Career pathways are small groups of occupations within a career cluster.

Occupations
within a pathway share common skills, knowledge, and interests.
(https://careerwise.minnstate.edu/careers/pathways.html)

A Career Pathway is a series of structured and connected education programs and

support services that enable students, often while they are working, to advance over
time to better jobs and higher levels of education and training.

(http://www.careerladdersproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/defining-career-
pathways-ccp.pdf)

CAREER VS JOB (https://www.diffen.com/difference/Career_vs_Job)

Career

A career is the pursuit of a lifelong ambition or the general course of progression

towards lifelong goals.

Job

Job is an activity through which an individual can earn money. It is a regular activity in
exchange of payment.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF CAREER PATHS (https://blog.careerhq.com.au/why-career-

paths-arent-always-linear/)

Linear Career Path

One would think that a linear career would be the typical career path where there is
focus on constantly moving up in power and status over time. However, that is not
always possible as sometimes linear types can become stuck in a certain position and
not progress further. In this day and age, the other career paths are increasing in
popularity.

Steady State Expert (SSE) Career Path

This type of career path is suited to those we don’t value power and status as much as
linear types and are more focused on developing their skills to become experts in their
field, being high-skilled, mobile and adaptable.
Spiral Career Path

Learning is the key source of motivation for spiral types. Even if they’ve reached 80% of
the way up the corporate ladder, they would sacrifice power and status for better
opportunities of learning as they tend to get bored once they’ve learnt as much as they
can in one career.

Transitory Career Path

Work is the least of a transitory type’s worries. They work for the purpose of having
enough money to do what they’d rather be doing instead, such as travelling and
hobbies.