What is a Career Plateau?
Many people experience the situation at one point during their career of becoming 'stuck' with little or no movement up the career ladder, either for professional or personal reasons. The main cause of this is usually the pyramidal structure of organizations, which has fewer positions than aspirants at each higher level of the organizational ladder. The way most United Nations organisations are structured is a good example of this. The 'plateauing' of one's career is often accompanied, and thus identified, by feeling of boredom, frustration, tension, loss of enthusiasm, lack of team effort or lack of commitment.
•A time of perceived or actual professional stagnation