Keyword: «student's personality trait»

In the modern conditions of globalization and rapid development of technologies, understanding the requirements for the competitiveness of university students is becoming especially relevant. Numerous studies aimed at examining this phenomenon define the concept of "competitiveness" from the position of different scientific fields. The aim of this article is to clarify the concept of "competitiveness of a university student", its structure and the functional purpose of its components. The leading approach to the study of the problem is a systems approach, which provides methods of functional decomposition and structural-functional analysis. In the course of the study, an analysis of approaches to defining the concept of "competitiveness" in economics, psychology and pedagogy was made. The dialectical triad "strategy, activity, result" was revealed as a pattern for identifying the functional structure of the desired personality trait and further formalization of the concept of "competitiveness of a university student". It has been determined that the leading function of the considered personality trait is mobilization and presentation, aimed at self-organization of the student for building up and following a strategy for achieving success in the professional and personal spheres and demonstrating this through the actions taken and their results. The performed functional decomposition made it possible to determine four interconnected functional blocks in the structure of the student's competitiveness: motivational-value, cognitive, professional activity-oriented, personal. Pairwise synergy of the identified blocks and their functions determine the presence of strategic, tactical and operational competitiveness of the university student correlated with the components of the identified dialectical triad. The theoretical significance of the work consists in clarifying the concept of "competitiveness of a university student" based on the integration of knowledge from various scientific fields, which allows creating a more complete picture of shaping the desired personality trait in the process of professional training. The practical significance of the study lies in increasing the efficiency and accuracy of the developed methods and means for formation and diagnostics of university students’ competitiveness in the process of their professional training. The article may be of interest to researchers whose scientific interests and work are aimed at improving the quality of professional training and developing the competitiveness of university students.