Target approach in the formation of future workers’ professional readiness

Abstract

Continuous updating of labor market requirements for the results of future workers’ professional training actualizes the need to specify the process of forming professional readiness as a key quality of an employee. The purpose of the article is the procedural characteristic of the formation of professional readiness of future workers from the position of the target approach that performs two interrelated functions. The first involves the formulation of a goal that corresponds to a set of certain requirements: terminological unambiguity, conciseness, reality, diagnostics, processuality, concreteness. The second function is characterized by professional and industry specifics. It is provided by the relationship between the ideal goal and the result achievement. The outcome is formed professional readiness of future workers. This quality is diagnosed by criteria and indicators for monitoring its formation. From the target approach point of view, the content vector of the formation of future workers’ professional readiness is expressed in the procedural characteristics of this phenomenon. It is dependent on the main goal of future workers’ professional training, which is decomposed into sub-goals that determine its stages: orientational, operational and activity. The first of them is related to pricing, the objective basis of which is the requirements for labor activity fixed in professional standards. The second one is focused on goal-attainment, which includes the formation of practice-oriented skills of students. The third stage involves reflection by future workers of their own actions, their choice and evaluation from the position of expediency of application in a specific professional situation. One of the means to assess the effectiveness of the process of forming the professional readiness of students is pedagogical monitoring. It is implemented on the basis of criteria and indicators determined by the professional training goals. Accordingly, the result of mastering the orientation stage by future workers and the monitoring criterion is pre – readiness, operational – reproductive readiness, and activity- productive readiness. The results of decomposition of the professional training main goal into sub-goals, the corresponding criteria and indicators of future workers’ readiness formation are presented in a tabular version.