Abstract:
Purpose - This research focuses on the identification and analysis of key factors that
influence subjective career success, experienced by people during their careers.
Contributes to understanding the influence of various factors such as core selfevaluation
and emotional intelligence as individual’s personality traits of people,
professional ambitions and interpersonal relationships developed within the context of
employment and conflict that may arise between professional and family life of
individuals. Also the research process is flanked by a set of demographic variables in
order to construe the findings more detailed.
Approach / Design / Methodology – Firstly took place an extensive review of the
relevant literature and then our hypotheses were created. Finally, in order to check
these hypotheses, a survey was conducted. In this survey participated 148 respondents
of both sexes in the area of Attica.The survey consisted of a two-section
questionnaire, which is attached to the end of the thesis.
Findings - The main findings of the research, is the positive correlation of variables of
core self-evaluation, career aspirations and interpersonal relationships of employees
with the subjective career success. The subjective career success also positively
correlates with the hierarchical status of the individuals.
Research Limitations - The limitations of this study is the short time period during
which the survey was conducted and the limited geographical area (only in the area of
Attica) where our sample was derived.
Originality – The partition of the concept of subjective career success and the
examination of possible relationship or not for each parameter separately