Vocational guidance work with teenagers as a condition of their successful socialization.

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of organization of career-guidance with teenagers as the condition of their successful socialization. The idea of young man’s successful life and professional success is analyzed. The idea of training of successful and life-competent person is formulated. The analysis of different career-guidance conceptions, which determine the start position in the process of career-guidance system development, is made. The authors have distinguished the main aspects of career-guidance: social, economic, psycho-educational, medical-physiology. The authors have also studied the structural components of career-guidance (professional information, professional counselling, professional adaptation, and professional selection) and the main groups of career-guidance methods (reference and information, diagnostic, methods of moral and emotional support, methods of decision-making and formation of professional development perspectives). It is shown that the success of career-guidance depends on the comprehensive and systematic approach to the realization of the process in accordance with established quality indices. By means of career-guidance technologies, as the components of the socialization processes, pupils gain personal social competence, which promotes the development of their readiness for the active social life.

Key words:

career-guidance, professional information, professional coun-selling, professional adaptation, professional selection.