The development of adults' entrepreneurial competence for their successful career

Key competences underlying lifelong learning are particularly important in the knowledge society as they may guarantee more flexibility in the labour market and better adjustment to the permanent change. Entrepreneurial competence is one of the fundamental components for human employability and self-employment, often in conjunction with the ability to create and maintain jobs for themselves and others. Development of key skills and competences, as well as entrepreneurial competence, presents by itself potentially effective measure in coping with the existing skills mismatches, which is not sufficiently analysed and considered in the current active labour market policies. The main research question: what is the role of the development of entrepreneurial competence in striving for employability and successful career? The aim of this paper is to identify the importance of entrepreneurial competence in job related activities: job search, keeping the job place, professional career. The object of the paper is the entrepreneurial competence of adults seeking employability and successful career.