There are marked out the issues of formation of higher school graduates’ competitiveness before their working career. Readiness for competitive behavior at the labour market is regarded as a professionally important quality that should be influenced in the course of professional education. There are represented the research results of graduates of the Romance and German Philology Faculty of the Voronezh State University. From the positions of the competence approach there is determined the training contents for future masters in the sphere of linguistic education.

Corporate culture mastering is regarded as the goal of professional education of higher school students. A teacher is characterized as the key figure of the corporate culture of a higher school that has complex effect on future specialists personality.

There are marked the issues of education of future specialists in a higher school learning process. There are revealed the factors of educational influence, which provide the quality of higher school education; suggested the research results of orientation system of students at the values of higher education. From the position of value and motivational approach, there are defined the contents of value attitude of students to their future professional work.

There is researched the issue of professional selfeducation of a future foreign language teacher; specified the structural components of a professiogram, which reflects the aspects of the profession and personality of a foreign language teacher; the teachers image is regarded as the integral goal of professional training of a foreign language teacher at language faculties of a higher school.

There is marked out the range of problems regarding the process of formation of future specialists adequate professional self-appraisal in the educational area of a higher school. There is suggested the logic of individual route of professional establishment. There are revealed the pedagogic conditions of students adequate self-appraisal in the process of professional self-determination.

There is investigated the self-appraisal role in professional formation of a future specialist. There are revealed the pedagogical conditions of students' adequate professional and personal self-appraisal formation in higher school learning process, its functions, structure and development stages.