CAREER ORIENTATIONS: USEFULL CONSTRUCT IN PUTTING THE WORK PREFERENCES IN ACCORDANCE WITH LABOUR MARKET OPPORTUNITIES

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to point at the necessity of complementing the activities from economic and social nature which are taken (or could he taken) for increasing the employment opportunities with activities from psychological natire (counseling and support from vocational psychologists). In that way, the emphasize is put on career orientations as usefidl construct in realisation of mentioned activities. Career orientations can contribute in increasing of the self-knowledge, i.e. personal preferences in the field of work. Then, brought in the balance with labour market conditions, they could be helpfull in making optimal decisions about employment or future career steps.
Because career orientations are not axaminet in our context, the explorative analysis was made. The purpose of that analysis was to get an inside into their representation in our student population. The sample was consisted of 46 third year students at the Faculty of philosophy. Shein’s Career Orientatinon Inventory was used for data gathering. The most frecvently (in 30.43% of the subjects) as dominant career orientation was foud security which means preference of longtime and stabile employment. The most seldom (in 6.52% of the subjects) as dominant career orientation was foud technical-profesional competence which means preference of jobs in which people can realise and continously develope their abilities and skills. Menagerial competence, as a career orientation which means ambition toward high positions in the work organisation, was not found as the most important in any of the cases. The results are discused and recoman- dations for future research in this field are given.