Competencies important for careers of young women and men related to attitudes of their mothers and fathers

Abstract

"Currently, the young generation entering the employment market experiences various possibilities that can help them to plan and conduct their professional carriers, the possibilities which were not available before the transformation of political system. Such variety offers an outstanding chance of professional development, which did not exist before. In the same time, it occurs to be one of the reasons making the choice of occupation and life decisions connected to it so difficult. The above might often cause the lack of confidence and safety. Bańka (2008) emphasises that present-day transition from education to employment is less and less clear and more difficult to plan, so the decisions concerning the career path are deferred. Hence, it has resulted in distinguishing a new period, covering the age of 18—30 and called “rising maturity” (Bańka, 2006). Its main characteristic feature is openness to new life and professional experience. In that time, young people create their individual professional development, plan and build new models of their carriers in which the role of personal and social competencies is significantly increasing. Nowadays, such competencies are the essential condition of functional adaptation of a person to new work conditions and new organizational reality".