Effective instruments for professional orientation of school students (based on the experience of the Republic of Karelia)

the article deals with the analysis of the results of the II Republican professional orientation lesson «Live, learn, work in Karelia!» with the use of the Internet-portal «My Career». The Internet-portal provides for interactive professional testing, by the results of which the user may learn about the recommended activities and professions, suitable for their abilities and much-on-demand on the labor market of the Republic of Karelia. The portal presents professional diagrams, containing key characteristics for professions, and the site navigation helps to find out where to recieve relevant education and get a job in line with the selected profession. The efficiency of a lesson is reached through a tight lesson time schedule, consolidations of professional effort and resources of schools, employment service, and governmental structures in the educational sphere. More than 5 000 school students of 8−10 grades took part in the II Republican professional orientation lesson held in March, 2018. The students represented all municipal regions of Karelia. At the beginning of a lesson the school students who have already chosen their professions made just 46 %, and after the lesson the number of the school students who made their professional choice increased up to 86 %.