Formation of the image of the profession in the minds of future border guard officers in the context of vocational education.

Abstract

The article is aimed at analyzing the modern approaches towards the problem of forming the image of the profession to future border guard officers in the process of education and training at the National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. The results obtained provide information on cadets’ diverse ideas about their future profession and significant variety of controversial perceptions of themselves as subjects of professional activity.The results also showed challenges of the process of education and training as each group of cadets requires differentiation in the professional training process.