Professional Activities to Create a Quality Life
The article presents theoretical and practical approaches to career counseling, carried out in the systems of school and university education. The urgency of the problem and the growing interest in career consulting in the modern world are substantiated. The main theories of career counseling, which are the basis of modern practices, are presented. The article considers modern approaches and practices to career guidance, which in one form or another go back to five classical theories: theory of professional personality types in the working environment of J. Holland; Self-concept in Super's career development theory; theory of adaptation to work; Gottfredson's theory of exceptions and compromise; social cognitive career theory.