- Paperback: 72 pages
- Publisher: Jossey Bass; Revised edition edition (8 July 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0883900300
- ISBN-13: 978-0883900307
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 21.3 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 282,804 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In many cases, people select a career for all the wrong reasons, and find their responses to the workplace are incompatible with their true values. This situation results in feelings of unrest and discontent and in lost productivity. To help people avoid these problems, the newly–revised Career Anchors is designed to help people uncover their real values and use them to make better career choices. This revised edition includes two new sections, "Major Stages of the Career" and "Career Movement, Progress, or Success." Instructions and other components have been revamped for clarification, the references have been updated, and the contents have been rearranged for more convenient usage in classes and workshops. Career Anchors can help you think through your career options and give you a clear understanding of:
∗ Your own orientations toward work
∗ Your motives
∗ Your values
∗ Your talents
The Career Anchors Instrument and Trainer′s Manual provide a systematic way of exploring how you perceive yourself, based on your own experiences. The instrument is divided into three parts?the orientations inventory, the career anchor interview, and the conceptual material. Career Anchors will help people:
∗ Define the themes and patterns dominant in your life
∗ Understand your own approach to work and a career
∗ Provide reasons for choices
∗ Take steps to fulfill your own self–image
∗ Your own orientations toward work
∗ Your motives
∗ Your values
∗ Your talents
The Career Anchors Instrument and Trainer′s Manual provide a systematic way of exploring how you perceive yourself, based on your own experiences. The instrument is divided into three parts?the orientations inventory, the career anchor interview, and the conceptual material. Career Anchors will help people:
∗ Define the themes and patterns dominant in your life
∗ Understand your own approach to work and a career
∗ Provide reasons for choices
∗ Take steps to fulfill your own self–image
About the Author
EDGAR H. SCHEIN is professor of management at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the founders of the field of organizational development, Schein has authored numerous books and consults with organizations worldwide. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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59 of 61 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a career transition consultant, I've used this workbook with individuals and groups as part of their job search campaigns. While overtly American (and initially treated with scepticism by some Brits), it has real relevance for people who's roles have been made redundant and who are taking time to find not just any job - but the RIGHT job!
Questionnaire based, Career Anchors is well-validated and highly accurate for most clients. It helps them to understand their talents, motives and values in ways which serve their self-marketing strategies. It's as relevant for self-employment as it is for a future employed role, and becomes part of the R & D each client should afford themself. What's more, its completely self-explanatory and when the questionnaire is combined with the interview, the results can be very revealing.
The interview is a bit cumbersome and somewhat repetitive and needs to be conducted with someone trustworthy, such as a significant other or, if circumstances permit, a career coach.
Achille's Heel: requires a degree of maturity to be most effective and at least a few years' work experience.
Questionnaire based, Career Anchors is well-validated and highly accurate for most clients. It helps them to understand their talents, motives and values in ways which serve their self-marketing strategies. It's as relevant for self-employment as it is for a future employed role, and becomes part of the R & D each client should afford themself. What's more, its completely self-explanatory and when the questionnaire is combined with the interview, the results can be very revealing.
The interview is a bit cumbersome and somewhat repetitive and needs to be conducted with someone trustworthy, such as a significant other or, if circumstances permit, a career coach.
Achille's Heel: requires a degree of maturity to be most effective and at least a few years' work experience.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
People bumble along from job to job, or even stay in the same job forevermore, and may not know the reasons behind this.
Career Anchors helps to identify why you've made the choices that you have. For those who feel as though they are at a crossroads the book can be quite a revelation.
I've given this 4 stars, instead of 5, as not all "career anchors" are given the same level of attention. For example, there are useful suggestions on the rewards and career paths that the 'General Manger' or 'Technical Function' would enjoy, but 'Autonomy' and 'Entrepeneurship' are not given as much analysis.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is considering a career change, or is looking for their next move. The book has probably stopped me from making the wrong one.
Career Anchors helps to identify why you've made the choices that you have. For those who feel as though they are at a crossroads the book can be quite a revelation.
I've given this 4 stars, instead of 5, as not all "career anchors" are given the same level of attention. For example, there are useful suggestions on the rewards and career paths that the 'General Manger' or 'Technical Function' would enjoy, but 'Autonomy' and 'Entrepeneurship' are not given as much analysis.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is considering a career change, or is looking for their next move. The book has probably stopped me from making the wrong one.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Finally, a ray of light!
30 Sep 2004
Format:Paperback
More than a detailed analysis of the book, this is about my experience with it.
Having taken various aptitude and interest tests, personality type tests, and career counselling, I was still without a clue as to what work would be satisfying for me. I have been told that with my broad range of aptitudes, broad knowledge, and variety of skills, that I "could do anything". I have been told that my abilities are both a "blessing and a curse" because the ones I'm not using will demand expression. So, I've had this tortured search for satisfying work. Meanwhile, I've done a bit of everything: technical writing, designing and building computer hardware and software, systems analysis, I even ran a factory for 5 years! But I've always wondered "where is this all getting me"? "Career Anchors" was recommended to me as a way to answer my question, and I got the book without expecting much.
But to my surprise and delight, I found that the author is the ONLY writer I've found who sees the most important factor in finding one's work is your own internal motivators. His point is that you do best what you have the most motivation to do. In my own words: when you get up in the morning, what is it that you look forward to? What gets you up and going? (He's not so informal.)
I found that my motivation is Pure Challenge!! Did anyone ever identify that anywhere else?! Now I understand why my "career" has been all over the map - everything I've tackled has been deemed by others as impossible - and I've enjoyed tackling and overcoming these challenges. That's been the thread and my motivator. Knowing this makes it much easier to evaluate opportunities and decide whether or not to tackle them.
This is not a difficult book - you can read it in two hours - but what is explained in it is so clear and easy to understand that I'm sure there is value to everyone. And nobody else that I know of is looking at careers this way. It is truly refreshing.
The worksheet exercises are comprehensive, and if you do them carefully, could take 4 to 6 hours. But the value and the benefit will be a permanent help in your job search.
Don't expect this book to solve everything, but DO expect to gain valuable insight about yourself not offered by other writers.
Having taken various aptitude and interest tests, personality type tests, and career counselling, I was still without a clue as to what work would be satisfying for me. I have been told that with my broad range of aptitudes, broad knowledge, and variety of skills, that I "could do anything". I have been told that my abilities are both a "blessing and a curse" because the ones I'm not using will demand expression. So, I've had this tortured search for satisfying work. Meanwhile, I've done a bit of everything: technical writing, designing and building computer hardware and software, systems analysis, I even ran a factory for 5 years! But I've always wondered "where is this all getting me"? "Career Anchors" was recommended to me as a way to answer my question, and I got the book without expecting much.
But to my surprise and delight, I found that the author is the ONLY writer I've found who sees the most important factor in finding one's work is your own internal motivators. His point is that you do best what you have the most motivation to do. In my own words: when you get up in the morning, what is it that you look forward to? What gets you up and going? (He's not so informal.)
I found that my motivation is Pure Challenge!! Did anyone ever identify that anywhere else?! Now I understand why my "career" has been all over the map - everything I've tackled has been deemed by others as impossible - and I've enjoyed tackling and overcoming these challenges. That's been the thread and my motivator. Knowing this makes it much easier to evaluate opportunities and decide whether or not to tackle them.
This is not a difficult book - you can read it in two hours - but what is explained in it is so clear and easy to understand that I'm sure there is value to everyone. And nobody else that I know of is looking at careers this way. It is truly refreshing.
The worksheet exercises are comprehensive, and if you do them carefully, could take 4 to 6 hours. But the value and the benefit will be a permanent help in your job search.
Don't expect this book to solve everything, but DO expect to gain valuable insight about yourself not offered by other writers.
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Discover Your Career Anchor, Now what?
20 Mar 2000
Format:Paperback
After reading this book and taking its quizzes, I found that it provided a good start for insight into one's career anchor. Unfortunately, the journey ends at "discovery". It failed to address how to maximize one's "career anchor" or how to further develop oneself within the anchor. This book will help you determine what your career anchor is (what motivates and stimulates you) and then it will end there. You are left in the dark with how to develop your career around your anchor. The book, however, is true to its subtitle "Discovering your real values"-- but doesn't delve into what to do after this discovery.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Insightful Personal Assessment.
15 Feb 2009
Format:Paperback
This is the earlier version (2000) of Career Anchors which was updated a few years ago. For the lay person, probably not a big difference between the two. You will likely find the materials and self-awareness that results from using this tool similar. The newer version is also available here on Amazon and, again, highly recommended: Career Anchors: Participant Workbook (Pfeiffer Essential Resources for Training and HR Professionals)
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