Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each feature by whether it belongs to a CAREER system or a POSITION system.
Groups: Career system · Position system
- Terms depending on the contract for the post
- Recruitment openly for each vacancy
- Movement by applying for another post
- Entry to a corps for a working life
- Movement governed by internal corps rules
- Very high security of tenure
Hints
- One system recruits people, the other recruits for posts.
- Spain belongs to the first family.
Show the answer
Career system: Entry to a corps for a working life, Movement governed by internal corps rules, Very high security of tenure
Position system: Recruitment openly for each vacancy, Movement by applying for another post, Terms depending on the contract for the post
Why
The two columns are coherent designs rather than good and bad practice. A career system buys independence and institutional memory at the cost of flexibility; a position system buys the reverse. Most real systems now mix them, which produces its own problems of consistency.
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