What’s The Difference Between Career Growth and Career Development
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Many people use the terms career growth and career development interchangeably, but they are actually two distinct concepts.
00:00 Introduction
00:33 Defining career growth and career development
01:18 Examples of career growth and career development
02:00 Summary
02:33 Outro
Today we’re going to talk about the difference between career growth and career development, a topic that I think is often misunderstood. I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. People hire me for no BS career advice globally. And they do it because I make things easier for them with job searches, hiring, managing and leading, resolving workplace issues, even career transitions.
So what’s the difference? Many people use the two terms, career growth and career development, interchangeably, but they’re actually different. Growth, career growth refers to the upward progression in terms of title, salary responsibilities. It’s about moving up the corporate ladder and achieving higher levels of success within an organization. On the other hand, career development is about expanding your skillset, knowledge, and experiences to enhance your overall career. It’s about investing in yourself or having a firm invest in you to prepare you for future opportunities, regardless of whether they come from your current employer or from a new organization.
For example, suppose you’re working as a marketing coordinator, and your goal is to become a marketing manager. This is an example of career growth. However, if you want to expand your knowledge into digital marketing and take courses to become an expert, that’s career development. Another example could be a software developer who’s working with the same company for several years. If they get a promotion to become a lead developer, this is an example of career growth. However, if they take on additional responsibilities, such as mentoring junior developers, or contributing to an open-source project, this is career development.
To sum up, growth and development, career growth and career development, are two important aspects of building a successful career. Career growth is about moving up and achieving higher levels of success within an organization or elsewhere. For example, career development is about achieving, or I should say expanding your skillset, knowledge and experiences, investing in both to help you achieve your goals and increase your overall satisfaction.
Hope you enjoy this. I’m Jeff Altman. Hope this helps you and helps you understand the difference in concepts. My website is TheBigGameHunter.us. Go there, go to the blog, go exploring. There’s a lot there to help you. If you have questions about your career that I can help with. There’s a button there that says schedule, you can schedule time for Trusted Advisor Services, as I call it, where I answer questions from people. I’d love to help.
And if you’re interested in my coaching you around job search, hiring, managing and leading better, resolving workplace issues or a career transition more than just simply a one-time event, then there’s another option where, if you’re not sure, you can schedule time for a free discovery call or you can go right into coaching. I’d love to help. And you can schedule those there.
Hope you have a terrific day. Oh, I forgot to mention. At the website, you can also find out about my video courses, books, and guides. And also I want to remind you, connect with me on Linkedin at linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter. Have a terrific day and be great!
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ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. He is hired to provide No BS Career Advice globally. That can involve job search, hiring staff, management, leadership, career transition and advice about resolving workplace issues. Schedule a discovery call at my website, www.TheBigGameHunter.us
He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with over 2500 episodes.
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