Perception of individual career management according to generations: Adana province case

The worldhas enteredinto a rapidchange. The changehas accelerated with the spread of technology and the Internet, the world has become smaller and globalized.Especiallyin recent years, this pace of change has increased even more.According to the developments of the period in which people live, changes occur in their personalities, behavioral patterns and characteristics.Technological, economic, political, etc.of the periods people are affected by external events.Within this interaction, people's expectations and desires regarding their individual careers undergo changes. The aim of the study is to reveal whether people's perceptions of career change according to the generations they belong to.The studycovers the employees in the enterprises operating in Adana province. The first part of the study contains career and career management concepts, the second part contains the concept of generation and the differentiating characteristics of generations, the third part contains the results obtained in survey studies and analyses conducted with employees in enterprises operating in Adana, the evaluation of the results obtained in the fourth part, results and recommendations.Within the scope of the research, significant differences in career perceptions were found between generations and according to other demographic variables. Keywords: Career, Generations