Approaches to understanding career, its essence and features
The article describes opinions of various authors on interpretation of the term career, gives a review of definitions of this concept, as well reveals its intrinsic characteristics, as an analysis of the scientific works devoted to this specific problem testifies a large number of judgments referring career and its aspects. Simultaneously, it synthesizes the available information on the given topic and offers its own definition of the said term developed on the basis of analyzing various wordings of the concept career. In this context, the article specifies two main approaches that are purposefully made a focus on in the presented research, so they are highlighted in more detail. Moreover, it makes a distinction between the concepts career and professional career, formulates and presents its interpretation of these terms.