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Article: Career Development and Its Practice: A Historical Perspective.(industries historical review)(Industry Overview)
- Article from:
- Career Development Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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The use of the term career development as descriptive of both the factors and the processes influencing individual career behavior and as synonymous with intervention in career behavior (e.g., the practice of career development) is relatively recent. As professional vocabulary evolves across time, so do the form and substance of career interventions and those to whom they are directed. At the beginning of the new millennium, this article reviews the legacy of the 20th century and considers selected theoretical and practical issues likely to be prominent in the practice of career development in the decades immediately ahead.
The term career development, as used in ...