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My name is Ronan Carbery,
and I'm a Senior Lecturer
in Management at
Cork University Business
School, UCC Ireland.
In this video, I will be talking
about career development.
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Over the past 30-40 years,
there have been significant
changes in the way work is
organised and how career
paths have developed.
The ability to predict and
plan careers in advance has
decreased with the need for
individuals to be flexible
in their career choices.
The days of a steady,
stable career are over.
Organisational
structures have become
flatter and less ladder-like
making upward
progression less common.
Individuals
expectations as to what
they want from employment
have also changed,
making it necessary
for employers to
accommodate more flexible
working patterns.
In response to this, we
have seen a number of
new career types proposed
to describe careers today.
One commonality shared by
these concepts is that
of self-directedness.
The career is directed by
the individual rather
than the organisation.
In this video, we will discuss
what a career entails,
along with a comparison of
traditional and
contemporary career types.
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The term career was initially
used to indicate a
designation of privilege.
In the early 1900s,
only a small number of
individuals, predominantly males,
had careers, and these were in
stereotypical
professional jobs for
example law, medicine
and education.
The terms occupation or job
were used to describe
most situations where
individuals exchange
their labour or
skills in return for
monetary reward.
Now, however, the term career
has significantly broadened to
include the entirety of
work experiences that
a person engages in,
rather than focusing solely on
employment in one
industry or profession.
