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The article explains the meaning of pedagogical training of students in the context of professional-creative achievements. The authors define the strategy and pedagogical conditions of directing students toward creative achievements in their future professional activity. The conducted analytical work allowed distinguishing a contradiction between the social request of preparing the individual for professional work on the creative level and the lack of elaboration of pedagogical strategies in secondary vocational education. The object of study in the article is the process of directing students toward the professional-creative achievements. The aim of the article is to substantiate the pedagogical meaning of the training of the future specialist of middle management to creative achievements in the future professional activity. The research base is the institution of secondary vocational education (college). Annual monitoring of the needs of employers, a survey of employers of students in extracurricular work within the disciplines of general trade cycle helped to gather a list of the key competencies. According to the results of the survey, it is revealed that the modern graduate must be able to foresee the consequences of the professional activities, should exercise a responsible approach to decision making. Employers insist on the following requirements to the mid-level professionals: the ability to interact with other people, groups to address the general problem, the ability to carry out thinking, decision making, including in an irregular situation, to analyze, to carry out synthesis, self-estimation, self-study, to implement professional innovations and others. The requirements of the employers are justified by increasing individual responsibility for the quality of work of employees and the level of interaction between workers in the team, the growing need for direct communication of professionals with the clients and customers. It is determined that many of these indicators relate to the level of creativity. It is found that communication with employers, questioning the needs, identifying the requirements increases interest in the profession and motivates students to learn. In processing the questionnaires the conflicting demands of employers are revealed, as well as the presence of unreasonably high requirements to the quality characteristics of the future employees without warranty of employment.