BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Career Path
- a planned, logical progression of jobs within one or more professions throughout working life. A career path can be planned with greater assurance in market conditions of stability and little change. In times of great change and uncertainty, some people, such as Dominic Cadbury, have argued that there is no longer such a thing as a planned career path and instead place greater emphasis on the importance of CPD in order to maintain employability.
Additional Resources
- Defense Acquisition University: update on SPRDE Systems Engineering career path
- On pages 53-54 of the March-April 2007 issue of Defense AT & L, the article entitled "Upcoming SPRDE-SE Certification Changes" described several changes to the DoD Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering Systems Engineering career path. In the intervening time, there has been further refinement of the changes. Effective...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- The Top 5 Things To Consider When Thinking Of Changing Your Career Path
- Change is inevitable but that doesn't mean one cannot learn to make something worthwhile of the necessary changes that life presents us with. Careers are great; they keep you on a steady part. When you choose a career, it helps you narrow down your options and helps you build yourself...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Planning Your Degree In Line With Your Career Path
- A college degree is really important since it decides what your future career holds for you. To keep it straight and simple, a college degree is an investment with assured long-term benefits. But is earning a degree really that important? Well, there are statistics that will make the picture clearer...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Career Path Confusion?...How To Choose The Right One!
- When dissatisfaction and maybe disillusionment set in, we begin to think about changing our career path. But how...without slipping into the same dilemma all over again? Research has shown that matching your personality and interests to a job increases the chances of your feeling satisfied in your career. But how...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY: Student follows new career path.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 June 1999-SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY: Student follows new career path C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:010699 A 34-year-old woman who gave up a career in journalism to return to school is the winner of the SFU Dean of Arts medal. ...
- Research articles 1999-06-02
- Career path to nowhere: the changing world
- PICTURE THIS career path. 1980: graduate college; 1980-1984: salesperson; 1985: back to school/MBA; 1985-1988: associate product manager; 1989-1991: product manager small brand; 1991-1994: product manager major brand; 1995-1997: sales development/trade relations; 1998-2000: group product manager; 2001-2002: vice president, marketing; 2003: job eliminated! New Thinking, Marketing Needs! What? No...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- Using Lateral Moves to Further Your Career
- Given the proportion of your time that you spend working, you probably want your job to be an interesting part of your life.It used to be that to keep things interesting you needed to keep getting promoted. In today's lean and flattened workplaces, frequent promotions have ended up on the...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career
- The Idea in Brief Are you one of the growing number of people struggling to make mid-career changes? Searching for ten easy steps to professional reinvention? Or awaiting flashes of insight--while opportunities pass you by? Would...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- Stanford's Tina Seelig: The Rule Breaker's Career Guide
- Tina Seelig may be the much-lauded director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the entrepreneurship center at Stanford's School of Engineering, as well as a successful author of 15 books, but at heart she's really a rebel. Her latest book, What I Wish I Knew When...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Weighing the Pros and Cons of a Career Break
- Career breaks have never been more popular, as overworked employees look for some time away from their same old, same old routine. Most often people have one of two motivations for taking time off: either other priorities demand attention, or there's a need to get away and gain some perspective...
- Articles 2008-01-03
- Understand Career Planning
- Career planning is an important step for many people to set some clear goals and map out their future career path. Career planning can help you determine your strengths and weaknesses, learn about different industries, and will encourage you to brainstorm different career options before settling into a long-term career...
- White papers 2007-05-11
- Planning Your Ideal Career
- When first thinking about planning your career and finding yourself a new job, you should be realistic. Look at what experiences you have, the skills you have gained and what your strengths and weaknesses are. Is the career path you are looking at achievable with your current skills or will...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Weighing Your Career-Break Options
- If you're thinking of taking a break from your job or career, you'd be well advised to do some advance planning. As with most things in life, you will get the most out of this endeavor if you give it careful consideration. While some career breaks are dictated by circumstance—such...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- Employees are Brushing Up on Career DIY
- The traditional career deal has changed: self-management is now key While the signs are that job tenure has remained surprisingly consistent, the traditional promise a career for life may not have survived the recesssion. Even Japan, perhaps the last bastion of the job for life seems to have had...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Bright Career Ideas for Dark Times | BTalk Australia
- (16min 27) How do you advance your career? Or, if you’re recently retrenched, how do you get back onto the career ladder? Today on BTalk Phil Dobbie talks to Darren Buchanan, a Director at Hays, about 10 things to consider about your career right now. It’s all...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- JetBlue's new COO didn't follow traditional aviation career trail
- Russ Chew, the new COO charged with getting JetBlue back on track, has followed a jagged career path. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Chew studied psychology and computer science in addition to following a pre-med/pre-dental path at Stanford. Then he earned a doctor of dental...
- Research articles 2007-06-07
- Get A New Job - Career Choices
- You can prepare to change your career by making up for your lack of experience with education. Consider distance learning as a means for you to go back to school while you continue working. Update your resume to make it look right for your target career employers. Prepare for tough...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Career Discovery - Pinpoint Your Ideal Career
- Career discovery is the process by which a person identifies their ideal career path, thus saving themselves a lot of time and money by not pursuing career choices that they will ultimately find unfulfilling. To find your true calling, you need to dig around and find the things that are...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- How To Use It To Find A Career
- Those looking out for jobs have a variety of choices apart from the classified ads in the newspaper though they are an important source if you are looking for local jobs. The arrival of internet has made job hunting much easier than before. While classified ads in the dailies offer...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Is Honesty the Best Career Policy?
- We’ve read volumes on problems with quarter-to-quarter myopia in managing a public enterprise. But what about the problem of job-to-job myopia when it comes to managing your own career? In the same way that long-term corporate value can be sacrificed to the Gods of Quarterly Profit, there's also a trade-off...
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
