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There are myriad of definitions associated with the phrase “career development” (see Egan et al. 2006: pp. 457–467), and in this entry, we have limited highlights to couple as outlined below:
“Career development is a lifelong, continuous process of developing and implementing a self-concept, testing it against reality, with satisfaction to self and benefit to society” (Super 1957, p. 282).
“Career development is a balancing operation-recognizing and meeting the needs of the individual while recognizing and responding to outer forces and a lifelong process of working out a synthesis between the self and the reality, opportunities and limitations of the world” (Kroll et al. 1970, p.17).
“Career development focuses on the alignment of individual subjective career aspects and the more objective career aspects of the organization in order to achieve the best fit between individual and organizational needs as well as...
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Jackson, E.A., Jackson, E.E.S., Jackson, H.F. (2020). Nurturing Career Development for Human Resource Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Decent Work and Economic Growth. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71058-7_2-1
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