Careers
Career is a long term or a lifelong job, occupation, or lifelong activity. A career is also actions, progress, and decisions that are made by a person during their lifetime that would be related to their occupation.
Over a long period of time the jobs held, the titles earned, and the work that was accomplished would make up a career.
Today employees tend to change jobs more frequently while staying in their chosen field of work. An example would be a lawyer who could have worked for several different firms and also have specialized in several different areas of law during various periods in their lifetime.
Career success or failure is often what a person is measured by and how they perceive themselves.
The ability to balance a career with home life is difficult with many people who do not find a balance until later in life and some never do.
It was not until the late 20th century that choices in professions and education increased greatly to the point where it was normal for the average person to be able to chose a career.
Today it is not uncommon to have more than one or multiple careers.
The progression up an ordered hierarchy in a profession or organization was the traditional idea of a career. Because of multiple kinds of professions available the traditional idea has shifted to where an individual can progress vertically and horizontally through their career.
Making a decision about a career choice is difficult because you don't know if it will give you the satisfaction and achieve the results that you had envisioned over the course of time.
Career assements are used to help people find and identify their skills, values, and interests and how to best use them.
Career counseling is done with advisors who help people in making career options to research professional and graduate schools and to assess their skills, values, interests, and their personalities.
