“开拓创新”教育理念对高校及职业技术学院的人才培养起到了重要的指导作用。独立学院英语专业以培养应用型人才为己任,注重语言技能训练,但缺乏专业素质培养,忽视了对学生实际应用和创新能力的锻炼,不能满足企业对人才的实际需求。阐述了独立学院英语专业学生核心能力的定位和培养对提高学生就业竞争力的重要性,并明确指出提高方案,主要包括:英语专业科学理论课程体系的建立;相配套的实践性环节内容的制定;学生创新能力的培养。 “Pioneering and innovative ” educational philosophy has played an important guiding role in personnel training in colleges and vocational technical colleges. The English majors in Independent College take the responsibility of cultivating applied talents as their responsibility, pay attention to the training of language skills, but they lack the training of professional qualifications, neglect their practical application and innovative ability, and can not meet the actual demand of talents. This paper expounds the importance of positioning and training core competence of independent college English majors in improving students ’employment competitiveness. It also points out clearly the solutions to be improved, including: setting up the course system of English majors’ scientific theories; formulating the contents of practical courses The cultivation of students’ innovative ability.