MODERN THEORETICAL CONTENT "COMPETITIVE GRADUATE"
The article is devoted to the formation of a competitive labor market of graduates. Particular attention is paid to the disclosure of the definition of “competitiveness of graduates” as a base for solving problems of increasing competitiveness of graduate students of higher educational institutions of Russia in various branches of knowledge. The article provides an analysis of the essential concepts of the theoretical contents of “competitiveness of graduates” in the theory and methodology of higher education. The author analyzes and compares various achievements of researchers in the domain of theoretical contents of “competitive graduate” in the theory and methodology of higher education. The article describes the modern point of view of the author on the problem under study. The research identifies and justifies the necessary theoretical, methodological and technological basis for the formation and development of the theoretical contents of a test of “competitiveness of graduates”. For a more complete disclosure of the considered theoretical contents the work defines personal and professional qualities that are required of university graduates to be competitive.