Essential characteristics of the concept of “professional mobility”

Abstract

Competitiveness, professional mobility, professionalism and competence of a specialist are the qualities on which human life and work successes depend on. The purpose of the article is to consider the issue of professional mobility as a factor in the professional success of a modern specialist. Professional mobility is studied as a systemic quality of a specialist who includes a whole range of knowledge, skills, abilities, personal qualities, value orientations, etc. The vision of the mobility of specialists by foreign scientists is presented.
It is noted that the classification of professional mobility, presented in the article, makes it possible to organize various movements from unified positions, to submit them as separate manifestations of the overall process of vocational and pedagogical mobility, to determine what kind of mobility provides for the fulfillment of certain social functions. It has been found that mobility can be differentiated into intrigeneration and intergenerational. By subject distinguish mobility individual and group; by direction – internal and external. The classification of employees according to their attitude to mobility is shown, which can be divided into the following groups: actually mobile; potentially mobile; actually stable; potentially stable.