Adapting professional development to the digital transformation of today's job market

Abstract

The article focuses on the issues of professional training systems for future specialists during the digitalization of the labor market and the educational process itself. The relevance of the current study lies in the fact that the dynamics of the traditional methodological approach towards the educational process, given the global world trends, determines the priority of focusing on the competence approach. This article aims to determine the peculiarities of professional training of future specialists and its structure in the context of digital changes in the modern labor market. During the study, the following general research methods were applied: synthesis, analysis, specification, generalization, comparison, systematization, and abstraction. The author has substantiated the structure of professional training of future specialists, which combines professional and personal components. Also, there were identified vectors for improving the educational process aimed at forming future specialists' information, digital, communication, and intercultural competence as essential components of their overall professionalism. The author has established that the need to improve the process of professional training at the current stage of development is stipulated by specific requirements for professionally significant qualities resulting from the particular content and focus of professional activities in line with digital changes in the labor market. The study has found that one of the promising areas of the educational process today involves the formation of personal qualities of future specialists, including their digital literacy, logical thinking, and international communication skills.In addition, the author has outlined the basic principles of implementing and developing the interdisciplinary integration of the professional training process to meet the requirements of the digitalized labor market.