The research urgency is caused by necessity of the accumulation of human capital as the main factor of economic growth. The purpose of this article is to identify methods of psychological and pedagogical support of formation of professional outlook of the university students. Methodological basis of the research was the principle of acmeology, which allowed to consider professional outlook as a set of special knowledge, value orientations, ways of activity, influencing the formation of professional competencies, readiness for lifelong learning, and competitiveness on the labour market. The main results of the study are to identify informational, motivational, activity-methods of psychology-pedagogical support. The significance of the results is that informational methods (lectures, discussions, lecture-discussions) is aimed at assimilation of special knowledge, which became a belief and contributes professional views of the future specialist. Motivational techniques (exhibition of achievements of the students, the construction of individual educational trajectories) promote awareness of belonging to a professional community, the formation of relatively autonomous and sustainable system of internal determinants of professional activities (interest, social, group, personal values). Activity methods (research work of students, internships) provide a co-creative artistic search teacher and student the solution of existential problems of professional activity and the formation of an integrated system of beliefs, attitudes, values and skills. Performance criteria methods of psychological and pedagogical support reflect a relationship of professional ideals, values related to the chosen profession, readiness for lifelong learning, self-organization and competitiveness on the labour market. The criteria of the effectiveness of the methods of psychological and pedagogical support reflects a relationship of professional ideals, values related to the chosen profession, readiness for lifelong learning, selforganization and competitiveness on the labour market. © 2017 by Academic Publishing.
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