Factors Influencing Women's Career Change

The paper deals with the results of research on the factors influencing women's successful careers. The research aim is to identify the most important women's skills, personal qualities and the factors that affect women's career change or career choice. A questionnaire survey of women was carried out to achieve the aim. The number of respondents was 1087. The survey found the most important influencing factors in women's career development were the education level, the number of jobs in the place of residence and the psychological climate at the job. The research found that the most essential personal qualities were as follows: purposefulness, enterprise and insistence, ability to organise one's own work and abilities to work in a team and make decisions independently. The research will contribute to the understanding of the factors influencing women's successful careers and their role in cases of women's career change or unemployment. Career counsellors and personnel selection professionals may use the findings in their career counselling.