The document discusses three directions a career can take: vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. A vertical career involves climbing the hierarchy within or across companies through promotions. A horizontal career focuses on accumulating knowledge and skills within the same role. A diagonal career involves taking on new roles and responsibilities within the same company through opportunities that arise. The document provides examples of each type of career path and advises readers to consider their options when advancing their career.

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Tips on Advancing your Career when you see
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2. • Over the past 20 years, the attitude towards the very concept of "career" has changed.
• The word "careerist" meant "bad man," and in general, everything related to career had a negative
connotation.
• However, the 2000s edition, the Big Dictionary of Economics, already reflects a shift in the public
consciousness:
• Highlighting three "career" directions: in a vertical direction, in a horizontal direction, and a diagonal direction.
Introduction
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3. • Vertical direction
An upright job implies a climb along the hierarchy - and not necessarily in one company, in one business or field of
activity. A careerist, like a rock-climber, is always invited by height. With each rise, with each jump, the status
changes, and with it the money, the name of the position sounds steeper and a salary higher. Progress is apparent
- therefore the very concept of "career" is associated with a vertical career.
• Horizontal direction
A horizontal career has many advantages. For example, they can lose a job from any position, and they cannot
transfer the skill, professionalism, or knowledge by order. If a vertical career often depends on the circumstances
and people with whom you need to build relationships, then a horizontal direction does a job almost
independently.
• Diagonal direction
Diagonal career develops within one company. Such a job does not involve forcing - "higher and higher and
higher." A person moves forward progressively, taking advantage of opening opportunities. He works in his place;
he likes his company or field of activity; there are roots in the organization; he is interested there and feels
comfortable.
Types of career
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4. A career in a vertical direction is upward mobility,
wage increase. Career achievements are reflected
even on a business card; others can see it and in
response to hearing: "Ooh! Grow up! "
A career in the horizontal direction is the accumulation
of knowledge and skills. Sometimes only a narrow
circle of people knows about success; sometimes
those are us just who knows.
There is something about a career in a diagonal
direction from both: a new position, and professional
growth. Take a surgeon, for example. He can set
himself various tasks: to become, for example, the
deputy minister of health or the head of a department
(vertical career), merely a high-quality surgeon
(horizontal), chief doctor or leader of a department in
the hospital where he works (diagonal).
How to choose your career?
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