What is Career Anchor?
It is a career-related concept studied by American psychologist Edgar Henry Schein. It is often used as a assessment tool for individuals to determine their career aptitude, and is also used for in-house training and counseling by job change agents.
This assessment tool allows you to determine which of the eight types of career anchors you belong to by answering 40 questions.
What is your career anchor?
"Self-analysis" is necessary for success in finding a job or changing jobs.
Whether you are looking for a new job or a new graduate, it is important to reevaluate what you want to do and what you are good at.
What you want to do and what you are good at are not necessarily the same thing, and it is a shortcut to getting good results if you understand and minimize the discrepancies between what you want to do and what companies are looking for.
However, it is difficult for anyone to look at themselves from a third-party perspective. This Career Anchor Assessment can be one of the tools for self-analysis.
Career Anchor is...
Career anchor is a “basic guideline” for individuals (especially working adults) when making career choices and serves as a direction for their careers. It can also be said to be “the values that one does not want to sacrifice,” “what is most important to one,” and “something that remains constant in one's inner self,” even if one's surroundings change.
An anchor is the anchor of a ship. The process begins by analyzing what is the foundation of one's identity and anchor.
8 Types of Career Anchors
This Career Anchor Assessment is divided into the following eight types.
- TF: Technical / Functional Competence
- GM: General Managerial Competence
- AU: Autonomy / Independence
- SE: Security / Stability
- EC: Entrepreneurial Creativity
- SV: Service / Dedication to a Course
- CH: Pure Challenge
- LS: Lifestyle
Please see each page for more information.
Also, for a detailed explanation of career anchors, click here.