Career management

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Career management is defined by (Ball 1997) as:

1. Making career choices and decisions – the traditional focus of careers interventions. The changed nature of work means that individuals may now have to revisit this process more frequently now and in the future, more than in the past.
2. Managing the organizational career – concerns the career management tasks of individuals within the workplace, such as decision-making, life-stage transitions, dealing with stress etc.
3. Managing 'boundaryless' careers – refers to skills needed by workers whose employment is beyond the boundaries of a single organisation, a workstyle common among, for example, artists and designers.
4. Taking control of one's personal development – as employers take less responsibility, employees need to take control of their own development in order to maintain and enhance their employability.

Other elements include:

• Career change (Ibarra 2003) (Strenger 2008)

[edit] Career Planning

Career planning is a subset of career management. Career planning applies the concepts of Strategic planning and Marketing to taking charge of one's professional future.

[edit] See also

• Career
• Career Development
• Career Diversity
• Job interview
• Résumé
• KUDOS

[edit] References

• Ball, B. (1997). "Career management competences – the individual perspective". Career Development International 2 (2): 74-79. 
• Ibarra, Herminia (2003). Working identity: unconventional strategies for reinventing your career. Harvard Business Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=m4bzwnBdktoC. 
• Strenger, Carlo (2008). "The Existential Necessity of Midlife Change". Harvard Business Review February 2008: 82-90. http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2008/02/the-existential-necessity-of-midlife-change/ar/1.