Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2016 number 4

The article deals with reproduction of qualified labour power, methods, conditions and the model of forming professional competence of young specialists who are graduates of institutions. The main items of the article include requirements to the performance of training professional workforce in terms of globalization and structural changes in economics; problems, that hinder reproduction and employment professionally competent workers and specialists; it reveals that nowadays the term “competence” is a crucial criterion of professional education and integral workforce performance index and plays the significant role in evaluating specialists’ qualification level according to the UNESCO requirements on transition to the concept of human competence and the national performance evaluation system’ statute; standards endorsed by the Government of the Russian Federation and federal authorities on issues dealing with improvement of qualified staff training and implementation of the competency-based approach; the main ways of competency-based approach implementation to the professional training of higher institutions and secondary schools graduates; the paper analyzes the basic workforce performance criteria; transition to the new paradigm: from the traditional “knowledge” approach to the competency-based one in determining objectives of professional education, selection of education contents, organization of education process and evaluation of its results from the position of professional education institutions’ graduates’ availability in efficient labour through the constantly changing conditions; presented the main terms of achieving professional competence by the all level professional education institutions’ graduates; showed the necessity to create innovative education environment in professional education institutions and regions of the country; given the stages to achieve professional competence of professional education institutions’ graduates. The methods and approaches used in this research: competence-based, personally-centered, activity-based approaches, humanization of education, formation of knowledge, skills and habits, professional and cultural competencies for the graduates, employment by profession, efficient employment and step-by-step achievement of professional competence. The novelty of this research is explained by the developed model of forming professional competence for professional education institutions’ graduates. This model includes two stages and offers a complex system, with its stages and components closely interconnected, as function of each stages present the condition of efficient functioning of the whole system’s other components and stages. At the first stage - professional education in professional education institutions should be considered as the initial stage of forming basics of graduates’ future professional competence, mastering knowledge, skills, habits, professional and cultural competencies, humanitarian development, value aims and professional motivation. The nature of worker’s competence being the product of professional education in professional education institutions, does not originate from it, but is the consequence of the further self-development and experience in labour activities of young specialists. Therefore, at the second stage (efficient employment) successful labour, adaptation in firms, work experience by profession are particularly needed for achieving professional competence by the graduates.