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Penka Shishmanova
The Electronic Form of Distance Learning – a Modern Approach to Improve Vocational Training
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The rapid development of modern economies and the dynamic changes in the labour market require continuous updating of the skills of staff. This brings to the fore continuing vocational training as part of the concept of lifelong learning. The electronic form of distance learning is a viable opportunity for maintaining and improvement of the professional skills of staff. Its significance has been growing given the fact that it creates conditions for acquiring new knowledge and skills without discontinuing work and family commitments. As an example of good practice in this respect, we have presented the training in Operational Accounting at the CPT at the Academy of Economics - Svishtov.
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Natalia F. Altukhova, Elena V. Vasileva
Internet-Entrepreneurship in Russia and the New Forms of Training Young Entrepreneurs
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The article considers features of development of startups in Russia. Department of Business Informatics Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation teaches undergraduate and graduate students the basics of entrepreneurship on the Internet from 2015. Developed author's techniques of training of young entrepreneurs based on the use of technology design thinking. The authors use the example of a business game, which uses design thinking and Lean Startup.
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Elka Tsoneva
Youth Unemployment in Bulgaria - Economic and Social Problems
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Unemployment in Bulgaria is becoming a significant scales being a general problem of the society. The so-called ”risk-groups” are particularly affected. Young are the significant group of people that are not in appropriate level on the labor market. The reasons for this condition are the education which does not conform to the needs of the labor market, the difficulties of starting the first job lower pay and searching for better realization abroad after graduation. Young people are social group which represents the near future of the society. They are the most valuable treasure because of their skills, capabilities and intellectual potential are worth for our country. Exactly for this reasons the country and its government social politic should play a main role in caring of this part of the society. General prerequisite for surviving of the society as an organization is the reproduction of the human recourse and so the change of generation themselves.
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Agop Sarkisyan
Training Higher Educated Bulgarian Specialists in Information Security
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The article is dedicated to the matters related to the preparation of professionals with higher education degrees in the field of the computer technologies security. An analysis is made of the possibilities for such an education in Bulgaria and its different forms. Outlined are the problems which could be met in such training. In the end of the work a conclusion is made, that practically it is better to organize such an education as a master degree, t. e. as a superstructure on the Bachelor degree connected to the computer technologies.
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Margarita Atanassova
Organisational Support for Career Development- Monitoring and Analysis
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The organizational support for career development is a traditional part of the motivationàl package for attracting and retaining targeted professionals. Periodic monitoring (through appropriate and accessible tools) of organizational support for career development is a valuable source of information for decision-making to further improve the activities in this field. The main objective of this article is to present a methodological tool for systematic monitoring and analysis of organizational support for career development and the results of the first stage of its approbation. In the first part of the article, key management activities and practices for organizational support for career development are systematized on the basis of a wide range of research in this field. In the second part of the paper are presented the content characteristics of the methodological tools for systematic monitotring and analysis of the organizational support for the career development and the first stage of its approbation.
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Galina Sillaste
Training of New Economic Intelligentsia as a Factor of Economic Restructuring
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Zornitsa Petkova
Application of Competency-Based Approach to Customs Control Training
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In recent years, the competency-based approach has become especially popular in the field of human resource management in all social spheres. This approach is fundamental in today’s higher education and guarantees the high quality of training. To be successful in the dynamically changing environment, young graduates need a wide range of competences. The paper corroborates the advantages of applying the competency-based approach to the training of students in customs control, which provides them with the general and specific competencies they need as customs administration officers.
This paper aims to investigate the theoretical aspects of the competency-based approach in order to corroborate the need of its application in the training of students in Customs Control in order to provide them with the general and specific competencies required by the customs administration. In order to achieve this goal, the author has set the following objectives:
- to define the characteristics of the competency-based approach and the specific usage of the terms “competence” and “competency”;
- to identifies the possibilities for applying the competency-based approach in the training in Customs Control;
- to develop and approbate a competency-based model in the course of Customs Control;
- to analyze the results achieved with the competency-based model in the course of Customs Control.
The paper proves the thesis that the competency-based approach applied to the learning process in the course of Customs Control provides opportunities for training competitive specialists who meet the requirements in this field.
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Galina Chipriyanova
Specificity of The Digitalization of the Training in Accounting, Bachelor’s Degree
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A key commitment in digitalization is the integration of digital technologies in existing learning processes to add more value to the educational product. The digitalization of accounting training favors its development as a process based on meaningful learning activities that take place in an interactive environment and on specific work situations about accounting practice.
Special attention is paid to determining internal factors for the success of this process, such as the presence of strong leadership, defined strategic goals of digitalization, creation of new working models and finding the right digital tools.
Three main options for further digitalization of accounting training are presented as in parallel the research analyzes the possibilities of the applicable digital tools.
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Milka Bakyrdzhieva
Humor - a Means of Efficient Business Communication. Age, Gender and Cultural Differences
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Humour is considered a means for efficient business communication and a factor for successful business. It relieves the tension and stress, „breaks the ice”, leads to creative decisions, conveys inconvenient truths as skillful jokes, wins sympathy and trust when the jokes are directod to the speaker, „aikido”, etc. Everybody can learn how to joke. This requires some knowledge on the essence of humour, the main types of humour, the importance of humour, and especially on the existing age, gender, and cultural differences. With such knowledge and appropriate trainnig everybody shall know when, where, and how to use his sense of humour.
