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Abstract Although career anchors are used as a career tool in organizations, are examined in many limited researches. The purpose of this study is to determine the career anchors which affect the job and career decision of the tourism students. Therefore, Tourism and Hotel Management students who attend four-year programs/departments of Balikesir University have been conducted surveys. The Career Anchors Scale developed by Schein (1990) has been used to determine the career anchors of the tourism students and reliability and validity analyzes of the scale have been conducted. The factor analysis has been applied first. Confirmatory factor analysis has been used to test the suitability of the model. Also whether there is a significant difference between the students' demographic characteristics and career anchors have been tried to determine. One of the important result of the research that technical/functional competence, lifestyle, entrepreneurial creativity, and autonomy/ independence are more important values than others for the tourism students. Also there is a significant difference between the career anchors and gender, age, the situation affected the job decision and desire to work in tourism after graduation. Keywords: Career, Career Anchors, Tourism Students, Demographic Characteristics. 

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