Career Value Anchors

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The purpose of this questionnaire is to stimulate your thoughts about your own areas of competence, motives, and values. This questionnaire alone will not reveal your career anchors and should be used in conjunction with other activities and assessments.
Answer the questions being honest to yourself, and work through the questions quickly.
Each question suggests a particular way that you may behave or think, answer these questions using the scale provided, as being true to you

1

I would
- be most fulfilled in my work when I have been able to use my special skills and talents
- rather leave my organisation than accept a job that would take me away from the general managerial track
- rather leave my organisation than accept a job that would reduce my autonomy and freedom
- choose a career that will allow me to feel a sense of security and stability
- start up and build my own business
- rather leave my organisation than accept an assignment that would undermine my ability to be of service to others
- like to work on problems that are almost unsolvable arther than achieving a high-level managerial position
- seek out work opportunities that minimise interference with personal or family concerns
2

I seek work that
- is in my area of expertise rather than becoming a general manager
- allows me to become a general manager in some organisation
- allows me complete autonomy and freedom
- that will give me a sense of security and stability
- is building something that is entirely the result of my own ideas and efforts
- uses my skills to make the world a better place to live and work is more important to me than achieving a high-level managerial position
- I solve seemingly unsolvable problems or won out over seemingly impossible odds
- enables me to balance my personal, family, and career requirements
3

I dream of a career where
- I am so good at what I do that my expert advice will be sought continually
- I am so fulfilled in my work when I am able to integrate and manage the efforts of others
- I am allowed the freedom to do a job my own way and on my own schedule
- I am stable and secure rather than independent or autonomous
- I am always on the lookout for ideas that would permit me to start my own enterprise
- I have a feeling of having made a real contribution to the welfare of society
- I can solve problems or win out in situations that are extremely challenging
- I would not compromise my ability to pursue personal and family concerns
4

I prefer a job where
- I do not have to accept a rotational assignment that would take me out of my area of expertise
- I am a general manager rather than becoming a senior functional manager in my current area of expertise
- I have the chance to do a job my own way, free of rules and constraints, rather than provides security
- I feel that I have complete financial and employment security
- I am creating or building something that is entirely my own product or
- I can make a real contribution to humanity and society
- my problem solving and/or competitive skills are strongly challenged
- I balance the demands of personal and professional life rather than achieving a high-level managerial position
5

I will feel successful in my career
- only if I can develop technical or functional skills to a very high level competence
- when I am in charge of a complex organisation and making decisions that affect many people
- when I am completely free to define my own tasks, schedules and procedures
- so long as I do not have to accept an assignment that would jeopardise my security in that organisation
- building my own business rather than achieving a high-level managerial position in someone else's organisation
- when I have been able to use my talents in the service of others
- only if I face and overcome very difficult challenges
- when it allows me to integrate my personal, family, and work needs

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