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Extracts from JMPS Career Check Workbook - Part 1
 In order to be able to consider our career we need to be able to articulate our strengths, skills, needs and desires. Two of the areas considered by Career Check are Careers Anchors and Desires CAREER ANCHORS Throughout our career we will have developed a pattern of talents, motives and values which have guided, constrained, stabilised or integrated our career. These one or two constants have generally underpinned our work experiences. These are described as career anchors. Generally speaking anchors will not be relinquished if a choice has to be made. Career Anchors are split into eight major areas:
Technical functional competence The prime concern of people with this career anchor is the actual functional or technical content of the work they are doing. They are concerned to be good at that work. They tend to look down on general management viewing it as a jungle with no real rules or laws. Functional management is seen as a way to advance but they are not attracted to management for its own sake. They tend to be very task orientated, getting satisfaction from accomplishing the task and getting it right. Managerial competence People in this group tend to want to co-ordinate and manage the work of others. They tend to have combinations of the following skills:
Politics is seen as making things happen. Having ultimate responsibility is where they want to be. The main consideration in this anchor is the combination of skills, others may be better at one particular competence but are unable to deploy all of them. Autonomy/independence The main need of this group is to be on their own, setting their own pace, agenda, schedules and lifestyle. They want to be free from organisational rules and restrictions. Will trade status for independence. Individuals in this group wish to exercise their regard for others as the principle of all their actions. These individuals need the constant opportunity to experience variety and novelty in their lives. They need obstacles to overcome, the more difficult the better and need to be winning. These individuals wish to make all parts of their life into an integrated whole. They understand the values they put on each aspect of their life and work to accommodate all parts. These individuals are the entrepreneurs. They have an overwhelming need to build or create something which is entirely their own, they need to leave their mark on the world. Such people keep getting into new ventures, trying their hands at new projects not necessarily always successfully. Security and Stability People anchored in Security and Stability have primary concern to maintain a decent and stable income with a predictable future. There are two forms of stability seen, those who wish to remain based in a particular group or organisation of people and those who wish to remain in a particular location or community. These individuals tend to rely on the organisation, to do what is required of them by their employers in order to maintain their job security and tend to rely on the organisation to develop their careers.
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