Contemporary Career Civil Servant Myths: The Romanian Case?

The idea of career success is accompanied often by false beliefs, myths or simply excuses when we find the path is not the right one. Our society values the people who make careers or employees who are building a successful professional identity. Sometimes, however, the road is confused with the destination - it's good to remember that making career being careerist is actually an end in itself. This paper wants to describe the perceptions about career myths regarding the contemporary Romanian civil servant. Many valuable ideas are described in this paper and need to be taken into consideration. In the literature and practice of public human resource management circulate many myths about career planning and development and career management. Generally speaking, explicit tests relating to perceptions about career realities can be subjective, can be oriented in the wrong direction and can lead to a misleading picture. They can sometimes block career planning and development and also career management.