DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROFESSIONAL WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION
The article presents research on a problem of the development of vocational guidance work in a higher educational institution, which is relevant for stimulating the professional self-determination of schoolchildren, as well as in the intra-vocational orientation. The purpose of the article is to describe the pedagogical experience of career guidance work conducted at the Department of Special (Defectology) Education of the Pedagogical Institute of the Northeastern Federal University n.a. M.K. Ammosov. The article reveals the directions of professional orientation work: holding olympiads of various levels, working with graduates of schools in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), organizing the Center for Psychological and Pedagogical Assistance to Saidy Children with Disabilities, master classes and seminars for students, meetings with veterans of pedagogical work, etc. The authors of the article conduct an analysis of the long-term systematic vocational guidance work with students of different levels of education (general education, secondary vocational education, higher education, higher education.) The results of the described work can be useful for teachers, methodologists and specialists, who are responsible for vocational guidance work of higher education institutions on organization of purposeful work on attracting potential applicants.