The Analysis of Professional Strategies of the Higher and Vocational Education Organizations Graduate Students as the Future Subjects of the Labor Market

In a dynamic labor market there are higher requirements to young specialists on planning and managing their careers, therefore, the relevance of the study the professional strategy as process characteristics increases, which determines the purpose and means of its achievements in the professional field. Currently, the subject field of study of professional strategies is formed at the intersection of various Social Sciences, accumulating the results of foreign and domestic studies devoted to the study of the substantive and instrumental aspects of strategies. The study is aimed at analyzing the characteristics of professional strategies of Higher and Vocational Educational graduate students. The information was collected using the author's questionnaire and psychodiagnostic techniques ("Noetic orientations test (SZhO)" and "Social and Psychological Adaptation (SPA)") to identify the various components of professional strategies and the factors determining the preference of active and passive types of strategies. The participants of the survey were the graduate students from higher (undergraduate level) and vocational educational organizations of Smolensk and Ussuriysk, enrolled in various fields of study (n = 350). According to the analysis of these groups, it was found that professional strategies of students, regardless of the type of education received, are characterized by low awareness and contradiction: a combination of active and passive strategies. The analysis was conducted to determine the relationship between the level of adaptation of students and the type of preferred strategy, during which it was found that students with a high level of social and psychological adaptation are much more likely to have active strategies. It was also determined that the preference for active or passive professional strategies is more influenced by the psychological characteristics of the subjects than gender, material situation, direction of training.