career aspirations
Hopes for work
Career aspirations are the professional goals and ambitions someone hopes to achieve over time.
The phrase typically appears in job interviews, applications, and self-help contexts: What are your career aspirations?
Unlike immediate job objectives, career aspirations suggest longer-term vision—where someone sees themselves in five or ten years, what kind of work they find meaningful, or what level of success they're aiming for.
- dream jobPerfect occupation imagined
- promotionRank increase or publicity
- climbing the ladderProgressing through hierarchy
- growthIncrease in size
- ambitionDesire for achievement
goals · mentorship · flexibility · skills · education · learning · leadership · entrepreneurship · big break · purpose · financial security · recognition · advancement · upward mobility · glass ceiling · success · stability · reputation
- Career Planningguidance counselor, dream job
- motivationmotivation, drive, motivate, inspire, encouragement
career aspirationslack of ambition
Absence of drive
career stagnation · settling · giving up · aimlessness · directionlessness
career aspirationswork-life balance
Managing career and home
leisure pursuits · downshifting · opting out · family goals · relationship goals