Criteria and indicators of graduates’ readiness for professional activity

Abstract

Based on the analysis of modern literature, the paper clarifies the concepts of readiness and readiness for professional activity. The considered concepts made it possible to identify criteria for technical university students readiness for future professional activity. The formulated criteria made it possible to determine students readiness indicators for future professional activities. A rating assessment of the students mathematical competence and the gross scientific product of the university were selected as indicators of readiness. The choice of these indicators is justified using statistical data of the Samara Region: gross regional product and the ratio of the selected industry wage to the average wage. The demand for technical university graduates labor is a function of the real wage rate. The results of the correlation analysis prove that the technical university graduates readiness for professional activity has a significant effect on the regional economic development degree, which affects the degree of social-economic development. The study was conducted on the basis of Samara State Technical University. The work presents pedagogical conditions for the organization of the educational process for the development of technical university students readiness for professional activity. The obtained materials can be used as the basis for further refinement of students readiness indicators for professional activities and in the content of the training.