STUDENTS’ PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL POTENTIAL IN THE SYSTEM OF UNIVERSITY TRAINING

The paper aims to present the results of the examination of personal and professional potential of future special-ists in the process of studying at a university. The experiment involved 248 students of 1-2 years of study of the Inter-national Humanitarian University (Odesa). In the structure of personal and professional potential of a specialist, the motivational, epistemological, praxeological, and personal components are singled out. The personal and profes-sional potential of future specialists was assessed according to the following criteria: motivational (indicators: value orientations, focus on a profession, the need for self-realization), cognitive (indicators: professional knowledge, de-sire for self-education), activity (creative potential, communicative and organizational skills), subjective (indicators: moral and volitional qualities, communicative tolerance, emotional intelligence). The personal and professional po-tential was examined by means of specially selected methods according to each indictor. As a result of the study, it has been found that most of the respondents have a low level of personal and professional potential maturity, which gives grounds to speak about the necessity of developing a technique to improve future specialists' levels of personal and professional potential, which is considered to be the prospect of further research.