PLACE OF NON-FORMAL EDUCATION IN THE CAREER BUILDING PROCESS

Non-formal education taken up over the entire professional life is one of the basic ways to build an individual career, as well as significant factor of improvement quality of human resources in general, which exerts ever increasing impact upon development of countries, especially in global economy conditions. The basic objective of the work we conducted was to perform comparative analysis and to identify changes, if any, in education in the non-formal system in Poland in years 2006 and 2011, in the area of: percentage of persons making use of education in this system, age of persons being trained, educational institutions, number of hours dedicated to education, and reasons to take up education and fields of education.