THE INFLUENCE OF THE STUDENTS' TIME SELF-ORGANIZATION SKILLS ON COMPETITIVENESS LEVEL
To date, competitiveness is an important indicator of the preparedness of a future specialist in the educational process of a university, which allows a graduate to withstand a strict selection in employment. In order to ensure the required competitiveness level of their graduates, universities need to consider modern features and requirements for them, in production or in the service sector, that is, the competitiveness indicator is considered as a link between the spheres of higher professional education and the formation of labor demand and supply. The effectiveness of any activity can be viewed through the prism of time spent on its implementation, which puts forward the factor of time and the ability to organize it to the fore in the development of a particular activity, which requires the student to rebuild mental processes and, accordingly, affects the development of professionally significant personal qualities of the future graduate. Thus, the purpose of this article is to actualize the problem of forming a competitive specialist through the graduates' development of skills aimed at organizing their time at higher educational institutions. In pursuit of this goal, the authors conducted an appropriate theoretical study, formulated such key definitions as professional competence, self-organization and one of its main components - temporary competence. The latter implies that students have skills in the field of prioritization in business and interaction with other people, the art of time management (time management), which, in turn, implies the skills of goal setting, planning, organizing and controlling the performed actions, as well as a sense of time or adequate perception. The data of the conducted ascertaining experiment allow us to speak of a low level of time self-organization among students of different direction universities and prove the relevance of this problem. In order to develop the required skills of organizing their time, which will allow future specialists to become competitive in their field, in university graduates, the authors propose the creation of an appropriate special course.