Forming of functional competencies of junior staff of the state border guard service of Ukraine

Abstract

The article describes the characteristics and description of the peculiarities of functional competencies formation of junior staff of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGSU) in the process of basic and advanced training during education at the Main Training Center of SBGSU staff. Relevant competencies include the basic competencies required for the all staff of junior border guards and the additional functional competencies required to perform the duties in each individual position. The future list of functional competencies includes their definition for each SBGSU position. As they form the basis for promotion, they must be interconnected in such a way that the assessment provides a vision of how well the border guarder will meet the competences in another equivalent or senior position.
It can be argued that a competent approach in the training of SBGSU junior staff provides the necessary level of readiness to perform duties in the units of state border protection. Functional competencies are formed and improved throughout the professional life of a serviceman. The functional competencies formation of the SBGSU junior staff, occurs during a specific educational process at the Main Center of Personnel Training of the SBGSU in the process of studying the cycle of general and military-special educational disciplines, as well as during extracurricular time under the guidance of teachers and commanders in specific specialties. For the formation of functional competences of the SBGSU junior staff in the process of training in the specialties, it is important to determine the content of training in each discipline (in particular, in the cycle of military and special subjects), taking into account the description of these competencies, features of their formation and indicators to evaluate each border guarder within every such competence, based on principles of expediency, science and systematicity.