career orientations

Relevance: university graduates are expected to meet permanently changing requirements of the modern labor market in connection with their competency, which includes both professional and personal skills. Such context actualizes the research issue, devoted to academic motivation as a predictor of career orientations in diff erent groups of university students, namely in groups of students with diff erent job involvement, i.e. those who have real work experience and those who do not have such experience.

The research on the social and psychological factors of workforce migration is of relevance due to the increase in labour migration in Russia. Another factor that makes the problem relevant is the necessity to understand how migration intentions and decision of a person to migrate are formed. The purpose of the research is to study the correlation between career orientations and migration intentions as well as to justify the fact that the level of one’s satisfaction with their social and fi nancial status has a moderating infl uence on this correlation.

Special features of career orientations of future engineers are described; they define the vector of professional formation and the level of professional development. The results of the empirical research are presented, the research was carried out on the representative sample (N = 82, M = 20,30 years, students of 2 - 6 years of study of National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» with different technical specialties) with application of the diagnostic tools: the method of «The questionnaire of self-organization activity by E. Yu.