ABSTRACT
As Chapter 2 has indicated, there is no shortage of ideas about influences on career. Some are supported by research; many have been incorporated into formal theory. This chapter takes another look at these ideas, and reconfigures them. The configuration is as a progressively learned sequence of career-development capacities and behaviours. Progression is important for two related reasons: first, it identifies what is ‘basic’ and what is ‘developed’ in people’s career experience; second, it indicates how the more basic experiences prepare the ground (or fail to prepare the ground) for later development.
