, COMPETENCY-BASED APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY GRADUATES’ COMPETITIVE SKILLS // BSU bulletin. Economy and Management. - 2019. №3. . - С. 19-25.

COMPETENCY-BASED APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY GRADUATES’ COMPETITIVE SKILLS

DOI: 10.18101/2304-4446-2019-3-19-25 UDK: 331.5

Today both foreign and domestic literature pay great attention to the problem of graduates’ competitiveness. This problem is studied by economists, managers, psychologists and edu- cators. An analysis of theoretical approaches to this concept has shown that all of them are quite similar. Scientists highlight various factors that influence graduates’ competitiveness with the main emphasis being placed on personal characteristics of graduates and insuffi- cient attention to qualification component. We have proposed our own approach to deter- mining the competitiveness of graduates, which is based on identification of three groups of competencies: professional, personal and business. Each of these groups contains a set of qualities that determine the competitiveness of a graduate. As a result of testing this ap- proach, we have built a model for development university graduates’ competitive skills.

graduates’ competitiveness; labor market; employer; professional, personal, business competencies; competitiveness model.