Career Anchors Reimagined: Finding Direction and Opportunity in the Changing World of Work (Jossey-Bass Leadership Series)

Take back control of your career journey In the newly revised edition of Career Anchors: Finding Stability and Opportunity in the Changing Nature of Work , a team of world-renowned management and culture experts delivers a uniquely insightful exploration of your own career values and work relationships as they relate to your past and future choices. This easy-to-use workbook in combination with an online self-assessment offers critical and accessible self-diagnostic exercises along with information about the changing career scene and new descriptions of the eight career anchor categories. This book will help you: Explore how your work choices now relate to your family and self-development Explore how the rapidly changing world of work and business emphasizes globalization, competition, technology, organizational instability, uncertainty, and shifting values Engage in a powerful relationship mapping process that helps you to consider how your work and career choices now interact with your relationships with family, friends, and community Review the career anchor values and examine how these values have changed, so you can make better choices of what, when, where, and how to work as you look ahead This newest edition of Career Anchors is a can’t-miss resource written to help you analyze, assess, and understand the past, present, and future of your own career. It belongs in the libraries of early-career―as well as established―professionals looking to take back control over their work trajectories. "Career Anchors helps you explore and better understand your workplace skills and competencies, career motives, and values. Rather than a participant workbook, the fifth edition will be a trade book with a free assessment that's accessible with a unique pin included in the book. With this program, you will gain new insight into your career values and how they relate to your past and future choices. This easy-to-use workbook includes information about career development and updated descriptions of the eight career anchors categories: The rapidly changing world of business including 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. Updated descriptions of the career anchors. A role mapping process that helps to consider the various external demands and pressures with suggested action steps. 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. An updated "looking ahead" section 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. Developmental activities that participants can use as next steps in their career development The fifth edition of Career Anchors will help you analyze, assess, and understand your particular career anchor to help you chart the future of your career development"-- Provided by publisher