The article analyzes psychological and pedagogical aspects of training future teachers in the context of competence approach. Comparison of the content of the activities of the teacher identified in various standards: education, Skills, professional. The possibilities of the WorldSkills competition as a tool for independent evaluation of graduate competencies and the quality of vocational training are considered.

In article results of a research of psychological features of choice of profession taking into account an urgent condition of labor market reveal. On the basis of factual material the reasons of low efficiency of professional orientation work with youth are analyzed. Professional preferences and intentions of the studying teenagers are considered. The prospects of development of professional orientation work are analyzed.

The article reveals the content of the project «Ural urbanplanning school», created within the framework of the Priority Projects «Education» and «Comfortable urban environment» of the Government of the Russian Federation. The initiators of the project are the Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts together with the Ministry of Construction and Infrastructure of the Sverdlovsk Region. The changed conditions dictate new requirements for urban development and the creation of a comfortable living environment. The changed conditions put new tasks before the corps of the senior architects of the region. First, a consensus has been reached between the authorities and the educational community, that the key to solving the problem is professional development and professional retraining of the corps of the senior architects of the region. The result of the achieved consensus is the project «Ural urban-planning school».

In article the problem of forecasting of professional future young specialist, university graduate is considered. Opportunities and specifics of career consultation as instrument of forecasting of professional future expert are analyzed, the diagnostic potential of the «Profkaryera» complex in the solution of this task is described.