Elective courses and digital disciplines in improving the status of students professional identity

The purpose of this article is to determine the factors influencing the determination of the career image of students of different courses of full-time education in secondary vocational educational institutions on the example of students of the Rostov Technological College of Service. To analyze whether the status of students' professional identity depends on the time of their studies. In the conditions of the current shortage of specialists in working professions, this research has a practical applied nature for the further formation of a digital product that contributes to the professional identity of students by the time they are employed. As a result of the work, the ways of promising research are identified.