@article {46, title = {LIFELONG LEARNING AS A SUCCESSFUL CAREER CONDITION}, journal = {Baltic Journal of Career Education and Management}, volume = {3}, year = {2015}, month = {December/2015}, pages = {Continuous}, type = {Editorial}, chapter = {4-6}, abstract = {Today we live and work in a hardly prognosticated time of changes. The diversity of opened possibilities, information technology abundance, economic, political situation instability, social changes {\textendash} all this characterises the environment, in which we work. In the present world, information, knowledge, creativity become a crucial factor of success and competitiveness, the main economy and society developing factor. Present society is an information, creative society, in which a person has to learn practically all his life, to take over the knowledge, created in the world, to use it, to create new knowledge and to hand it over to others. Lifelong learning is necessary seeking to prepare employees to compete in global knowledge economy and to adapt to live in digital and high technology society. However, there are a lot of other important reasons. Lifelong learning also encourages: participation in community, social cohesion, more equal distribution of income and life quality getting better, which includes bigger payment, better health and bigger professional career satisfaction. }, keywords = {career management, continuous learning, dynamic environment, lifelong learning}, issn = {2345-0193}, url = {http://jml2012.indexcopernicus.com/abstract.php?icid=1215179}, author = {Dalia Augiene} }