Competitiveness Education Strategies in Training Experts for Coal Mining Region

Kemerovo State University, Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages and Mediacommunications, Department of Foreign Languages, 650000, 6 Krasnaya st., Kemerovo, Russia

Abstract

Methods and strategies of developing students’ skills for further successful employment in coal-mining region are considered. Combined techniques as to let students demonstrate their competitiveness abilities and qualifications are studied and criteria of objective assessment and expert advice are presented. The process of globalization has significant impact not only on industrial sphere all over the world but it has affected a lot of other human activities, and mining education is not an exception. Innovative determinant of mining education globalization obviously implies the need of integrating both technical and humanitarian subjects while training prospective experts. Combining different methods helps students develop their competitiveness abilities estimated highly in the coal mining labor market. The important methods of forming graduates’ readiness to compete in coal mining industry activate the linguistic representation of different aspects of employment by means of pedagogic techniques within humanitarian disciplines. The main stages of the comprehensive method named assessment-centre are also shown. So, developing students’ competitiveness ability for successful employment in the sphere of coal mining industry includes both theoretical and practical training to provide effective information searching for vacancies and distributing information about themselves as applicants as well as successful job interview in coal mining region.