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A retrospective view from traditional to boundaryless career and career success

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  • Filiz Karakus

    (Independent Researcher, Istanbul, Turkey)

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An increasingly dynamic career context has changed the nature of careers and led to the emergence of more autonomous and self-directed boundaryless careers. The common idea in different forms of boundaryless careers is mobility. Psychologically and physically mobile individuals start to manage their own careers in terms of their personal pursuits. In such a career environment, the nature of career success has also changed. The importance of subjective career success has been emphasized more than objective career success because only individuals themselves can meaningfully define and assess their career success with reference to their own self-defined standards, needs, and values in such an unstable environment. With the transmission of career responsibility to the individuals, the need to develop career competencies as knowing why competencies, knowing whom competencies, and knowing how competencies emerge in order to survive and become successful. This study reviews career concept and the new perspectives as a boundaryless career within a constantly changing environment which makes it impossible to become successful unless gaining new competencies and survival methods and the new perspectives on career success with a growing increase in subjective career success instead of objective career success. Key Words:Boundaryless career, Physical Mobility, Psychological mobility, Career Competencies, Career Success, Career management

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  • Filiz Karakus, 2021. "A retrospective view from traditional to boundaryless career and career success," International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), Center for the Strategic Studies in Business and Finance, vol. 10(3), pages 65-81, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:rbs:ijbrss:v:10:y:2021:i:3:p:65-81
    DOI: 10.20525/ijrbs.v10i3.1131
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