Monitoring students' perceptions of a specialist's career and professional reliability in the information environment

The issue of successful professional self-determination of future specialists remains relevant and can be reconsidered taking into account the demands of the modern labour market on their personality, as well as the compliance of professionally important qualities with the challenges of the time, the requirements of socio-economic conditions, and the level of scientific and technological progress. Undoubtedly, the quality of a career largely depends on forming the components of a specialist’s professional reliability. In the current context of technological progress and the realities of emerging an information society, it is also necessary to formulate and solve the problem of building a successful career and ensuring a specialist’s professional reliability when performing professional tasks in the information environment. The work reveals the essence of the concepts of “career”, “professional reliability”, and “information environment”; presents the results of studying the ideas of students of technical and medical specialties about the career and professional reliability of a future specialist in the information environment. Thus, the following points are noted: a) similarity in the ideas of students of these specialties about a career as a means of personal and life self-determination in professional activity; b) a high assessment of the influence of information environment factors on the career development quality. The paper states the differences in the survey participants’ opinions in two samples regarding the assessment of the likelihood of information security risks in the information environment in different systems of interpersonal interaction, as well as the assessment of the likelihood of information security risks and a specialist’s professional reliability in the information environment during professional activities. Based on the obtained results, psychological and pedagogical recommendations are provided for implementing in the educational process in higher education.