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CAREER DAYS AS A FORM OF ASSISTANCE IN PROFESSIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS // Pedagogical Review. 2019. Issue 1 (23). P. 78-83

This article describes the positive experience of the implementation of the regional career guidance event “Career Days at TSPU” (hereinafter referred to as the Event or Career Days at TSPU), which is one of the forms of promoting professional self-determination and employment of students of Tomsk State Pedagogical University. The key idea of this Event is to create a platform for meetings of employers and young specialists – graduates of TSPU and receive the latter, in the process of direct communication, specific information that motivates the development of a professional (pedagogical) trajectory. The paper describes the stages of the “Career Days in TSPU”, which were developed taking into account the understanding of employment as a process of finding suitable work, preparing for it and applying for this work: the first stage is the practical training “Resume Writing”; the second – inter-faculty events “Professional Navigator”; the third – meetings of senior students with the heads of municipal education authorities of the Tomsk region; the fourth stage is an open general university event “Fair of Pedagogical Vacancies”. The article also presents the principles of implementation (multi-entity, regionality, activity, individualization) and a key mechanism for implementing the Event, which is the interaction between the employment assistance department of the TSPU and the career guidance council, which includes representatives from all faculties of the university. The organizational, regulatory, methodical, informational, and staffing support for “Career Days at TSPU” is carried out by the administrative interaction of these structures. The article completed the presentation of the results of the implementation of the “Career Days in TSPU” for the 2017–2018 academic year, which is based on the opinions of the participating students.

Keywords: career-oriented event, professional self-determination, employment

COMPONENTS OF PROFESSIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION OF A PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENT // Pedagogical Review. 2020. Issue 3 (31). P. 36-47

The article presents a look into the motives and factors of the professional choice as one of the characteristics of students’ professional self-determination. Material for this research was obtained from researches of the 1990s by the scientists E. A. Klimova, N. V. Kuzmina, V. A. Slastyonin, G. N. Pashkevich and from questionnaires of first-year students at Tomsk State Pedagogical University in October, 2019. The research was carried out by means of theoretical methods (analysis of the scientific literature and statistical data of the 2019 admission campaign) and empirical methods (student questioning). This article is compiled to reveal to the pedagogical alumni the factors influencing the professional choice of first-year students who became the participants of the research in 2019 with comparison to researches of such type carried out in the 1990s. As a result of this research the following conclusions were drawn: obtaining a pedagogical profession is the most attractive for young females; inner-state and international educational migration of prospective students remain; the pedagogical experience prospective students have before they enter a university help them to realize what major to choose at a pedagogical university; contemporary first-year students have intrinsic motives, but have more extrinsic motives. Comparing with researches by V. A. Slastyonin of the 1990s there increased the per cent of students who put forward as the factors that influenced their choice of a pedagogical university such factors as that of willing to get higher education and that of circumstances, these results allow to confirm current necessity to help students with their professional self-determination while they study at a university.

Keywords: professional choice, young students, bifurcation point, surveying students, pre-university pedagogical experience, prospective students’ recruiting