Exploring Career Anchors for Personal Development and Professional Growth
The session at the Eli Broad College of Business focuses on understanding career anchors—key principles guiding career decisions. Attendees will learn about current trends in career development, gain insights into their own anchors, and compare their findings with peers. The agenda includes exercises for self-assessment, identifying individual talents, and defining core values that influence career choices. Participants will discover practical ways to leverage this knowledge in their career planning and decision-making processes for sustained professional success.
Exploring Career Anchors for Personal Development and Professional Growth
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Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University Human Resource Training and Individual Development Career Anchors March 29, 2004
Agenda for Today • Career anchors • Description • Current trends • Your career anchors • Comparing your data with graduate students and executives • Exercise • How to use career anchors info • Help for PDPs
Career Anchors • Self-perceived talents and abilities • Basic values • The evolved sense of motives and needs as they pertain to the careers • Source: Schein, AME,1996
Career Anchors • Technical/functional competence • Intrinsic challenge/expertise in specialty • General managerial competence • Get ahead, value responsibility, varied work • Autonomy/independence • Masters of own ship, do your own thing • Security/stability • Future is predictable and stable, job security
Career Anchors • Entrepreneurial creativity • Create new businesses, products, services • Service/dedication to a cause • Central values you want to embody in work; desire to improve the world • Pure challenge • Success is doing impossible, overcoming odds • Lifestyle • Lifestyle more important than career
How Do I Use Career Anchor Information? • Analyze your concentration/direction • Does your intended focus fit your anchor(s)? • Analyze your prospective job • Tell decision-makers who you are and what you want • Manage your career