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Determining Your Career Anchors

This self-assesment may help you determine why your job is making you miserable. (ExecuNet)

July 2006

KEYWORDS: Career, Career Strategies

All happy employees resemble one another. All unhappy employees are unhappy in their own way. And you need to determine why you’re unhappy in your current situation before you can make things better. This self-assessment can help. (Read this story in ExecuNet)

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