Abstract:

Career is a concept that encompasses the work that individuals do throughout their working life, and the developments and advancements in business life. One of the most important features of the traditional career understanding, in which the career of the individual is limited to the conditions of the organization, is that the individual starts a job in an organization, works in the same organization throughout his entire career and retires. In the traditional structure, employees act dependent on the organization and mostly expect career orientation from the organization. Today, increasing competition at both local and global levels, and dynamic changes in socio-economic structure and technology have paved the way for the career approach to gain a quality outside of traditional patterns. With the change in the traditional career understanding, the responsibility of directing the career has passed on to the individuals. Along with this change in career understanding, new career approaches show that today's career understanding has also changed direction. One of these new career approaches is the Kaleidoscope Career Model, which has started to take an important place in foreign literature and is defined as a metaphor. According to this model, career is organized according to the individual's own living conditions, and is shaped by the individual's choices about his life and his own values. In the kaleidoscope career model, three parameters are defined, namely authenticity, balance and challenge, which are active throughout the lives of individuals. These parameters change according to the life conditions of the individual and shape the career decision of the individual. Career profiles of female and male employees are shaped according to these three parameters. In line with these explanations, the aim of this study is to theoretically examine the kaleidoscope career model, which is a new career approach, based on the importance of career in working life and to contribute to the literature on this subject.

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