Career management

The outcome of successful career management should include personal fulfillment, work–life balance, goal achievement, and financial security.

Careers have often been restricted to an employment commitment to a single trade skill, profession or business firm for the entire working life of a person.

The following classification system with minor variations is widely used:[citation needed] The career management process begins with setting goals/objectives.

This task may be quite difficult when the individual lacks knowledge of career opportunities and/or is not fully aware of their talents and abilities.

However, the entire career management process is based on the establishment of defined goals/objectives whether specific or general in nature.

This process of re-assessing individual learning and development over a period of time is called Career Planning.