Motivation
Your career motives focus on novelty and independence as well as expertise and security. An ideal career track for you would be one that would give you opportunities to develop in-depth skills and technology in a field or specialty in high demand. Where you could set your own rules and do things your own way, and where you could apply your expertise to many different kinds of problems and projects.
A career as an expert trouble-shooter or specialized consultant would fit this description very well.
An organizational culture supportive of your motives and your ideal career experience would have some or all of these key features:
· main business would be products or services based on clearly defined core competencies;
· an array of assignments and relatively short-term projects requiring the application of your skills and talents - perhaps scattered over a wide geographic region;
· training emphasizing refining and maintaining technical skills;
· an informal atmosphere giving a good deal of latitude to subject matter experts;
· rewards based on demonstrated expertise, technical competence, innovative thinking in the application of your specialty, personal initiative and ability to work without close supervision and guidance.