With marketplace changing and organizations transforming in today’s cut throat competition, the labor market has realized an even greater shift. The career system of employees in changing organizations has gone through a huge transition.
Ever changing process of restructuring, often accompanied by redundancies, has shattered traditional bureaucracies. Today’s turbulent and complex business environment has resulted in ambiguous and contradictory career signals. Individuals, perhaps in self-defense, are becoming correspondingly ambivalent about their desires and plans for career development.
The youth today is witnessing blurring boundaries in many facets of life. As a result, their careers have become multidirectional. An important determinant of career success in the contemporary career era has given birth to one such career perspective called “Protean career” that serves as a powerful career development strategy.
This paper is an attempt to throw light on the new career dimension as a suggestive career strategy for employees to manage their career aspirations and to manifest a trend in career systems with implications for individuals and organizations.
Keywords: Career Development, Protean Career, Career Management, Career Development Strategy, Human Resource Development.
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