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Scoring Your Career Anchor

The document describes how to score and interpret the results of a career anchor assessment. It explains that the highest score indicates your primary career anchor, while a secondary score that is close could also be important. The summary provides descriptions of the individual's primary and secondary career anchors: Entrepreneurial Creativity and Managerial Competence. Entrepreneurial Creativity involves creating a business, overcoming obstacles, taking risks for profit and recognition. Managerial Competence motivates advancement, leadership, contributing to success through analytical, interpersonal and emotional competence in management.

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Scoring Your Career Anchor

The document describes how to score and interpret the results of a career anchor assessment. It explains that the highest score indicates your primary career anchor, while a secondary score that is close could also be important. The summary provides descriptions of the individual's primary and secondary career anchors: Entrepreneurial Creativity and Managerial Competence. Entrepreneurial Creativity involves creating a business, overcoming obstacles, taking risks for profit and recognition. Managerial Competence motivates advancement, leadership, contributing to success through analytical, interpersonal and emotional competence in management.

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Scoring Your Career Anchor

To find your career anchor, transfer your ratings on each of the 64 questions onto the scoring
sheet on the following page. Add the scores down each column and place this number in the
corresponding TOTALS box below each column. The highest score is your Career Anchor. If
any two scores are close (within 10 points), read the description of each of the two Career
Anchors and see which one you feel best describes your true preference. The Career Anchor
indicated by your second highest score may also be an important indicator and should also be
recorded. The Career Anchor descriptions follow the scoring form. If one of the descriptions
seems to be accurate with your own self-perceptions but is not your highest number, use that one
as your Career Anchor, regardless of the scores. Record you’re Career Anchors on the lines
below:

My primary Career Anchor is: ______Entrepreneurial Creativity________


My secondary Career Anchor is: ____Managerial Competence _________

ENTREPRENEURIAL CREATIVITY
The individual with an entrepreneurial anchor has a strong need to create a new business, the
motivation to overcome obstacles, the willingness, and the courage to run risks, and the desire
for personal gain and recognition for what is accomplished. It is important to separate
entrepreneurial creativity from the autonomy anchor and from the technical/functional anchor.
The entrepreneur is firmly rooted in ownership, creating a marketable and profitable product or
service (regardless of the technology or intellectual discipline involved), and in making large
amounts of money. These individuals seldom stay with an organization that is not their own for
long periods of time. They are eager to be fully active in an enterprise of their own creation
where they can sink or swim on the merits of their personal ideas, abilities, personality, and
drive.

MANAGERIAL COMPETENCE
The key motivations for people anchored in managerial competence are advancement up the
corporate ladder to higher levels of responsibility, growing opportunities to serve in a position of
leadership, increasing contribution to the overall success of the organization, and a long-term
opportunity for high income and estate-building. 8 People committed to managerial competence
recognize the need to excel in three basic areas of management: analytical, interpersonal, and
emotional. Analytical competence is the ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems under
conditions of uncertainty or incomplete information. Interpersonal competence includes the
ability to supervise people and to influence, lead, and control them toward their achievement of
organizational goals. Emotional competence includes the capacity to remain energized and
proactive, without excessive anxiety or guilt, during periods of high stress, emotional and
interpersonal crises, appearances of failure, and increasingly higher levels of responsibility and
authority, and in general be able to handle the characteristic pressures and stresses that
accompany management responsibilities. The person with managerial competence as a Career
Anchor has significant skills in all three areas, as differentiated from the technical or functional
person who is highly developed in one skill area. This competence is recognized principally
through promotion, and the managerial-anchored individual requires frequent promotions to
remain satisfied.

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