The purpose of the work is to construct algorithms for professional reflection and choice of profession of philological profile for students-specialists in Russian Philology. The language materialthe names of professions in which students can work is extracted from the texts of business and journalistic speech, the analysis is based on the differentiation of the nuclear and peripheral parts of the field under consideration. The research is carried out at the intersection of pedagogy, linguistic semantics, labor psychology and linguoculturology. It is based on the linguistic technology of constructing semantic fields in combination with linguocognitive analysis. The results showed that the list of "professions for philologists" and their systematization should be based on the following grounds: 1) "universal" philological professions that are in demand in all institutional spheres of society; 2) "specialized" philological professions that are important mainly for the media, education, and culture. The practical value of the obtained results lies in the possibility of using them for professional education of students-specialists in Russian Philology in order to organize professional reflection and achieve a meaningful choice of the field of professional activity.