Professional identity formation as a factor of a modern university student’s career strategy planning

The paper focuses the attention of researchers on the problem of formation of modern youth’s professional identity, which, according to the authors, is directly related to the career strategy design. The authors analyze main theoretical approaches to the essence of the concepts of «professional identity», «personal professional perspective» and «career strategy». The paper presents the results of the study of modern students’ professional plans in the context of their professional career planning. The experimental sample of respondents was made from the number of full-time students of Physical, Mathematical and Technological Education Department of the Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I.N. Ulyanov. The respondents’ diagnosis was carried out by N.S. Pryazhnikov’s method «Personal professional perspective», which promotes the stimulation of the youth’s reflections on complex worldview life problems, professional choice, building a successful career and provoking individual consultations of value-semantic nature, as well as E. Shane’s method «Anchors of career», which is used to determine the leading professional motives. The results of the study were subjected to a thorough analysis. The paper contains the results of diagnostics, proving that personal professional perspective and career strategy are closely interrelated. The obtained materials can serve as a basis for further development of theoretical and practical aspects of the problem of modern youth’s career strategy design.