Career and educational trajectory of Bachelors of Applied Informatics at a regional university: aspects of design and implementation

Abstract

This article analyzes a complex set of personnel training problems for the digital economy. The authors note that the mechanical increase in budget places in the system of higher and secondary vocational education is not enough to provide the IT segment of the labor market in Russia, which is related both to the quality of training of specialists and to the career expectations of graduates. The author’s definition of the student’s career and educational trajectory is given. As one of the possible solutions, an integrative-micromodular approach is proposed, the key element of which is the cooperation of the student, the university and potential employers in designing and implementing an effective career and educational trajectory for each student. The authors note significant differences in the goals, resources and strategies of federal, national and regional universities, while focusing on the latter. Using the example of bachelor’s degree training in the field of Applied Informatics 09.03.03, the issues of work and part-time work of students during the study period, the influence of this factor on the career and educational trajectory are analyzed in depth. Examples of the implementation of micromodules «career stage» in the disciplines of «Programming», «Databases», «Information Systems Design», «Software Engineering», «Data Analysis», «Cloud services», «Web programming» are considered. The strategy of using psychosemantics methods for recognizing and clarifying the image of a future profession, professional self-reflection and, possibly, professional trials is described.