Career is a term defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as an individual's "course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)". The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) published by the Oxford University Press (OUP is a comprehensive Dictionary of the English It usually is considered to pertain to remunerative work (and sometimes also formal education). Education encompasses both the Teaching and Learning of Knowledge, proper conduct, and technical competency

A career is traditionally seen as a course of successive situations that make up a person's worklife. One can have a sporting career or a musical career without being a professional athlete or musician, but most frequently "career" in the 20th century referenced the series of jobs or positions by which one earned one's money. Sport is an Activity that is governed by a set of rules or Customs and often engaged in competitively Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. A sportsperson ( British and American English) or athlete (principally American English is any person who participates regularly in a Sport. A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a The twentieth century of the Common Era began on It tended to look only at the past.

As the idea of personal choice and self direction picks up in the 21st century, aided by the power of the Internet and the increased acceptance of people having multiple kinds of work, the idea of a career is shifting from a closed set of achievements, like a chronological résumé of past jobs, to a defined set of pursuits looking forward. In its broadest sense, career refers to an individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee.

In the relatively static societies before modernism, many workers would often inherit or take up a single lifelong position (a place or role) in the workforce, and the concept of an unfolding career had little or no meaning. A society is a Population of Humans characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive Culture and Institutions Modernism describes an array of Cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century A role (sometimes spelled rôle) or a social role is a set of connected Behaviors Rights and Obligations as conceptualized by actors Workforce (Voyager episode The workforce is the labour pool in Employment. With the spread during the Enlightenment of the idea of progress and of the habits of individualist self-betterment, careers became possible, if not expected. The Age of Enlightenment or The Enlightenment is a term used to describe a phase in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the eighteenth century Social progress is defined as the changing of society toward the ideal

Career Assessments are tests that come in a variety of forms and rely on both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Career Assessments are tests that are designed to help individuals understand their unique personality profile (i Career Assessments can help individuals identify and better articulate their unique interests, values, and skills. Career counselors, executive coaches, career development centers, and outplacement companies often administer career assessments to help individuals focus their search on careers that closely match their unique personal profile. An employment counsellor, also known as a career development professional, advises coaches provides information to and supports people who are planning seeking and managing

Career counseling advisors assess people's interests, personality, values and skills, and also help them explore career options and research graduate and professional schools. Career counseling provides one-on-one or group professional assistance in exploration and decision making tasks related to choosing a major/occupation, transitioning into the world of work or further professional training. The field is vast and includes career placement, career planning, learning strategies and student development.

By the late 20th century a plethora of choices (especially in the range of potential professions) and more widespread education had allowed it to become fashionable to plan (or design) a career: in this respect the careers of the career counsellor and of the career advisor have grown up. The term profession is applied to those persons who have specialized and technical skill or knowledge which they apply for a fee to certain tasks that ordinary and unqualified people cannot Education encompasses both the Teaching and Learning of Knowledge, proper conduct, and technical competency Fashion refers to styles of dress (but can also include cuisine literature art architecture and general comportment that are popular in a culture at any given time It is also not uncommon for adults in the late 20th/early 21st centuries to have dual or multiple careers, either sequentially or concurrently. Whereas a Career comprises the work activities that can be identified with a particular job or Profession, having multiple careers is the growing trend Thus, professional identities have become hyphenated or hybridized to reflect this shift in work ethic. Economist Richard Florida notes this trend generally and more specifically among the "creative class. Richard Florida (born 1957 in Newark New Jersey) is an American Urban studies theorist The creative class is a group of people that social scientist Dr "

See also

• Career development
• Career Clusters
• Career management
• Career Diversity
• Description of a Career
• Edgar Schein
• John L. Holland
• Holland Codes
• Peer pressure
• Personality psychology
• Aptitude
• School counselor
• Multiple Careers

For a pre-modernist notion of "career", compare cursus honorum. In Organizational development (or OD the study of Career development looks at how individuals manage their careers within and between organizations Career Clusters provide students with a context for studying traditional academics and learning the skills specific to a career and provide U Career management is defined by Ball (1997 as Making Career choices and decisions &ndash the traditional focus of careers interventions Career Diversity is the practice of working professionals cultivating multiple careers at the same time rather than making a job transition Edgar H Schein (born 1928 a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management has had a notable mark on the field of Organizational development in many areas John L Holland is an American Psychologist who spent much of his Career at Johns Hopkins University. Holland Codes are personality types created by psychologist John L Peer Pressure is a term describing the pressure exerted by a Peer group in encouraging a person to change their Attitude, Behavior and/or Morals Personality psychology studies personality based on theories of individual differences An aptitude is an innate acquired or learned or developed component of a competency ( being the others knowledge understanding and attitude) to do a certain kind of work A school counselor is a Counselor and Educator who works in schools and have historically been referred to as " guidance counselors " or " Whereas a Career comprises the work activities that can be identified with a particular job or Profession, having multiple careers is the growing trend The cursus honorum ( Latin: "course of honors" or "honors race" was the sequential order of Public offices held by aspiring

External links

• An Insider's Guide to Airline Flight Attendant Interviews
• Break Your Career Slump - Yahoo Finance
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• O*NET Online Career Search
• U.S. Department of Labor
• United Nations (2002), Handbook on career counseling
• Career Directory and Research Resource

Labor and employment research

Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Institute for Women and Work at Cornell University

Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School

Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University