Home › Words › C › careershipcareershipcareership means an approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.EtymologyFrom career + -ship, coined in the 2000s in a paper by Phil Hodkinson and Andrew C. Sparkes.nounAn approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.careerer 57% match — One who careers. vs careership →careerlike 55% match — Resembling or characteristic of a career. vs careership →careerwise 55% match — In terms of one's career (occupation, profession). vs careership →lifepath 55% match — One's path through life, as determined by the decisions one makes. vs careership →careerism 52% match — The overwhelming desire or urge to advance one's own career or social status, usually at the expense of other personal interests, social growth, or ethics. vs careership →careerist 51% match — A person who pursues the advancement of their career at the expense of other values. vs careership →aftercareer 49% match — The career that follows a particular experience or stage in a person's life; later career. vs careership →carpentership 49% match — The role or trade of a carpenter. vs careership →