Career and career guidance beyond the Euro-Atlantic culture

Abstract

Building a career track is a lonely life task in Europe. Here in Hungary, from our highly individualized culture, oriented mainly towards the Euro-Atlantic, it seems even more so that individuals today have not only the opportunity but the "right" to define themselves, to put their own career and career goals ahead of priorities set by others. In Europe, urbanisation is strong, community spaces have been transformed and depersonalised, and the career guidance function of the community has also changed. In this article, I present a brief global outlook, especially those areas of the world that lie outside the Euro-Atlantic orientation. Although globalisation is also powerful in career guidance, the cultural-social vectors that give direction and proportion to career construction can still be seen. The article presents certain countries of Asia, Africa, Arabia, and Central and South America as examples where traces of career counselling theories and practices typical of the given countries can be found, which are characterised by career building interpreted from the perspective of the community, the collective, and the presentation of the importance of livelihood planning.