CareerConcepts Model

Over 30 years ago, researching career dynamics, Professor Michael Driver and Dr. Kenneth Brousseau identified four main career preferences.

most stable and historically dominant view of a successful career a lifelong commitment to a profession with which one identifies continually mastering the knowledge and skills of the profession

focussed on rapid movement up the "corporate ladder" career success means gaining increased levels of responsibility and authority

a less traditional view where one discovers one's career periodic lateral changes of occupational fields developing broader skills and new applications of previous experience

the most change-oriented and least conventional view the exact content of the job is less important - rather it is about adapting to new challenges

Underlying these career preferences are distinct career motives.