Dzhura A. Education in a system of factors of the individual professional self-determination

The essence and mechanisms of professional self-determination of an individual, main factors of this process, purposeful and system-formative role of education were analyzed in the course of research results of which are being defended. A need of modernizing contemporary education in the context of aiming at increasing its effect upon the individual professional self-determination in the system of market and democratic transformations is proved. A candidate for the degree proves a conclusion that the individual professional self-determination is purposeful to conduct in the course of specially organized scientific and practical activities, so called professional orientation, which is considered as a system of equal individual-society interaction (through the system of upbringing and education) at certain stages of personal development, which optimally meets personal peculiarities and demands of the labor market in competitive specialists.