What's the difference between career and professional?

Career


Definition:

  • (n.) A race course: the ground run over.
  • (n.) A running; full speed; a rapid course.
  • (n.) General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier.
  • (n.) The flight of a hawk.
  • (v. i.) To move or run rapidly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
  • (2) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
  • (3) The purposes of this study were to assess the career development needs of entering medical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory and to examine gender differences in responses to the inventory.
  • (4) A key component of a career program should be recognition of a nurse's needs and the program should be evaluated to determine if these needs are met.
  • (5) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
  • (6) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
  • (7) But I feel I'm being true to myself in the way my career has panned out and I'm making the correct decision here.
  • (8) Discussion deals with the plurality, specificity, variability, perceived necessity, sufficiency, international utility and career significance of British postgraduate qualifications.
  • (9) Now Trump is taking the biggest gamble of his short political career.
  • (10) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
  • (11) An employee's career advancement, professional development, monetary remuneration and self-esteem often may depend upon the final outcome of the process.
  • (12) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
  • (13) But none of those calling on Obama to act carries the moral authority of Gore, who has devoted his post-political career to building a climate movement.
  • (14) In the sixth frame of the evening he sunk a magnificent long red and careered on his way to a 131 clearance to extend his lead in the match to 9-5.
  • (15) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
  • (16) Once you've invested many years in a career, figuring out how to take time out and then return to a role that's comparable to the one you left (or as comparable as you want it to be) requires more than confidence and enthusiasm - employers need to actively acknowledge the benefits of such breaks and be more receptive to those seeking to return”.
  • (17) "I'm not a career banker ... and given I was reputationally undamaged, I got a lot of calls [at that time]."
  • (18) In addition, Mayor Fitzgerald was one of 12 children, only three of whom survived to adulthood, an experience that marked his career by a particular commitment to bringing medical access for all.
  • (19) Both program participation and parental support were found to be significantly related to two measures of the students' interest in a health career.
  • (20) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.

Professional


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.
  • (a.) Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur.
  • (n.) A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
  • (2) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (3) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
  • (4) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
  • (5) Dilemmas of trust, confidentiality, and professional competence highlight the limits of professional ethical codes.
  • (6) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
  • (7) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
  • (8) Uninfected people's general rights to protection are considered, and health professionals' and authorities' rights and duties are given more detailed attention.
  • (9) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
  • (10) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (11) An employee's career advancement, professional development, monetary remuneration and self-esteem often may depend upon the final outcome of the process.
  • (12) Many would argue that patient education has been used to serve the needs of the health care professional (through compliance) rather than empowering the patient.
  • (13) With their 43-8 win , the Seahawks did more than just produce one of the most dominant performances in Super Bowl history, they gave the city of Seattle its first major professional sports win in 35 years .
  • (14) "Medical professionals have perhaps been the least involved [of all sectors] in debates and discussions around abortion, and anti-choice groups have very effectively carried out a deliberate strategy of targeting and influencing health professionals.
  • (15) Our goal is to improve the fit between social science and health practice by increasing the relevance of social science findings for the delivery of care and the training of health care professionals.
  • (16) His dedication and professionalism is world class and he deserves all the recognition he has received to date.
  • (17) Notably, while the lead actors were all professionals, most of the cast members and musicians came from Providência itself.
  • (18) This demonstrates a considerable range in surgeons' attitudes to day surgery despite its formal endorsement by professional bodies, and identifies what are perceived as the organizational and clinical barriers to its wider introduction.
  • (19) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
  • (20) Transfer of nonprofessional tasks out of nursing and reduction of tension arising from reduced responsibility of nurses for coordinating activities with ancillary departments are possible explanations for the positive relation between the presence of SUM and professional nurses' satisfaction.