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Multiple Stories to Career Building
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Reference: ART-2046-E
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Number of pages: 8
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Publication Date: Dec 15, 2011
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Source: IESE (España)
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Type of Document: Article
Description
Career success used to be defined in terms of climbing the corporate ladder and moving up the salary scale, often sacrificing other personal aspirations along the way. Yet socioeconomic changes have altered not only the nature of competition, but also people's priorities and their conception of professional development. Rather than a steady ascent to the summit, careers are regarded as winding paths shaped according to various stages and cycles of a person's lifetime. The author analyzes this shift and describes four ways in which companies can drive personal and professional development among their workforce, based on feasible flexibility, development-oriented relationships, visibility and transparency, and diversity management.
Keywords
breadth
capabilities
career
career track
competencies
corporate ladder
cultural intelligence
development-oriented relationships
diversity
employability
experience
feasible flexibility
learning
linear
path
personal support
professional challenge
race
self-knowledge
talent management
telecommuting
trajectory
transition
transparency
visibility