The choice of the profession «social worker»: motivation aspect

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the main motivational factors that reveal the desire of young people to devote their life to the profession of «social worker». The method of the research is based on theoretical and methodological procedure of the analysis of the problem field from the general to the specific – from outlining the motivational factors regarding the selection of young people of the profession «social worker» to the analysis of specific changes that should take place in the content of relevant vocational guidance work and professional training. The results of the research are three main motivating factors in the choice of the young people the profession «social worker»: the profession appears as a means of solving by the person his own social, psychological and, in general, life problems, and a means of realizing a person's higher meanings of his life, as well as an effective tool for realizing human life's success. The originality of the scientific results consists in that that the outlined holistic system of motivational factors regarding the choice of the young people of the profession «social worker» allows to radically change the professional orientation work and enrich the content of professional training.  Conclusions and prospects of the study. The mentioned motivational factors should be reflected both in the content of the educational process of the professional training process in higher education institutions, and to form a kind of focus of vocational guidance work as for attracting the students to the relevant specialty. Consequently, the task of developing a holistic system of vocational guidance work is based on the principles of the stated motivational principles.