Аннотация:The article analyzes the problem of professional development of the individual from the moment of choosing a profession at the senior stage of training in an educational institution and building an individual professional route, to the formation of professional identity at the stage of completion of training at a University and readiness to engage in independent professional activity. The article deals with the issues that lie at the origins of the professionalization of the individual, related to the formation of complete, clear ideas at the stage of training at school. The results of an empirical study of the professional identity of University graduates are presented. The respondents were students-bachelors in the number of 150 people. The following methods were used: "A questionnaire aimed at studying ideas about the object of activity (E. I. Rogova), methods for studying the status of professional identity (A. A. Azbel, A. G. Gretsov); diagnostics of self-efficacy using the Maddux and Scheer method. It is established that the status of formed professional identity prevails among graduate students with high self-efficacy, the status of moratorium prevails among graduate students with medium self-efficacy, and the status of imposed professional identity distinguishes graduate students with low self–efficacy.
