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Sequence of occupations and other life roles that express a person's commitment to work and reflect her or his pattern of self-development. Each person has one, lifelong career that may include many occupations and jobs. A career also includes education activities and decisions, and the way a person's work life is integrated with other life roles such as family, community, and leisure.
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The sum of one's experiences in a variety of roles throughout life. Every person has a career, which includes all of the individual's work, learning, community and family roles.
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A person's life work pattern; the way in which the individual expresses himself and relates to society through work. It can include education, training, politics, occupations, home, and family; a total progression.
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Paid and unpaid positions held by an individual, of which occupation is only one; includes work-related roles and volunteer activities.
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The sum total of your life experiences including education, paid and unpaid work, and community, volunteer and family activities.
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An occupation selected and pursued as the chief area of employment during your working life. A career usually involves the development of skills and the aim of successive promotions.
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Titles that guide the reader to the ways and means of obtaining a particular job, vocation or profession.
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the particular occupation for which you are trained
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the general progression of your working or professional life; "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he had a long career in the law"
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a body of work, not just a job, and it implies progression
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a chosen pursuit, or profession
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a gradual development in your professional life
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a job or series of jobs in a particular field of expertise
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a job that has gone on too long
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a job with a long-range plans
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a life decision
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a life job, and no one is sure whether it was worthy or not till it is over
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a lifetime sequence of occupations, activities, responsibilities and services you perform
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a line of work
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an important step in your life
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a passion that you can parlay into a series of satisfying, well-paying jobs
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a profession or job that you train for and get experience in over several years
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a series of related jobs with each position offering opportunities for growth and advancement
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a succession of jobs
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a succession of vocations and avocations (e
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a terrible substitute for a life
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a way of life
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the sequence of positions held by a person during his or her working life.
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The combination of a person's multiple life roles, including worker, student, parent, child, spouse/partner, citizen, retiree.  Occupation is an important part of one's life and career, as well as educational field of study, leisure pursuits, and family roles.
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a chosen pursuit; a profession or occupation
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A life style concept that involves a sequence of work or leisure activities in which one engages throughout a lifetime. A career is unique to each person and is dynamic and unfolding throughout life. Careers include not only occupations but pre-vocational and post-vocational activities and decisions as well as how persons integrate their work life with their other life roles such as family, community and leisure pursuits. A career may include occupations and jobs or just one of each if the individual keeps the same job throughout his/her lifetime.
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All the events in a person's life from birth to death. Includes education, work, training, family. unemployment, self employment, retirement.
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Our general, moral, or intellectual course of action through life; following our profession, training, occupation, or life's work. Increasingly, we have more than one career per life-time. Those who work within their preferences report that they view their career as "an activity embedded within the flow of life", a "useful pursuit of worthy goals", a "worthy expression of my life", an "opportunity to make others feel good." To experience and live these definitions: recall the best things you've ever done, and then find the opportunity and venue to do them again.
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is a lifestyle concept that involves a sequence of work and leisure activities in which one engages throughout a lifetime. Careers are unique to each person and are dynamic, unfolding throughout life. They include not only occupations, but pre-vocational and post vocational concerns as well as how persons balance their work and personal life roles.
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A way of making a living, used by some to refer only to certain ways of doing so; for example, lawyers have careers; electricians have jobs.
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A job for which you are trained and in which it is possible to advance during your working life.
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One meaning of vocation is career, a life-work chosen by a person to use personal talent, provide some service or goods, earn money, and contribute to society.
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Used to describe the sequence of jobs in the lifetime of a person.
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the sequence of occupations, jobs, or positions undertaken by individuals throughout their working lives.
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A job for which one is trained and in which it is possible to advance during one's working life.
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The work you choose as your occupation for life.
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The sequence of work-related positions a person occupies throughout life.
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