Keyword: «legal enlightenment»

The urgency of the problem is caused by the results of sociological polls confirming the low percentage of employment in the specialty of law schools graduates, as well as by a significant number of scientific works on the issue under study, publications in electronic and print media. The purpose of this study is to identify the features and problems of vocational guidance work with students of law schools. The achievement of this goal is supposed, first, through understanding the essence of vocational guidance work with students, and secondly, through determining the main methods of increasing the students’ interest to the profession they are going to get, and also through considering concrete practical examples of vocational guidance work. The key research methods are sociological, modeling, analytical, synthesis method, as well as some methods of legal science theoretical comprehension. The main result of the study is the identification of vocational guidance work key features, characteristic exclusively for law schools and faculties. This scientific work will be useful to both theoretical and practical workers whose activity is connected with jurisprudence or pedagogical sciences; it can also be used for further research and development, including students’ projects.