The manual contains modern ideas about professional and personal self-determination, the basics of career guidance and professional selection. Issues such as the ethics of professional consulting, the organization and planning of the work of a professional consultant are touched upon. Particular attention is paid to active methods of professional consulting: original author's methods for practical work with self-determining adolescents and adult clients are presented. Various options are proposed for conducting professional consulting work with clients with different value-semantic orientations, as well as designed for professional consultants with different levels of professional training. For students-psychologists, professional consultants, school psychologists (teacher-psychologists), teachers, social educators and social workers engaged in career guidance work.