Process of career competence formation of students in the period of study at the university

The treatment of the concepts "professional competence", "career competence" is grounded. The career competence is represented as a set of cognitive, motivational and active, personal, axiological, procedural elements. The Federal state educational standard of higher professional education is analyzed for its containing the career competences. The impact of educational technologies and interactive teaching methods is presented, such as computer simulation, business and role-playing games, analyzing the specific situations, problem solving lectures, lectures-consultations, lectures-visualization, psychological and other trainings, etc. to develop students' skills of autonomous decision-making, ability to act independently by means of simulating a work situation, predict possible difficulties. It is proved that introductory, productive and prediploma forms of practice contribute to the development of the necessary competencies. The basic objectives for the development of career competences in students are determined.