Professional competence of future specialists of entrepreneurship, trade and exchange activities, and their structure

Abstract

The article reveals the essence of the concept of «professional competence» based on the analysis of researches of scientists. It is defined as an integrative personality quality that determines a specialist's ability to solve professional problems and tasks; a set of professional and personal qualities of a specialist, which combines fundamental knowledge of economic theory, innovative economic way of thinking, skills to analyze and establish interpersonal relationships. The purpose of the article is to determine the structure of professional competence of future specialists in entrepreneurship, trade and exchange activities. Objective: to find out the state of the problem under study in scientific sources and to formulate the vision of the components of professional competence in future specialists in this specialty. The concept of professional competence of future specialists in entrepreneurship, trade and exchange activities is formulated as a complex, multicomponent personality-psychological formation on the basis of integration of knowledge, skills, purposeful practical training, ability of the individual to self-improvement and self-expression on the basis of formed civic and moral and ethical values. It has been established that in the structure of professional competence of education personal-individual, subject-practical, informational, managerial, analytical, economic, scientific and research methods are included. The components of professional competence of future specialists in entrepreneurship, trade and exchange activities are includes: entrepreneurial (in the field of business planning, enterprise strategy in national and international markets, research), economic (normative-legal; mathematical-statistical, economic modeling), general culture (education of culture of interpersonal relations, tolerance). The components of formation of professional competence of future specialists in entrepreneurship, trade and exchange activities are defined.