Humanities students' views on their future careers, priorities, and motivation

The article is devoted to the study of the humanities students' views, preferences, motivations and ideas about professional future. The problem of matching vocational training with the requirements of the labor market and with the interests of the youth themselves is an urgent task, both from the standpoint of the labor market and the education system. The authors conducted a survey of students of 15 universities in five cities of Russia. The article shows that respondents' views on future work depend not only on the requirements of the profession, but also on the socio-demographic characteristics of students. The results allowed to draw a socio-cultural portrait of a humanities student. The views of humanitarians are strongly influenced by the gender factor. Traditional cultural stereotypes in the field of employment still persist, which will continue to influence the plans and behavior of humanitarians. Their preferences are also largely determined by the financial situation of the family. Their preferences are, in most cases, quite high. This allows humanities students to consider monetary motives as secondary when choosing a future job, giving preference to such criteria as the possibility of self-development. Humanitarians adapt better than representatives of other specialties to the labor market, to new trends in employment, and show a great desire to work freelance. Freelancing corresponds to their desire to combine work and personal life and have a flexible work schedule, providing a large number of vacancies corresponding to their profession, with the remote nature of work. It is revealed that entrepreneurship is considered by humanitarians only from the standpoint of monetary income.

questionnaire survey, humanities students, students' career specifics, gender factor, socio-demographic characteristics, freelance, entrepreneurship