Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview General Session Author(s) Anush Stepanyan Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia Yerevan Armenia Title The Role of the Values System in Professional Activity File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Anush Stepanyan Abstract Society peculiarities and values in particular, play important role in professional activity and career development. The values systems of educational, socio-economic, informational technologies and political fields are changing and in some cases the new ones are formed. The west models of social fields, especially education system, market relationships, human rights, are localized and legal and other changes are made. The mentioned changes directly reflect the demand in job market and professions, as well as the peculiarities of professional development. The society in Armenia is in stage of big changes. Those changes have a direct influence on the demand of professions, and the statistical data of higher education field. In order to find out the connections between society changes and career choices in the recent years current research has been conducted on the basis of the following methodology. In order to proceed this study, the document analysis research method has been used. Document analysis method let the researchers to get sociological information during the social processes researches. We analyzed the statistical data from Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia considering the quantity of applicants of different professions to state and non-state universities in 2000-2015 years. The publications about the socio-economic situations in RA through the mentioned years have been reviewed. The quantities of applicants each year have been summed and compared. As a result the research shows that changes in the quantities became visible after 2009, when the importance of informational technologies appeared in different fields of working activity. A big demand in informational technologies started after 2009. The service field is a subject of interest and the amount of applicants is growing every year. This can be considered as the moment when our industrial society transformed to informational society. Relying on the findings of the research we have concluded that the changes in the society have direct influence on the personal and professional development of individuals. Those changes define people’s attitude and notions about the professions and also form new values system, which becomes a cause of change of professional development process.
