Career Anchors: Facilitator's Guide, Fourth Edition

For almost fifty years Career Anchors has been the industry standard for individuals to discover their "career anchor," a combination of perceived areas of competence, motives, and values related to occupational work choices. Developed by Edgar Schein at MIT's Sloan School of Management and based on years of research, the eight Career Anchors are: Technical/Functional Competence; General Managerial Competence; Autonomy/Independence; Security/Stability; Entrepreneurial Creativity; Service/Dedication to a Cause; Pure Challenge; and Lifestyle.

Now in its fourth edition Career Anchors offers facilitators a comprehensive resource for administering the Career Anchors Self-Assessment. This Facilitator's Guide includes step-by-step directions for helping participants through their individual discovery process and future career planning. This new edition includes new and updated information and

• Addresses the rapidly changing world of business and includes more information on globalization, heightened competition, new technologies, greater organizational instability and uncertainty and, shifting societal values, all of which influence career trajectories and career anchors
• Includes a more detailed description and elaboration of the eight anchors
• Offers a Role Mapping Process that helps to consider the various external demands and pressures and suggests action steps if these external demands are marked by ambiguity, overload, and/or conflict
• Contains a Work Career and Family/Life Priority Grid that includes suggestions for how the work, family, and personal patterns identified can interact (for better or worse) with each of the eight career anchors
• Presents a new "looking ahead" section of the companion workbook that begins with a comprehensive look at how the world of work is changing and what these changes may mean for each of the career anchors
• Includes developmental activities that participants can use as next steps in their career development

Career Anchors is both easy-to-use and flexible and has been updated to reflect the ever-changing workplace environment. The workshop models can be used as a concise 30- to 45-minute exercise or in the longer half-day format.