Some features of professional orientation

Career orientation is an important component of a successful career, as well as the key to sustainable economic development. Career guidance can be implemented in different ways, but the greatest effect is observed in the case when working with a person begins at school. In addition to approaches aimed at mass work with people, there are individual consultations that allow realizing an accented personalized effect. However, approaches to the organization of vocational guidance, as well as the goals pursued by it, in modern Russia and the USSR differ. The authors conducted a brief comparison and made conclusions regarding making corrections to the aforementioned process.