There are marked out the issues of formation of higher school graduates’ competitiveness before their working career. Readiness for competitive behavior at the labour market is regarded as a professionally important quality that should be influenced in the course of professional education. There are represented the research results of graduates of the Romance and German Philology Faculty of the Voronezh State University. From the positions of the competence approach there is determined the training contents for future masters in the sphere of linguistic education.