According to Edgar Schein’s Career Anchors Model, individuals who are primarily driven by a desire to master specialized skills, achieve subject-matter expertise, and continuously deepen their professional domain knowledge are governed by which career anchor?

In Edgar Schein’s framework, a Career Anchor represents an individual’s self-perceived combination of talents, values, and motives that guides their career choices. Individuals with a Technical / Functional Competence anchor are motivated by the exercise and mastery of specific skills or technical content (e.g., engineering, accounting, law, or specific domain expertise). They prefer career growth opportunities that allow them to deepen their technical specialization rather than general management roles that shift their focus away from their functional domain.