Traditions and Innovations in Career Guidance Work of Railway Universities

UDC 378:656.2+373-053

https://doi.org/10.20339/AM.12-22.074

Olga Yu. Bryukhova, Senior Lecturer in Department “Theory and Sociology of Management” at Ural State University of Railway Transport; PhD applicant in Department «Personnel Management and Sociology» at Ural Institute of Management – Branch of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, e-mail: Brukhova-olga@yandex.ru  Tatiana V. Duran, PhD (Sociology), Docent, Associate Professor in Department “Personnel Management and Sociology” at Ural State University of Railway Transport, e-mail: tatyanaduran1978@gmail.com Natalya N. Startseva, PhD (Sociology), Docent, Associate Professor in Department “Personnel Management and Sociology” at Ural State University of Railway Transport, e-mail: NStarceva@usurt.ru

Systematic career guidance counselling work organized by a higher education institution is a prerequisite for attracting highly motivated applicants who have consciously made their professional choice. The need to increase the visibility of educational institutions among Russian applicants, form mechanisms for talent selection, introduce digital tools for promoting educational products, and improve the quality of targeted training, actualize the need to bring career guidance to a new development level, while maintaining the best traditions and using the potential of innovative solutions. The aim of the study was to assess the current state of career guidance work of higher education institutions of railway profile with schoolchildren and applicants and to identify possible ways to improve it. The theoretical basis of the study consists of the works of domestic and foreign specialists, revealing the essence and content of career guidance work of universities. The methodological basis is the system-activity approach. General scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, classification) are used as theoretical research methods, traditional and content analysis of documents is used to collect empirical information. The study made it possible to identify traditional and innovative forms and methods of career guidance, as well as the main factors that determine the nature and specifics of career guidance programs implemented by universities of the railway profile. The authors come to the conclusion that the career guidance work carried out at the universities of Railway Transport the main provisions of the Concept of training personnel for the transport complex until 2035. Thus, along with the traditional, innovative formats of career guidance activities are implemented, but reserves for the use of «new media», networking, artificial intelligence technologies, virtual and augmented reality, and gamification in the process of career guidance.

Key words: railway industry, innovations, content analysis, youth, industry university, professional orientation, career guidance work, early career guidance, traditions, traditional analysis.

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