This paper describes experience of teachers of Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute named after M. E. Evseviev in preparing students of philological department for professional activity with due regard for the demand on the modern job market. The authors intend to define and introduce into the educational process of the aforementioned university through supplementary education a method for enhancing professional mobility of philology students by developing their text handling skills as the foundation of the competence of the modern specialist whose success in professional career is driven by the quality of the produced texts. The research was carried out with reliance on the method of theoretical analysis of literature, questionnaire survey, observation and text analysis as the end product of text writing activity. The listeners of the supplementary education programs developed by the authors (Text Handling by the Corrector, Text Handling by the Secretary, Text Handling by the Journalist, Text Handling by the Tour Guide, etc.) obtained universal text perception, interpretation and creation skills where text is regarded as the end product of text handling process, along with special skills for ensuring appropriate genre and stylistic coloring of the text with account of the language structure specificity of genres relevant to a particular professional area. Such skills may enhance professional mobility of graduates of philology departments of pedagogical universities, and provide them an opportunity to achieve self-fulfillment in various professional areas where text handling is the core activity.
