Career management

Career management is the combination of structured planning and the active management choice of one's own professional career. Career management is also defined as the use of adaptive or planned strategies to align with an individual's personal career interests or orientation, as well as the application of successive tactics to maintain and advance that career.

Andrew Grove defined career management as:

Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You are in competition with millions of similar businesses: millions of other employees all over the world. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves. It is your responsibility to protect this personal business of yours from harm and to position it to benefit from the changes in the environment. Nobody else can do that for you.