Abstract: With the development of social economy, the cultivation of vocational quality of higher vocational students has been promoted to a new height in the process of employment and career development. It is imperative for society and colleges to promote the cultivation of vocational quality. In order to better realize the sustainable career development of higher vocational college students and improve the quality of talent training and core competitiveness of higher vocational colleges, the paper expounds the connotation and function embodiment of vocational quality, sums up the problems existing in the cultivation of vocational quality in higher vocational colleges, and puts forward some countermeasures, such as improving students’ professional quality, cultivating self-study consciousness, promoting the interactive construction of campus and enterprise cultural activities, and constructing the cultivation mechanism of the integration of production and teaching.

Key words: Professional quality, Cultivation, Connotation, Function, Dilemma, Countermeasures