The article examines the processes of professional adaptation of graduates of specialized universities in the labor market of the service sector. Based on the analysis of core competency orientation of the service sector´s activities it is concluded that more meaningful and effective for successful professional activities of graduates in the service sector is not fragmented knowledge but generalized competences, manifested in the ability to solve social, professional and life goals. The main features of professional activities of the service sector are related to the availability of the necessary professional functions, the significance of which is that the professional activities of the service sector are carried out in direct contact with the consumer. This implies the need to make the formation of knowledge, abilities, and features of training in the service sector initially humanistic and socially significant orientation. To solve the problem of effective professional adaptation of graduates in areas of training of the service sector defined are the following basic vectors of professional education: the integration of the national high school in the international educational space, ensuring the close connection of the education system and the labor market, the creation of conditions for effective interaction with employers and professional communities. The paper defines the nature and significance of the competency approach, allowing to objectively assess the suitability of each graduate to future activities (whether work or further education), as well as to develop clear criteria for the quality of these activities, allowing organizations to implement targeted educational training for graduates to meet the requirements of the employer. In the same context, the competence model is defined as the system of requirements for the training of graduates to specific educational level and profile of the educational program.

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The present article presents the complex issues associated with social-partnerships in the field of specialized tourism education. In particular, the conclusion which is based on the analysis of educational programs of different levels and the opinions of experts and specialists in the field of tourism, showed the insufficient level of development of social partnership, which is reflected in the existing problems in specialized tourism education: lack of practical orientation of education, the correspondence between the competence characteristics of graduates of educational institutions of tourism profile and the needs of the labour market, the mismatch between the quantitative indicators of the labour market needs and graduates of educational institutions in terms of levels of education. The study also identified the problem of incomplete educational continuity in some areas of tourism education, which definitely has a negative impact on opportunities for social and academic mobility of students. As a result of identified problems we developed the content of the various activities in the context of social partnership, which is regarded as one of the most promising approaches for solving the existing problems of specialist education. The proposed interpretation of the activities in the context of social partnership in professional tourism education will be conductive to the level of satisfaction of employers with the results of the educational activities of the institutions; balanced professional qualification recruitment in the tourism industry, as well as the achievement of the best indicators of the quality of education and competitiveness of Russian education in the field of tourism.