The article highlights the world overview of the international movement Worldskills, which reveals the history of its origin in different countries. The article reveals and analyzes the WorldSkills movement, which is aimed at developing professional competencies among young professionals. The article considers its development in Kazakhstan and the main key points regarding the entry of the Republic of Kazakhstan into the Worldskills movement, where the system of organizing and holding regional and republican championships is being improved, partnership institutions and the expert community are developing. The authors emphasize that despite the fact that Kazakhstan joined the WorldSkills program in 2014 and became the 70th member of the WSI, in a short time Kazakhstani students have achieved good results at the world championships. The article notes that Kazakhstan has excellent performance at the world championships and plans its development through a demonstration exam within the framework of the Zhas Maman project, as well as the training of certified experts. The main significance and value of this movement is also highlighted, which allows for a qualitative examination of the preparedness of graduates of professional educational organizations, aimed at the formation of mechanisms for the professional orientation of young people, training of the profession of the future aimed at high-tech industries. The authors analyzed and summarized the summary data of an online survey organized by the OECD, where the respondents of the survey were representatives of young people aged 18-24 from 19 countries. The main methods of the presented article are analytical-synthetic and comparative methods of scientific-theoretical and methodological literature, as well as information sources