摘要：Employment of graduates of higher educational institutions (HEIs) is an important task worldwide.
The main problems of employment are due to the existing discrepancy between the education received
by graduates and the needs of business environment. The modern world should focus on the
formation of graduates’ competencies in accordance with the demands of employers, which will provide
greater access to practical skills for students throughout the entire period of university studies.
The purpose of the article is the differentiation of employers, analysis of their needs for graduates
of economic specialties, readiness for partnership with HEIs. A survey of experts among employers
and HEI professors allowed us to reveal the advantages of their social and professional partnerships
and possible problems hampering the process of forming partnership relations. Discriminant
analysis became the basis for classifying employers by the degree of their readiness to cooperate
with HEIs. Three groups were employers are singled out: “business-focused”, “optimists” and
“flagships”. Analysis of employers, taking into account their readiness to form partnership relations
with HEIs, will contrib-ute to improving the quality of training personnel in business structures and
HEIs.
关键词：differentiation of employers; partnership relationship; discriminant
analysis; graduates of economic HEIs; competencies
