The Manifestation of Career: Introduction and Overview

Abstract

This handbook is focused on work, occupation, and career development: themes that are fundamental to a wide range of human activities and relevant in some way across all cultures. Our focus in this writing is not "a" career, but "career" as a form of work. The manner in which career manifests itself is a complex phenomenon, influenced by a wide variety of factors. Therefore, we attempt at the outset to describe its conceptual location and do so by pointing to the nature and quality of transformations that have occurred in the evolution of work and career. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)