Description Of A Career (DOAC) is a semanticvocabulary created by Ramon A. Parada to describe professional capabilities of a worker. It has been designed to be compatible with the Europeancurriculum (Europass) so those can be generated from a FOAF+DOAC file. It includes information about education, working experience, publications, spoken languages and other skills so it can be shared and processed by any application. The Semantic Web is a project to create a universal medium for information exchange by putting documents with computer-processable meaning (semantics) on the World Wide Web. ... A vocabulary is a set of words known to a person or other entity, or that are part of a specific language. ... The constitutional treaty as signed in Rome on 29 October 2004 by representatives from all EU Member States The European Union (EU) is a supranational and intergovernmental union of 25 (27 as of 1st January 2007) independent, democratic member states. ... In education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses and their contents offered by an institution such as a school or university. ... The Europass is like a passport for Europe. ... FOAF (Friend of a Friend) is a project for machine-readable modelling of homepage-like content and social networks founded by Libby Miller and Dan Brickley. ...
One can have a sporting career or a musical career, but most frequently "career" in the 20th century referenced the series of jobs or positions by which one earned one's money.
Career counseling provides one-on-one or group professional assistance in exploration and decision making tasks related to choosing a major/occupation, transitioning into the world of work or further professional training.
It is also not uncommon for adults in the late 20th/early 21st centuries to have dual or Multiple Careers, either sequentially or concurrently.
Career Planning is an interactive growth process whereby an individual continually assesses personal interests, job context and job content in order to accumulate, evaluate and discard information pertaining to the selection of a field for employment.
Career planning covers many decisions made over a long period of time, and when coupled with the scope/dynamics of employment options for pharmacy-trained graduates, the need for research concerning the effectiveness and efficiency of this process seems critical to achieve better manpower utilization and maximize personal satisfaction.
Since the thrust of this monograph is to suggest the role of fundamental research at all levels of career planning, advanced training, with an emphasis on research skills, seems essential.