Vocational and work orientations of Nizhny Novgorod school students as results of sociological survey.

Abstract

The paper discusses the problems of organizing career guidance work at schools of Nizhny Novgorod. In order to find out vocational and work attitudes of school students and assess the efficiency of career guidance work, in 2019, a sociological survey was organized. The sampling made up 790 people: senior school students and their parents. The results of the research have shown that career guidance work is assessed by the respondents as extremely poor. The authors have presented a number of advisory suggestions the use of which would allow essentially changing the formed negative situation for the better.