CAREER GUIDANCE WORK AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS STUDYING ON IT SPECIALTIES

Abstract

This article is aimed at establishing the features of the organization and conduct of career guidance activities among students of higher educational establishments of the second level of accreditation, majoring in IT specialties. The analysis of the domestic pedagogical scientific and methodical literature showed that the scientific opinion is mostly focused on the issues of career guidance of students of secondary schools. In practice the implementation of the existing theoretical achievements in relation to the IT sphere remains at a fairly low level. As a result, non-pedagogical factors have a predominant influence on the professional choice of students: public opinion, ideas about the profession formed by the media and television, and so on. In accordance with that the priority tasks of career guidance are allocated, which should be solved in the process of training specialists in IT specialties.
 In the course of the research, a survey of students of Ukrainian colleges majoring in IT specialties was conducted. The survey allowed outlining the motivational portrait of an average student in terms of the dynamics of his change in the learning process. The average level of awareness of the choice of profession is revealed. There is a lack of clear vision of the prospects for further personal professional development in the field of information technology and the desire to continue the education in the chosen specialty in higher educational establishments of the III or IV levels of accreditation. It is established that the level of awareness of prospects in the IT sphere is specified not only by the variability of the initial motivations for college entering in the chosen specialty, but also the peculiarities of the IT sphere.
 The obtained data allowed formulating and substantiating the basic principles of career guidance work among college students and the tasks that should be performed for its improvement and overall optimization. The mechanisms of career guidance work focused on the education of a qualified IT specialist with a high level of motivation for self-development are substantiated. The need to increase efforts to form a conscious competent choice of specialization within the chosen IT specialty for more effective development of professional skills is specially focused on. Additionally, the influence of the features of academic groups and individual characteristics of students on the factors of application of career guidance measures is revealed.