The document discusses special challenges in career management, including plateaued employees, socialization and orientation, dual-career paths, plateauing, skills obsolescence, balancing work and life, coping with job loss, and dealing with older workers. It focuses on plateaued employees, defining them, the types, sources and symptoms of plateauing, and the role of HR managers in addressing plateaued employees. It also notes that companies should help employees balance work and personal lives or they may leave for other jobs.