Aleksei Mironov

The urgency of searching for innovative career guidance options with students of the digital generation is due to the specifics of their hybrid socialization, combining the impact of the real and virtual environment on the interests of the younger generation, the ideas of high school students about fashionable and sought-after professions. The article reflects the results of a theoretical study of the characteristics of modern schoolchildren, which lead to a distortion of their ideas about their own abilities and make it difficult for them to develop their personal and professional self-determination. One of the main factors contributing to the problems of professional choice even among students of psychological and pedagogical classes is the lack of appropriate motivation among the children of the digital generation and limited knowledge regarding modern professions, in particular, the types of profession of a psychologist. In this regard, the aim of the work was to find effective forms and test an innovative career guidance program for students of the digital generation to increase motivation for choosing a profession as a psychologist. The research is based on a personal activity-based approach. Organizational, theoretical, empirical methods, quantitative and qualitative data analysis and interpretation were used. Empirical results were obtained using standardized methods for diagnosing motives for choosing a profession, determining willingness to choose a profession, identifying awareness, stability of orientation, and propensity for a certain type of profession. The development and testing of an innovative career guidance program based on the idea of joint participation in the analysis of the specifics of the profession of a psychologist, professional tools, types of activity, functions, responsibilities in game and interactive formats with immersion in the real environment of the university has significantly influenced the motivational determinants of students' choice of the profession of a psychologist. The theoretical significance of the research lies in substantiating a new approach to career guidance based on emotional and active immersion in the real environment of the university, the joint participation of schoolchildren, students and faculty in identifying the characteristics of the future profession in gaming and interactive formats, as well as in the substantiated selection and development of forms and methods of career guidance for the profession of a psychologist that best suit this approach, meet the specifics of this particular area of work activity and have a high motivating potential. The practical significance is due to the effectiveness of the proposed methods of career guidance for the profession of a psychologist, which have shown their effectiveness during testing.