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Career Growth vs Career Progression: What's the Difference?

Career progression often refers to movement through roles, levels, titles, or increasing organizational responsibility. Career growth is broader.

Career growth can include

Deeper expertise; broader capability; greater responsibility; stronger judgment; leadership; new skills; wider influence; meaningful projects; greater contribution.

A healthy career review should ask both

"Where am I going?" and "What am I becoming capable of?" A professional can grow without receiving a new title. Promotion can be one form of growth — it is not the only form.

Your career is more than your current job title. Understand your natural gifts, skills and values, then use them to make more intentional career decisions.

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