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The paper explains relevance of career competence of prospective specialists. It describes the concept of career competence. Career competence is considered to be the element of professional competence characterizing its aspiration, readiness and ability to professional self-realization, which is followed by reflexive vision of, an adequate self-assessment and defining purposeful process and result of development of professional career. The publication defines the structure of career competence which consists of axiological, motivational and activity (self-efficiency, motivation to career, ability to solve career problems), cognitive (career goal-setting and planning), personal (responsibility and adaptability) and procedural components (procedure of career building: steps, stages, periods and dynamics). The author analyzes technologies of career competence of building in national and foreign educational systems. The article describes special course on career competence building “My career”. The theoretical and methodological basis of the course “My Career” is developed by means of applying competence-based approach, personal and activity approach, axiological and the subject - subject ones. The course “My Career” is considered to be the block and modules system of interactive classes carried out in the training way; the course involves students in activity which conforms to development of career orientations, self-efficiency, goals setting, development of motivation to career, ability to overcome career obstacles, adapt to changing environment conditions, development of tactical and strategic planning of career taking into account changes of its speed in the social and economic environment. The course is based on three modules responding to the stages of career competence building; they are focusing module, bringing module and fixing one. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the results received during experiment proved efficiency of psychology and pedagogical training «My career» is constructed on the basis of integration between motivational and activity component, cognitive component, axiological one, personal and procedural components of prospective specialists’ career competence building.