THE EDUCATIONAL DISCIPLINE "ADAPTATION TO THE LABOR MARKET" IN THE SYSTEM OF UNIVERSITY TRAINING OF COMPETITIVE SPECIALIST
The article is devoted to the problem of training competitive specialists, which is relevant for professional pedagogy. The modern dynamically changing world causes the need for purposeful pedagogical support of development of adaptive potential of students of higher education institution, necessary for their successful professional self-realization in the labor market. Researchers dealing with the problems of training competitive graduates, agree that the modern labor market requires from specialist the specific new skills. If a few decades ago he was mainly required to possess the necessary amount of knowledge, skills and abilities for productive professional activity, now the employer expects to see also the developed personal, professional mobility. The main objectives of the University are: the development of students' competition-orientation and the formation of their competitiveness. It is shown that the introduction of a practice-oriented approach to the educational process in the University is a necessary measure to solve various problems of training, including the problem of competitiveness of graduates. The implementation of the educational discipline «Adaptation to the labor market» at the same time allows students to form a clearer understanding of the professional environment, their place in it, the requirements of the modern labor market, and thus positively affect their readiness for professional activity, to perform labor functions in any particular field of activity that meet the requirements of the modern employer.