career path
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- noun
- /kəˈrɪr pæθ/
- As she gained experience, her career path became clearer, leading her to a managerial role.
- choose a career path
- defined career paths
- vocational career path
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Watch on YouTubeWhen we look at our lives and our career path, it generally goes like this.
- When we look at our lives and our career path, it generally goes like this.
- And she said, I don't really see a career path for you.
- And all these things then make you stuck in a career path.
- They're facing trouble getting jobs that offer some kind of career path or growth.
- Can you describe a time you felt lost in your career path?
- And so that that eventually led me on my career path.
- And, and so anyway, that's, that's how you figure out the job or the career path.
- The reasoning being is because a they both have very similar career paths.
- So YouTube is, it's a really incredible thing in the sense that like in no other career path can you get such immediate feedback.
- And so the way Elia did things, you know, people say things like, well, these people didn't go to fashion school and there is a career path for everyone.
- So if you're life coaching someone so they feel like they have a need, like, what's my career path, right?
Examples
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Creating unique career paths has not always occurred in comfortable spaces for these women.
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Such research should expand the knowledge base on career path issues faced by newly minted graduates of advanced STEM programs.
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When we look at our lives and our career path, it generally goes like this.
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I wonder what her career path is.
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In other words, they choose a career path that will enable them to have children.
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And I would love to follow in your career path, in your footsteps.
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Is this a basic overview of many of the career paths available within fashion?
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Pursue that career path in finance, create that foundation of financial stability.
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Our career paths sort of went in different directions.
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In today's changing healthcare environment, career paths are also changing.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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The path a person's work life takes over time
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A series of job levels a person moves up to reach higher positions
How Planned
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the sequence of jobs and positions in someone's working life' is directly and predictably composed from 'career' (work/job history) + 'path' (a course or direction). This compound follows a common, transparent noun+noun composition found across many languages and should be readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The compound noun career path comes from the simple image of a path you follow in your work life. The word career means your jobs and the word path means a route, so the phrase pictures moving step by step through a series of jobs and means 'the sequence of jobs and roles' someone has during their working life.