Cybal-Michalska, Agnieszka2015-07-022015-07-022014Studia Edukacyjne, 2014, nr 32, s. 31-47978-83-232-2837-01233-6688http://hdl.handle.net/10593/13410This article presents a discourse about the subject of careers; identity of youth in a professional career. The increase of roles ascribed to careers and the ability to plan, manage and monitor one’s career in the lifelong perspective are the most important requirements. Career capital comprises of values that create career competence and that are useful in its constitution and development. There is no doubt that while analyzing individual paths of a career development, one should include a wide spectrum of an individual’s determinants, as well as, one should examine semantic meanings that a subject ascribes to the reality in order to interpret and understand one’s past and new feelings and experiences. Issues of identity crystallize the problem of trajectory of individual career and the construction of a subject’s professional identity.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesscareer developmentprofessional identitycareer capitalmaturity in careers“career portfolio”career competence modelcareer of youthArtykułhttps://doi.org/10.14746/se.2014.32.3