This article analyzes the possibilities of educational work in the development of key competencies, in particular managerial skills, students in vocational training at the university. It is urgent and important to develop the managerial skills of the student, since a high level of the required skills will allow the individual to achieve success in life and spatial areas, as well as maintain and strengthen psychological health. Adapted effective forms of spiritual and moral education of university students in the process of developing their managerial skills were cited as an example. The results of the questionnaire determined the hierarchy of understandable and performed functions by university teachers, such as educational, teaching, methodological, research, organizational and managerial. Of the 5 main proposed functions of a university teacher, educational activity was the lowest level, which is the main means of forming students' core competencies.