The article discusses the possibility of using the subjective semantics as a basis for the proposed E.A. Klimov classification of occupations based on the differentiation of working relations of man to the objects of the world. In the scientific school of E.Yu. Artemieva this classification is understood as a typology of a replacement reality, which is revealed through the ways of free descriptions of objects and metaphorical interpretation of semantic differential scales. Correlation of semantics with a professional affiliation will allow us to predict the degree of conformity of man to the world of professions.

The paper presents the descriptor dictionary of 53-letter-numeric codes (DC). DC was used for empirical study of formation of occupational and labor world pictures by psychologists. DC constitutes the integrated picture of the labor world using such categories of analysis as objects, aims, tools and conditions of labor. Six psychologists classified 2298 occupations using DC. The data analysis showed that all of DC category features were present in psychologists’ minds. Each psychologist appeared to have a unique combination of them called an individual picture of labor world. The most difference in the pictures formed by the psychologists’ was observed in their labor typologies and in the way they clustered labor tools. The individual choices of clusters of aims and clusters of conditions of work demonstrated similarity.

The article explains the continuity of domestic proforientational methods, DDQ and «Proforientator». The authors described the scientific and organiziational contributions, made by Professor E.A. Klimov in the development of modern proforientational diagnostic methods. The reader of this article can find the illustration of his contributions to the history of emergence of a computerized test «Proforientator» and the logic of its revising. The authors focus on the block «interests» and secondary scales of modern test in the areas of targeted learning. Analysis of massive empirical material using expert assessment and mathematical statistics, allowed to reasonably prove validity of schoolchildren’ test results with the help of the «Proforientator» test real career, with a precision of up to six areas of targeted learning. Also it was given attention to deal with individual bright cases involving real failed choices of higher education and specialty. The materials described the theoretical basis of domestic proforientational approach, which have been tested in practice.