PROFESSIONAL READINESS OF STUDENTS OF LEGAL FACULTY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the study of the phenomenon of readiness to choose a profession as a stable characteristic of a person based on personal qualities, knowledge, skills, positive attitude to professional activity and the need to exercise professional self-determination by taking into account personal capabilities. The work gives a detailed highlighting to various points of view and theoretical position related to the concept of “readiness”, analyzes approaches to define the notion of “professional readiness”, presenting models of its structure, components and factors of formation. Practical conclusions are given on the basis of a qualitative research method – a semi-structured interview survey of students of legal faculty, as correlated with the typology of readiness to three criteria: moral, psychophysiological, practical readiness. The interview data allow to conclude on the motives of students’ professional choice, their orientation to the content of the profession, getting an idea of working conditions and professional perspectives for the future, as indicative of the formed readiness criteria.