Baltic Journal of Career Education and Management CAREER EDUCATION AS SELF- REALISATION SPACE CONSTRUCTION

In post-modern society where rapid economic, social and political changes take place, career planning and management becomes more and more urgent every day. The mentioned changes not necessarily are positive or providing only all-round benefit. The environment becomes turbulent, in general sense; therefore it is natural that career environment in fact, is chaotic as well. Nevertheless, career for many people is, undoubtedly, very important, because it is directly related to life qual-ity. Professional activity satisfies almost all human needs: physiological, safety, social, attainment, self-realisation, independence, autonomy and other. The efficiency of the mentioned activity and the ability of the personality to construct his career are closely related things. In the latter years, economic, demographic tendencies and technological progress are unrecog-nizably changing all labour market structure. Social changes (both positive and negative) appearing in the globalization process raise new requirements for person’s career. A man himself has to take all responsibility for his career management. Career management as a lifelong lasting process be-comes very urgent in modern society because of many reasons. First, labour market demand changes become more and more rapid. People more often have to change the characteristics of activity and organization. Second, labour market at the present moment needs employees not only being abl