Career Management in the Knowledge-Based Organization: From Competence in the Career to Career Capital

Knowledge, which delineates new career perspectives, is a source of competitive advantage. The way in which this article presents and interprets the career puts stress on individual learning: the accumulation of knowledge by the individual over the course of experience linked with professional work, thus becoming a basis for competence in the individual career. The sum of competencies making up the career of employed staff is the career capital of the organization, understood in a multidimensional manner, gathered and utilized by that organization within itself more broadly than is the case in current practice.