Week $11$ Activity $2$: Career orientations inventory

The purpose of this questionnaire is to stimulate your thoughts about your own areas of competence, motives, and values. This questionnaire alone will not reveal your career anchors because it is too easy to bias your answers. However, it will activate your thinking and prepare you for the self$-$reflection questions asked at the end of the activity.

INSTRUCTIONS $($PART A$)$

Try to answer the questions as honestly as you can and work quickly. Avoid extreme ratings except in situations in which you clearly have strong feelings in one direction or the other.

HOW TO RATE THE ITEMS

For each of the $40$ items, rate how true each item is for you by assigning a number from $1$ to $6.$ The higher the number, the more that item is true for you.

$1$ if the statement is never true for me

$2$ or $3$ if the statement is occasionally true for you

$4$ of $5$ if the statement is often true for you

$6$ if the statement is always true for you

Never true for me Occasionally true for me Often true for me Always true for me

$12$ or $34$ or $56$

Rating # Question

$1.$ I dream of being so good at what I do that my expert advice will be sought continually

$2.$ I am most fulfilled in my work when I have been able to

integrate and manage the efforts of others

$3.$ I dream of having career that will allow me the freedom to do a job my own way and on my own schedule

$4.$ Security and stability are more important to me than freedom and autonomy

$5.$ I am always on the lookout for ideas that would permit me to

start my own enterprise

$6.$ I will feel successful in my career only if I have a feeling of having made a real contribution to the welfare of society

$7.$ I dream of a career in which I can solve problems or win out in situations that are extremely challenging

$8.$ I would rather leave my organisation than to be put in a job that would compromise my ability to pursue personal and

family concerns

$9.$ I will feel successful in my career only if I can develop technical or functional skills to a very high level competence

$10.$ I dream of being in charge of a complex organisation and making decisions that affect many people

$11.$ I am most fulfilled in my work when I am completely free to

define my own tasks, schedules and procedures

$12.$ I would rather leave my organisation altogether than accept an assignment that would jeopardize my security in that

organisation

$13.$ Building my own business is more important to me than achieving a high$-$level managerial position in someone else$$s organisation

$14.$ I am most fulfilled in my career when I have been able to use

my talents in the service of others

$15.$ I will feel successful in my career only if I face and overcome very difficult challenges

$16.$ I dream of a career that will permit me to integrate my personal, family, and work needs

$17.$ Becoming a senior functional manager in my area of expertise

is more attractive to me than becoming a general manager

$18.$ I will feel successful in my career only if I become a general manager in some organisation

$19.$ I will feel successful in my career only if I achieve complete

autonomy and freedom

$20.$ I seek jobs in organisations that will give me a sense of security and stability

$21.$ I am most fulfilled in my career when I have been able to build

something that is entirely the result of my own ideas and efforts

$22.$ Using my skills to make the world a better place to live and work is more important to me than achieving a high$-$level

managerial position.

$23.$ I have been most fulfilled in my career when I have solved seemingly unsolvable problems or won out over seemingly impossible odds

$24.$ I feel successful in life only if I have been able to balance my

personal, family, and career requirements

$25.$ I would rather leave my organisation than accept a rotational assignments that would take me out of my area of expertise

$26.$ Becoming a general manager is more attractive to me than becoming a senior functional manager in my current area of expertise

$27.$ The chance to do a job my own way, free of rules and

constraints, is more important to me than security

$28.$ I am most fulfilled in my work when I feel that I have complete financial and employment security

$29.$ I will feel successful in my career only if I succeed in creating or building something that is entirely my own product or idea

$30.$ I dream of having a career that makes a real contribution to

humanity and society

$31.$ I seek out work opportunities that strongly challenge my problem solving and$/$or competitive skills

$32.$ Balancing the demands of personal and professional life is more important to me than achieving a high$-$level managerial

position

$33.$ I am most fulfilled in my work when I have been able to use my special skills and talents

$34.$ I would rather leave my organisation than accept a job that

would take me away from the general managerial track

$35.$ I would rather leave