Edgar Schein’s 8 career anchors, John Holland’s RAISEC profiling tool and Dr Howard Gardner’s “Beyond Wit and Grit: Rethinking the Keys to Success” serve as important conceptual anchors for answering the question “What environments can I shine the best in?” In Gardner’s The Good Project, he outlined how he pioneered the field of Multiple Intelligence (WIT), touched on the increasingly popular topic of grit, and then concluded that there is more to that. The Good Project website provides some career guidance on the gaps that Gardner identified, and some of these revolve around: These are broadly similar to that Richard Bolles identified in this book What Colour is Your Parachute. There, his “7 petals” framework comprised of fields of interests, skills, preferred working conditions (including practical considerations like preferred level of responsibility, salary and work locale) and coherence with purpose in life. They are also complementary with Edgar Schein’s 8 identified Career Anchors of Learn about WITGRITFIT through a simulation game and apply career design principles to find your unique advantage
Just because we can do a particular job well does not mean we will find fulfilment doing it. In our career guidance workshop, we aim to help you discover your unique career fit. In seeking career development or job enrichment opportunities, many often overlook career fulfilment as a key part of the equation.
At Avid Adventures, we have chosen to term these factors as “FIT” –
how well a particular job fits that job seeker.
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