Career Anchor Test:
The purpose of this questionnaire is to stimulate the thoughts about areas of competence, motives, and values. This questionnaire alone will not reveal career anchors because it is too easy to bias answers. However, it will activate thinking and prepare for the discussion with coach.
Based on my career anchor test, my competencies are:
5) Lifestyle:
These people want and need to integrate their
personal and family concerns into their career. They look for an
integration of work/play/social life. People who anchor in lifestyle also value their
autonomy and have in many cases also a high concern for independence.
4) Entrepreneurial Creativity, Security/Stability, Service dedication
to a cause:
- Entrepreneurial Creativity:
This
anchor is characterized by the overarching need to build or create something
that is entirely your own product. People with this anchor find that none
of the other anchors completely matches with their key motives and values,
but that there is a degree of overlap with several of the anchors, ie. Autonomy,
managerial competency, freedom to exercise special talents, and a desire to build wealth for security.
- Security/Stability:
People
anchored in security tend to do what is required of them by their employers
in order to maintain job security, a decent income, and a stable future
in the form of a good retirement program, benefits, etc. These people will,
more than others, accept the organization’s definition of their career and will have to trust the organization to
do the right thing by them.
- Service dedication to a cause:
The
people in this group feel the need not only to maintain an adequate income,
but to do something meaningful in a larger context. They are actively service
oriented and interested in careers that provide solutions in areas such as
product safety, overpopulation, discrepancy between rich and poor and the environment.
3) Technical Function:
The
primary concern in this area is the actual technical or functional content of the
work being done. The self-image of people in this group is tied up with their
feeling of competence in the particular area they are in. They are therefore
not interested in management per se, though they will accept management
responsibility within their technical or functional area of
expertise.
But it is the area of work that really turns them on and career growth means continued advancement within that
work area only.
2) Autonomy/Freedom, General Management Competence:
- Autonomy/Freedom:
The
key motives for this anchor are freedom from organizational constraints in order
to pursue professional or technical/functional competency. Organizational
life is experienced as too restrictive, irrational and/or intrusive into
one’s personal life. There is a need to be on your own, setting your own pace,
schedule, lifestyle and work habits. There is little conflict about missed opportunities
for promotion and little sense of guilt or failure about not aspiring higher.
- General Management Competence:
The
anchor is a combination of three competencies: Analytical
Competence: the ability to identify, analyze and solve problems under
conditions of incomplete information and uncertainty. Interpersonal competence:
the ability to influence, supervise and lead people at all levels of the
organization toward the more effective achievement of organizational goals. Emotional competence: the capacity to be stimulated by emotional and interpersonal
crises rather than exhausted or debilitated by them, the capacity to
bear high levels of responsibility without becoming paralyzed, and the ability to exercise power without guilt
or shame.
1) Pure Challenge:
People
in this group define their careers success by overcoming impossible odds, solving the unsolvable problem,
winning out over the competitors.
Scale: 1=
least important, 5= most importance
Conclusion:
After taking career anchor test, I found my competencies and weaknesses which would affect me in my career. I hope this test will help me to get better on my weaknesses and motivate me to work on it. This test could be important to succeed in life.
Conclusion:
After taking career anchor test, I found my competencies and weaknesses which would affect me in my career. I hope this test will help me to get better on my weaknesses and motivate me to work on it. This test could be important to succeed in life.
