DEVELOPING ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCY OF FUTURE QUALIFIED SPECIALISTS USING SELF-MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

Relevance: market relations reforms in Ukraine determine changes in the system of national professional education. They primarily refer to the need to prepare young specialists for successful personal and professional self-realization under the conditions of small business development.
 Aim: the paper aims to theoretically justify the expediency of using self-management technology in the pro- cess of developing entrepreneurial competency in future specialists under the conditions of changing market relations in Ukraine and intensive development of small business.
 Methods: external analysis of selected sources (to determine the historical circumstances and motives be- hind their creation and functioning as elements of specific social relations) and internal analysis (to study the characteristics of particular documents).
 Results: the paper shows that specific changes in economic relations lead to dynamic transformational shifts in personal values of modern students. The category of time becomes crucial for young specialists in the context of moving from the post-industrial to the information society, characterized by innovations and rapid changes in working conditions. Self-management is becoming a vital skill of the young generation since it implies time management and self-development. International and national documents emphasize the importance of developing career, entrepreneurial and other key competencies, necessary for building a successful professional career and self-employment under the conditions of small business development. At the same time, Ukrainian professional education schools are not ready to prepare young people for the rational use of their personal and time resources. Conclusions: Self-management technology is one of the most promising tasks for developing entrepreneurial competency under the conditions of small business development. The programme, titled «The Basics of Innovative Entrepreneurship», has been developed to overcome the imbalance between the development of professional and key competencies and the improvement of psycho-pedagogical and legal training of young specialists for ...