FORMATION OF CAREER CONSTRUCTION COMPETENCE IN THE FUTURE VISION REPRESENTATION

Based upon the theory of career construction we highlight problematic related to career planning. It allows personalities to stimulate themselves to construct and implement successful social and labor relations. Career construction is one of the aspects of well-being, creation the vision of the future and its representation. Career planning is formed taking into account the resource potential of the social and psychological capital of the student’s personality. Career competence is built on the ability of a person to recognise the possibilities of his(her) career capabilities in order to use them for career advancement and ability to overcome obstacles and difficulties in order to optimize career vector. The aim of the study is to give recommendations for forming students’ professional career planning competence in the university educational space. Methods: comparative and statistical analysis of empirical data obtained from a diagnostic study. The diagnostic toolkit included a method for ranking the signs of a career concept; questionnaires: life Satisfaction Index (adaptation by N.V. Panina); differential diagnostic questionnaire (DDQ) (E.A. Klimov); techniques: satisfaction of basic needs (A. Maslow); socio-psychological attitudes (O.F. Potemkin); resilience at work (C. Maddi); scale of subjective well-being; scale of psychological well-being (C. Riff); ability to self-government (N.M. Peisakhov); professional motivation (K. Zamfir in the modification of A. Rean). Processing was carried out using the SPSS 22.0 statistical software package for social sciences. Results. The concept of the competence of career planning is formulated and its role in the vision of the future is described. The authors have carried out the research of structural components of forming career construction by future specialists. Based on the data the socio-psychological portraits of different students groups were drawn up. The recommendation of possible strategy of forming up a university’s work was described. We suppose that its implementation could help to format of a students’ career planning competence through the development of parameters of a students’ social and personal characteristics and his(her) social and psychological capital.