Professional Self- Determination of Schoolchildren: Analysis of the Results of Professional Choice of Schoolchildren by Managers and Assessment of Their Effectiveness
https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.95.2.002
Abstract
Professional self-determination of schoolchildren is a process aimed at identifying their own interests, abilities and goals in choosing their future professional activity. School education involves creating certain conditions for this choice to be made. At present, the state puts forward certain requirements for general education organizations in matters of organizing career guidance work. The purpose of this article is to assess the effectiveness of the professional choice of schoolchildren by senior employees of general education organizations of the Sverdlovsk region.
In the conducted study, the empirical method was a questionnaire survey. The study involved 886 senior employees of general education organizations from all municipalities located in the Sverdlovsk region.
According to the results of the study, senior employees highly appreciated the need and importance of the process of professional self-determination of schoolchildren, noting its significance for a successful career and personal development. In schools of the Sverdlovsk region, various types of career guidance events are held to help students make the right professional choice. When analyzing the effectiveness of professional self-determination of schoolchildren, the heads of educational organizations give preference to formal characteristics (entered/not entered, to a university/college/technical school) rather than to a more in-depth analysis, including the effectiveness of profiling or the quality of career guidance work. Thus, the results of the study indicate the importance of conducting career guidance events in schools, analyzing the results of professional self-determination of students and the need for further efforts to improve the effectiveness of this process.
About the Author
K. L. Isakova
Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Isakova Kseniya Leonidovna — 2nd year Postgraduate Student
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Isakova K.L. Professional Self- Determination of Schoolchildren: Analysis of the Results of Professional Choice of Schoolchildren by Managers and Assessment of Their Effectiveness. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2025;(2(95)):18-30. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.95.2.002
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