APPLICANTS' PREFERENCES IN CHOOSING THE PROFESSION: YESTERDAY AND TODAY
Currently, education policy, in particular for higher professional learning is ambiguous. It is believed that the labor market needs regular labor force, specialists with secondary and elementary vocational professional education. The article provides employment comparison for applicants with different educational levels, traces the connection of state policy in regulating the turn-out of specialists and their further employment. It notes the trend of transition of higher professional education from the «elite» category to the «universal» one, which is connected not only with the problems of the world economy globalization but with the constantly increasing requirements to workers' professional competence. The article identifies and reveals the grounds for structural shifts in distribution of profession preferences, as well as states the professions that are most popular from applicants' point of view.