Specifics of competence formation of future specialists in hotel and restaurant business in the process of professional training in higher educational establishments

Abstract

The article provides a structural and systematic analysis of the process of competence forming of future specialists in hotel and restaurant business during training in higher educational establishments. Based on different scientific researches on the problems of training future specialists in the service sector in higher educational establishments a complex of future specialists’ competences was differentiated. The definition of the concept of «competence of future specialists in hotel and restaurant sector» is defined as a multicomponent dynamic combination, represented by knowledge, skills, abilities, ways of thinking, views, values, other personal qualities, implemented through higher education in the field of knowledge 24 «Service» 241 «Hotel and restaurant business», forms of education, which is a complex of integrated, general (soft skills) and special (hard professional, subject skills) competencies and determines student’s ability to successfully socialize, conduct professional and / or further educational activities, independently and purposefully individually increase professional competence , build a career and form your own concept of life success. We include cultural, multicultural, moral and ethical, social, health, civil, religious, ideological, civilizational, cosmopolitan, artistic and aesthetic, linguistic and communicative, polylingual, rhetorical, humanitarian and psychological, self-educational, critical thinking, creative, information-digital, media competence, inclusive, reflective. Special competencies are: specific-professional, legal, research, experimental, ecological, socio-economic, entrepreneurial, innovative, instrumental-analytical, discursive, technical, technological, leadership-managerial, monitoring-diagnostic, expert, prognostic-prognostic, sustainability. Scientific research, analysis and research have made it possible to determine a set of competencies for successful socialization, professional activities, career development and formation of own concept of life success.