Professional orientation and proforientologic competences concerning vocational self-determination and career development of young students

Abstract

The problem of vocational schools’ students training to build a path for their career development is

stipulated by the growth of Ukraine’s market economy and its integration into the global market.

Increased competition in the labor market dictates the necessity to form and develop in young students

the fundamentally new personal features connected with their entering into the world of work and with

fulfillment of a professional career. One of pedagogical definitions characterizing such personal feature

is a professional orientation competence. Currently, this definition is on the stage of its conceptual

formation and its characteristics are mainly descriptive.

The analysis of features of professional development of pupils of professional educational institutions

allows to come to conclusion that substantial filling of definitions "professional self-determination" and

"professional career" (to be exact – "career development") are correlative. It gives the grounds to

consider a problem of formation of professional orientation competence of pupils of professional

educational institutions through a prism of a problem of their professional self-determination. Psycho-

pedagogical support of the process of students' career guidance competence formation involves

appropriate vocational teachers’ competence mastering but of a higher level. It makes the component of

their professional competence and, in our opinion, it is reasonable to characterize it as proforientologic

competence, since its purpose is to provide psychological competent support for professional life of a

human from the beginning of differentiation of professional interests and inclinations to professional

biography completion. A good number of investigations consider the suchlike teachers’ competence to

be professiographic one. To our mind, the latter considerably narrows its subject sphere, so far as the

task of professiography is to describe (professiograms mapping) and to classify the existing professions

according to different (technological, economic, educational, medical and psychological) criteria.

From the standpoint of a competence approach, formation of professional...