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"This model owns the longitudinal account of a person's work-related roles, transitions, development and direction, including how past experience, present circumstances and possible futures connect.", "in_scope": [ "Career episodes and transitions across employment, self-employment, independent practice and relevant unpaid work", "Continuity and change in responsibilities, occupational identity and demonstrated capabilities", "The person's definitions of career success, priorities and desired direction", "Current career phase, constraints and readiness for a next move", "Alternative career paths, evidence gaps and reversible exploratory actions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The person's complete identity, biography and relationships", "Detailed job descriptions, vacancy requirements and hiring workflows", "Employment contracts, payroll and benefits administration", "Course content, qualification standards and educational administration", "Organisation structures, workforce planning and labour-market conditions as independent objects" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A career connects work-related episodes over time; a job describes one position, even when that position constitutes the person's career so far.", "A career is attached to a particular person's trajectory; an occupation groups kinds of work that many people may perform.", "A career includes experience and present circumstances; a career plan represents intended future choices that may never occur.", "A career can cross employers, occupations and employment statuses while remaining one trajectory; an employment relationship is bounded by its parties and terms.", "A career selects work-relevant parts of a life history without treating every personal event as a career episode." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Career subject", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reference to the person whose trajectory is represented", "why_it_matters": "Prevents conflating a person's career with an occupation or an organisation's staffing history." }, { "name": "Episode configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Sequential roles, concurrent roles, mixed pattern, not yet established, unknown; assessed over a stated period", "why_it_matters": "Allows portfolio work and overlapping commitments without forcing a single-job chronology." }, { "name": "Current career situation", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Person-described situation, optionally including established practice, exploration, transition, interruption, re-entry or exit", "why_it_matters": "Makes next-step judgments depend on the person's actual situation rather than an assumed linear ladder." }, { "name": "Experience duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Months or years within a stated practice or responsibility, with overlap and intensity treatment declared", "why_it_matters": "Supports experience comparisons without equating elapsed time with proficiency." }, { "name": "Responsibility trajectory", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Expanding, deepening, stable, narrowing, changing direction, mixed or unknown over a stated interval", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes changes in actual work from title changes and avoids treating management promotion as the only progress." }, { "name": "Career priorities", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to person-endorsed priorities, their relative importance and dates of confirmation", "why_it_matters": "Anchors judgments of progress in the person's values rather than assumed prestige or income goals." }, { "name": "Direction alignment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Aligned, partly aligned, misaligned, contested or unassessed against named priorities at a stated date", "why_it_matters": "Makes the basis of a positive or negative career assessment explicit." }, { "name": "Transition readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Exploratory, preparing, actionable, blocked or unknown for a named transition", "why_it_matters": "Separates interest in a career move from the capability and practical freedom to make it." } ], "affordances": [ "Build an evidence-linked career account that distinguishes confirmed episodes, self-reports and unresolved chronology.", "Assess trajectory against the person's stated priorities while identifying conflicting evidence and missing information.", "Compare adjacent moves, changes of occupation, portfolio paths and continuity in the current practice.", "Identify transferable experience, development needs and practical barriers for a specific next step.", "Propose bounded experiments and review points, and update the career account when the person confirms changes." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "ilo-isco", "title": "International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08)", "url": "https://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/stat/isco/isco08/", "what_it_supports": "Occupational classification used to describe jobs that compose a career, not the career itself.", "url_status": "blocked" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "career-continuity", "name": "Career continuity", "description": "Identifies whose career is represented and how its work-related episodes connect.", "rationale": "A career must remain recognisable across changes of employer, work status and occupational identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject-and-boundaries", "name": "Subject and boundaries", "description": "Establishes the person and the limits of the career account.", "findings": [ { "id": "career-account-boundary", "name": "Career account boundary", "description": "Records whose trajectory this is and which activities the account treats as career-relevant.", "questions": [ { "text": "Whose career is represented, and how does that person describe its organising practice or direction, if any?", "kind": "definition", "id": "career-account-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which unpaid work, training, caring periods or personal projects belong in this account, and on what stated basis?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "career-account-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "episodes-and-concurrency", "name": "Episodes and concurrency", "description": "Captures the timeline without assuming uninterrupted or exclusive employment.", "findings": [ { "id": "work-episode-continuity", "name": "Work episode continuity", "description": "Connects roles, independent work and interruptions while preserving overlapping commitments and uncertain dates.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which career episodes occurred, when did they start and end, and which ran concurrently?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "work-episode-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence or person-provided account supports each episode, its responsibilities and its dates?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "work-episode-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "practice-and-development", "name": "Practice and development", "description": "Tracks what the person has actually done and how their capacity for work has changed.", "rationale": "Titles and tenure alone cannot establish career development or suitability for a different kind of work.", "layers": [ { "id": "responsibilities-and-contributions", "name": "Responsibilities and contributions", "description": "Describes the substance of work across career episodes.", "findings": [ { "id": "demonstrated-work-scope", "name": "Demonstrated work scope", "description": "Records the problems addressed, responsibility exercised and contributions attributable to the person.", "questions": [ { "text": "What work did the person perform, with what autonomy, complexity and responsibility in each relevant episode?", "kind": "definition", "id": "demonstrated-work-scope-q01" }, { "text": "Which work samples, outcomes or accounts support the claimed contributions, and what was shared with others?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "demonstrated-work-scope-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capability-change-and-transfer", "name": "Capability change and transfer", "description": "Connects learning and demonstrated experience to possible future work.", "findings": [ { "id": "career-capability-transfer", "name": "Career capability transfer", "description": "Distinguishes evidenced development from assumed competence and tests relevance to a named destination.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows capabilities gaining depth, breadth or currency across the person's career?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "career-capability-transfer-q01" }, { "text": "For the proposed next role or practice, which capabilities transfer and which require fresh demonstration or development?", "kind": "action", "id": "career-capability-transfer-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "direction-and-success", "name": "Direction and success", "description": "Captures the person's desired relationship to work and the criteria used to judge progress.", "rationale": "The same career move may advance one person's priorities and undermine another's.", "layers": [ { "id": "priorities-and-tradeoffs", "name": "Priorities and tradeoffs", "description": "Makes preferences and acceptable compromises explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "person-defined-success", "name": "Person-defined success", "description": "Records endorsed priorities without presuming that pay, rank or occupational continuity defines success.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the person currently want from their career, including income, mastery, impact, autonomy, stability or time outside work?", "kind": "definition", "id": "person-defined-success-q01" }, { "text": "Which tradeoffs are acceptable, and which conditions are non-negotiable for the next career decision?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "person-defined-success-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "trajectory-assessment", "name": "Trajectory assessment", "description": "Evaluates present direction against dated, explicit criteria.", "findings": [ { "id": "progress-and-misalignment", "name": "Progress and misalignment", "description": "Records where the trajectory supports or conflicts with the person's priorities and distinguishes self-assessment from agent interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Over what period, and against which person-endorsed criteria, does the career appear to be progressing or becoming misaligned?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "progress-and-misalignment-q01" }, { "text": "Which assessments come from the person, which from external feedback and which are agent inferences?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "progress-and-misalignment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "transitions-and-feasibility", "name": "Transitions and feasibility", "description": "Explains career changes and the conditions governing possible next moves.", "rationale": "A plausible career direction is not necessarily accessible, affordable or desirable under present circumstances.", "layers": [ { "id": "transition-history", "name": "Transition history", "description": "Preserves the context of moves, interruptions and returns.", "findings": [ { "id": "transition-context", "name": "Transition context", "description": "Records reported reasons and consequences of changes without inferring motivation from chronology alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "What prompted each material career change, and how much choice did the person report having?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transition-context-q01" }, { "text": "How did each change affect work content, continuity, responsibility and alignment with the person's priorities?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "transition-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "constraints-and-enablers", "name": "Constraints and enablers", "description": "Connects a particular career option to practical requirements and available support.", "findings": [ { "id": "next-move-feasibility", "name": "Next-move feasibility", "description": "Identifies relevant limits and enabling conditions while linking detailed facts to their owning models.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the proposed move, which income needs, time commitments, location limits, entry requirements or support relationships materially affect feasibility?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "next-move-feasibility-q01" }, { "text": "Which requirements are verified, which remain assumptions and what must be checked before treating the move as actionable?", "kind": "action", "id": "next-move-feasibility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "options-and-career-action", "name": "Options and career action", "description": "Maintains candidate paths and turns uncertainty into bounded next steps.", "rationale": "A career model must support decisions without presenting a speculative future as an established trajectory.", "layers": [ { "id": "candidate-paths", "name": "Candidate paths", "description": "Keeps alternative futures distinct from actual experience and committed plans.", "findings": [ { "id": "career-option-comparison", "name": "Career option comparison", "description": "Compares specific paths using the person's priorities, demonstrated experience and relevant external evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which paths are under consideration, including staying in the current practice, and what would each change about the person's work?", "kind": "definition", "id": "career-option-comparison-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports each path's accessibility and fit, and which expected benefits remain speculative?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "career-option-comparison-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "experiments-and-review", "name": "Experiments and review", "description": "Defines learning actions and conditions for revisiting career choices.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-career-experiment", "name": "Bounded career experiment", "description": "Records a limited action that tests a career assumption, its permitted scope and the decision it will inform.", "questions": [ { "text": "What bounded step, such as a work sample, short project or informational conversation, could test the most consequential 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Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a career, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a career, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a career is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a career, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a career, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a career is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a career passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a career between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a career, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a career, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a career is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a career, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a career is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a career, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a career, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a career is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a career says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a career contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a career, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a career, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a career is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a career and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a career, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a career, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a career is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What career studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does career take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does career establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where career is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark career as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place career, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a career came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a career and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a career, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a career, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a career is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a career is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a career, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a career, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a career is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }