The notion of a career arose relatively recently and denotes the result of a person's conscious labor activity or, in other words, official growth.
Concept and types of business career
A business career is a more professional growth of a person, which includes raising the social status, accumulating labor experience, increasing the amount of professional knowledge in a certain field of activity.
Concerning the place of career growth, there are such types and types of a business career:
1. Intra-organizational career, involves the passage of various stages of professional growth, training and development, until retirement in the same company or organization.
2. Interorganizational career, includes the passage of all labor stages of professional activity at various enterprises and firms.
Interorganizational career can include, also 2 subspecies:
- Specialized career , allows you to engage in the same type of activity at different enterprises.
- a non-specialized career that allows you to change not only the place of work, but also directly the type of activity throughout the entire work path, from training to retirement.
3. Centripetal career, is not available for a wide range of workers and is invisible to others. This opportunity is provided to employees who have close personal contacts with management outside the organization. Such a career presupposes a movement toward the core-leadership positions. Thanks to such a career, an employee can attend meetings and meetings, both formal and informal, that are inaccessible to his employees and belong to the highest social circles of society, while occupying an outstanding position.
Concerning the hierarchy of posts, one can consider such types of business careers as:
- horizontal;
- vertical.
Types and stages of a career
A career, as well as a business career, means promotion to the career ladder and the improvement of one's working skills. It depends in many ways on the choice of the profession and the first steps of a person on the path to becoming oneself, as a professional in a certain sphere. Of great importance here is also a fair assessment of the employee's positive qualities and shortcomings. After all, only in this case, you can properly build your professional goals for the future. The work path can develop in different ways. It can be stable or dynamic, depending on how long a person spends on one job.
Specialists in this area distinguish 2 types of career, which by their definition are very similar to the types of business careers:
- professional;
- intraorganizational.
Each person for his life, regardless of the type of professional activity and the possibility of career growth, passes certain stages of the career, which can be conditionally described as follows:
- Youth - from 15 to 25 years. Time to choose a profession and the first attempts to work in organizations.
- Formation - from 25 to 30 years. It is conventionally considered that this stage lasts for 5 years, for which the employee masters the chosen profession.
- Promotion - from 30 to 45 years. The most suitable time for advancement on a career ladder.
- Stable work - from 45 to 60 years. Time to consolidate the achieved professional heights.
- Pension - from 60 to 65 years. Completion of employment, retirement.