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EMPLOYEES ' CAREER COMPETENCE FOR CAREER SUCCESS: ASPECT OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN TOURISM SECTOR
Vilija Bite Fominiene, Kristina Mejeryte-Narkeviciene, Malgorzata Wozniewicz-Dobrzynska

ABSTRACT. In the modern business world, career competences manifested by tourism professionals could help them cope with the problems arising from individual career ambitions and challenges in the labour market. However, new professionals, joining the labour market often do not possess skills ensuring career competences. Opinions of employers and employees differ on this issue. Thus, it becomes essential to interpret attitudes of both objects and subjects of human resources management to new employees ' career competences as an assumption for their successful career. This research aims to evaluate career competences of new employees in tourism sector in regards to their employers. The research results disclose what skills newly recruited tourism professionals possess, and what skills employers desire to find in employees ' effective communication and self-cognition factors. The research unfolds what human resources career competences skills occur as the most significant for the employers .

KEYWORDS: tourism sector, career, career competence, human resources.

JEL classification: L83, I23, M12.