling more precise guidance toward roles and environments that align long-term.
Quick Intel
Career dissatisfaction frequently stems not from lack of skill but from misalignment between personal drivers of meaning and energy and the daily realities of a role. Traditional tools often provide broad personality insights or occupational matches but fall short on revealing what sustains engagement over time.
Career Signals bridges this gap by offering a dual lens: values that define meaningful work conditions and motivational skills that highlight energizing areas of capability. Practitioners gain structured language to explore what fuels or drains clients, moving conversations from vague exploration to actionable clarity. This supports better decision-making during career transitions, role redesign, or talent alignment initiatives.
"Career Signals is designed for the conversations practitioners are having right now," said Kris Kiler, President at Core Factors. "Clients want clarity about what matters most in their work and why certain experiences either drive or drain them. By combining values and motivational skills, we created a tool that connects insight to action. Our goal is not to label people or prescribe a single path, but to bring clarity that travels with them through change. When clients can name what gives meaning and sustains their energy, they make better decisions and remain engaged in work that fits them."
For individual coaching, Career Signals shortens the journey from uncertainty to direction by surfacing stable reference points for evaluating opportunities. In organizational settings, it scales into talent mobility and development programs, helping align people with roles that match both motivation and business needs—reducing turnover risk and boosting sustained performance.
When paired with Career Path, the assessments create a comprehensive view: Career Path identifies "what kind of work fits," while Career Signals reveals "what will keep you engaged in that work long-term." Integration with other Core Factors tools further supports holistic development across emotional intelligence, psychological type, social interaction styles, and work fit.
Practitioners can administer Career Signals immediately through a Pro Account, with results ready for feedback sessions, workshops, or ongoing programs. No specialized training is needed, making it accessible for immediate use in career guidance, leadership development, or internal mobility efforts.
About Core Factors
Core Factors is a people-development platform for practitioners. Coaches, consultants, and HR professionals use Core Factors to administer assessments, deliver results through PDF reports and a participant experience, reinforce development after feedback conversations, and document outcomes through participant feedback and NPS reporting. Core Factors assessments support work across leadership development, team effectiveness, and work and fit. EQ Accelerator helps practitioners guide emotional intelligence development with a clear focus on what matters most right now. Type Discovery and Type Elements support self-awareness and practical development conversations grounded in psychological type. Social Dynamics provides a shared language for social interaction styles and their applications across communication, collaboration, and conflict. Career Path maps work preferences and avoidances using Occupational Activity Groupings and Global Interest Areas. Career Signals clarifies career values and motivational skills to support clarity, sustainability, and direction.
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