The phrase "advancing her career" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's efforts or actions aimed at improving their professional status or opportunities.
Example: "She took several courses to enhance her skills, all in the name of advancing her career."
Alternatives: "furthering her career" or "promoting her career".
The public image she'd created tough, decisive, analytical had been a powerful instrument in advancing her career.
While Louise pursues the relatively uninteresting goals of flirting with strangers, swilling gin (during Prohibition) and advancing her career, Cora keeps busy tugging at the reader's heart.
Some may have been interpreted as a demotion or something lower, but ended up advancing her career, and I think that's a lesson that is great for all women to kind of realize that there are all different paths to finding that professional happiness.
Julie Chen of "The Talk" shared a big secret Wednesday on the show: She had plastic surgery done on her eyes in the hope of advancing her career.
She enjoyed her work and even considered abandoning her love for dance altogether by becoming a nurse practitioner and advancing her career in health care.
Fiorina comes across as the classic vanity candidate, someone whose quest for office seems more about advancing her career than serving the voters.
Vanessa Redgrave managed to advance her career despite her controversial outspokenness (in support of the Palestinians, for example), but Corin struggled.
Giulio used his connections in the intellectual world of Venice to showcase his daughter and to advance her career.
"I think what most people find offensive is Senator Warren lying about her heritage to advance her career," Sanders said.
"I think what most people find offensive is Senator Warren lying about her heritage to advance her career," she said.
