ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses careers in work organizations and occupations, for purposes of economy. Organizations built around some particular kind of work or situation at work tend to be characterized by recurring patterns of tension and of problems. Recruitment is typically regarded as occurring only at the beginning of a career, where the occupationally uncommitted are bid for, or as something which happens only when there is deliberate effort to get people to commit themselves. Positions in organizations are being vacated continually through death and retirement, promotion and demotion. Replacements may be drawn from the outside or from within the organization. The student of careers must also be sensitized to discover what training is essential or highly important to the passage from one status to another. Schooling occurs most conspicuously during the early stages of a career and is an essential part of getting people committed to careers and prepared to fill positions.
