6Career Anchors Assessment: A Preview of the Online Experience
Dr. Seuss:
“On and on you will hike
And I know you'll hike far
And face up to your problems
Whatever they are.”
It is our hope that you will work through the Career Anchors assessment and realize the opportunities to leverage your strengths and move beyond what you feel are “problems” in your career trajectory.
The online assessment, https://www.careeranchorsonline.com, that accompanies this book offers an easy way for you to test your insights about yourself with a set of questions derived from the original longitudinal Career Anchors study.
We have ordered the self‐insight exercises so far—reflection, relationship mapping, the partner/personal interview, and now the assessment so that you have multiple perspectives on your career journey.
The first part of the online assessment consists of 32 questions for which you score your reaction, whether in alignment or disagreement with the sentiment expressed in the statement.
Examples of the kinds of statements that you will score are as follows:
- I have always felt most successful and accomplished when I could use my specialized training/expertise in my work.
- I am always on the lookout for ideas that motivate me to start my own business.
- Being a general manager is more attractive to me than being an expert in a particular technical domain.
You will gauge your agreement with the sentiment along the following scale:
“I feel this way or agree with this sentiment …” ...
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